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The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898), Alice in Wonderland
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Doing nothing is very hard to do ... you never know when you're finished.: Leslie Nielsen (1926 - )
You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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The crowd gives the leader new strength.: Evenius
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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.: Christopher Lasch
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Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.: J. G. C. Brainard
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How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.: Christina Baldwin
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
It's always been about the experience of life and of not being passive. If something so excites my curiosty, I want to go there, be a part of whatever it is that's either pushing me or pulling me toward it. That desire for experience has made me very rich in life experience.: Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 04-12-2006
Success only hurts the first time.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 04-01-2006
Computer dating is fine, if you’re a computer.: Rita Mae Brown
Fitness - If it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body.: Cher (1946 - )
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.: Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
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...myopia. He was nearsighted. The future lay before him, inevitable but invisible.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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