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Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC), 'Rhesus'
So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.': Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
Anyone can lose a few pounds, but not everyone has the tools to stick with it.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.: William Safire (1929 - )
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He can make me love something just by showing me the energy with which he loves it.: Heather Armstrong, Dooce Plugs In, 07-12-06
Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.: Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
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Live neither in the past nor in the future, but let each day's work absorb your entire energies, and satisfy your widest ambition.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), to his students
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Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.: W. N. Taylor
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.: George Burns (1896 - 1996)
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880), 'Mr. Gilfil's Love Story,' Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857
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Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.: William Goldman, "The Princess Bride"
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Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?: Budd Schulberg, O Magazine, November 2003
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You have to be careful who you let define your good.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.': Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 05-25-06
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.: Anna Freud (1895 - 1982)
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Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)