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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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Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995), Esar's Comic Dictionary
They say dreams are the windows of the soul--take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), The Joy of Children, 1964
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Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work. That's what I have to say. The second is only a part of the first.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
Don't give advice. It will come back and bite you in the [butt]. Don't take anyone's advice. So, my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine.: Ellen DeGeneres, Tulane Commencement Speech, 2009
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A poem is no place for an idea.: Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937), Country Town Sayings, 1911
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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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No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.: Jascha Heifetz (1901 - 1987)
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.: Emo Phillips
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Oppression can only survive through silence.: Carmen de Monteflores
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.: Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.: Clive James
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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.: David M. Ogilvy
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.: Thich Nhat Hanh
My computer beat me at chess... so I beat it at kickboxing.: Demetri Martin
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Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.: Dr. David M. Burns
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