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We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth having, they are not to be cheaply won, but exact their dues of work and self-denial, anxiety and discouragement.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911)
In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.: Kathy Sierra, Creating Passionate Users, 07-22-06
[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.: Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
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Life is a zoo in a jungle.: Peter De Vries
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What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985
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Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.: Les Brown, Communication Bulletin for Managers & Supervisors, June 2004
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.: John Gunther (1901 - 1970)
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Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.: Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900), 'Eleventh Study,' Backlog Studies, 1873
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Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.: W.E.B. Du Bois, Speech at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, August 1906
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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
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Fostering a spirit of cooperation with your ex means laying down your weapons in the war of divorce in order to protect your children.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.: Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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No matter how old you are, there's always something good to look forward to.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 01-04-04
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Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.: Ashley Montague
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