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Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.: Mary Stewart
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.: Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
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The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.: Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
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An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.: Evelle J. Younger
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.: Unknown
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Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
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I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.: Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
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See, that's all you're thinking about, is winning. You're confirming your sense of self- worth through outward reward instead of through inner appreciation.: Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Gran Prix, 1994
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.: Wayne Gretzky (1961 - )
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.: Clare Booth Luce (1903 - 1987), in Reader's Digest, 1979
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Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.: Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Hello, I Love You, 1994
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Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.: Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
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No.: Amy Carter, (President Jimmy Carter's daughter) when asked by a reporter if she had any message for the children of America
If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 8, 08-22-04