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If at first you don't succeed try, try again. If you fail even after these attempts, perhaps your just stupid.: Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994
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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.: Hesiod (~800 BC), Works and Days
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.: Henrik Tikkanen
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Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.: R. D. Hitchcock
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Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!: Tommy Smothers
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.: Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), The Physiology of Taste, 1825
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Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: It's good to be silly at the right moment.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
It's very important that we start creating new content again. We can only build on nostalgia so much before we have nothing left to build on.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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We did not start as friends, but as people who respected and admired each other. Crucial, absolutely crucial for a partnership. As soon as we could afford it, we ceased sharing lodgings. Equally crucial.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Election Night Speech in Chicago, 11-04-08
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.: Isabelle Eberhardt
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War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
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It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.: Dr. Rob Gilbert
Brains, like hearts, go where they are appreciated.: Robert S. McNamara (1916 - ), former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.: Peter Marshall, Senate chaplain, prayer offered at the opening of the session, April 18, 1947
One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher.com weblog, September 9, 2003