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Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.: Dorothy Sarnoff
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It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?: Ronnie Shakes
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.: Joseph Baretti, quoted in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
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Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com weblog, 10-09-04
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People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one.: Leo J. Burke
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Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.: Viktor Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure. These things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Address, 2005
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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it's boring, try it for four. If you still think it's boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth. Soon enough you'll find that it's really not boring at all.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.: Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
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Nothing ever goes away.: Barry Commoner (1917 - )
There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man's lawful prey.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), (attributed)
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.: Rita Rudner
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If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), letter to James Lewis, Jr., May 9, 1798
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)