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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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A friend is a second self.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "You Never Can Tell" (1898), act I
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Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.: Franklin P. Jones, Saturday Evening Post, November 29, 1953
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All appears to change when we change.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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What happens when the future has come and gone?: Robert Half
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If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.: Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
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Help others get ahead. You will always stand taller with someone else on your shoulders.: Bob Moawad
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.: Ann Richards
In a mad world only the mad are sane.: Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998)
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)
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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.: Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)