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Here's a message to the new borns, waiting to breathe: if you believe then you can achieve. Just look at me, against all odds 'though life is hard, we carry on, livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on. To all the seeds that follow me- protect your essence, born with less, but you still precious.: Tupac Shakur, Smile
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.: Colin Powell (1937 - )
A smiling face is half the meal.: Latvian Proverb
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.: Neil Gaiman, Sandman
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5
A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.: Alfred E. Wiggam
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952
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If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don't like you.: Tina Fey, Golden Globes Acceptance Speech, 2009
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And that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle.: Stan Dunn
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children: Lewis B. Frumkes, Book Title (1983)
I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then exploring your inner life or unconscious at night.: Margery Cuyler
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.: Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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Be gentle with the young.: Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
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Feel the fear and do it anyway.: Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, 1988
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