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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.: Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
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If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough: Mario Andretti (1940 - )
You live and learn. At any rate, you live.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Life of Boerhaave
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.: Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
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Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after all, and if thee continually talks of thyself as being old, thee may perhaps bring on some of the infirmities of age. At least I would not risk it if I were thee.: Hannah Whitall Smith, 1907
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.: Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
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You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.: James A. Froude (1818 - 1894)
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.: Hadewijch of Antwerp
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
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People who are 'ready' give off a different vibe than people who aren't. Animals can smell fear; maybe that's it. The minute you become ready is the the minute you stop dreaming. Suddenly it's no longer about 'becoming'. Suddenly it's about 'doing'.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 28. Power is never given. Power is taken., 08-22-04
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 17. Merit can be bought. Passion can't. , 08-22-04
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
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In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.: Rita Rudner
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By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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