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Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Creators Syndicate
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I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.: Carlos A. Urbizo
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.: David H. Comins
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.: Harper Lee (1926 - ), To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960
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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
Do not consider painful what is good for you.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.: Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), What the Dead Men Say, 1954
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To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.: Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976
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Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), to Archibald Stuart, 1791
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I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.: Richard Greenberg, NY Times Magazine, 03-26-2006
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Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.: E. W. Dijkstra
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.: Scott Adams (1957 - ), 'The Dilbert Principle'
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I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth.": Quincy Jones, Victory of the Spirit
What I learned from Weight Watchers is that food was meant to be used as fuel for our bodies. If we are using it for any other reasons, it is time to take a step back and ask ourselves what’s up.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.: Mel Brooks (1926 - )
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