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Nothing fails like success.: Gerald Nachman
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All general statements are false.: Unknown, The Ultimate Law
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.: William G. McAdoo (1863 - 1941)
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It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.: Pema Chodron
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It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
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I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.: Alexander Humboldt (1769 - 1859)
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), "Catch-22"
Indecision may or may not be my problem.: Jimmy Buffett
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.: Roy M. Goodman
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Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.: Leo Rosten (1908 - )
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.: Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904 - 1991)
Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 1 Ignore Everybody, 08-22-04
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.: Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973), address to the nation, November 28, 1963
Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.: Ernie Kovacs
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773), Letters to His Son, 1746, published 1774
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
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