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Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.: Andre Agassi (1970 - ), on "Charlie Rose"
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.: Bertha Calloway
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, January 05, 2004
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A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment.: Willis Player
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Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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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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I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.: E. V. Lucas
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.: Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002
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In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), Pre-Raphaelitism, 1850
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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.: Erica Jong
The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.: Hortense Calisher
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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims: Quotation and Originality, 1876
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Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
I think it would be worse to expect nothing than to be disappointed.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908