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Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good…Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.
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Jay Leno (1950 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
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Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, 1928
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
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Sam Ewing
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts.
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Charles Rosin, Northern Exposure, Aurora Borealis, 1990
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
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Jean Houston
Maybe it was only a second of your time, but you need to treasure life, every second.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Things are only impossible until they're not.
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Jean-Luc Picard, 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'
People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.
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Howard Newton
Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
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G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
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John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
If at first you don't succeed try, try again. If you fail even after these attempts, perhaps your just stupid.
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Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
God help those who do not help themselves.
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Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
Sometimes a slow gradual approach does more good than a large gesture.
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Craig Newmark (1952 - ), Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.
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Anne-Sophie Swetchine, The Writings of Madame Swetchine, 1869
To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
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Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward trend.
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Endicott Peabody (1857 - 1944)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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