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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.: John Keats (1795 - 1821)
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Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.: Ralph W. Sockman
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I think it's always a good move to listen to that inner voice, if it doesn't lead to a crime.: Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
Dare to be yourself.: Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)
I didn't go to college at all, any college, and I'm not saying you wasted your time or money, but look at me, I'm a huge celebrity.: Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
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Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.: Lyman Beecher (1775 - 1863)
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.: Jewish Proverb
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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.: Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.: Jimmy Breslin
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It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.: Philip Adams
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Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.: Christopher Reeve
We can only learn to love by loving.: Iris Murdoch (1919 - 1999), O Magazine, February 2004
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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3
It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), cartoonist, "Calvin and Hobbes"
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The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully.: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC), 300 B.C.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.: Philip Gold, Doctors: Jokes, Quotes and Anecdotes 2005 Calendar