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Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.
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Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
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William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
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Steven Wright (1955 - )
If I make a record I love, then somebody will like it. Maybe not everybody, but that won't matter.
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Norah Jones, O Magazine, July 2003
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.
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John Lancaster Spalding
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
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James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958), The Silver Stallion, 1926
You always pass failure on the way to success.
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Mickey Rooney (1920 - )
I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
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Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
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Czech Proverb
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
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Dale Carnegie
I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
If you would marry suitably, marry your equal.
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Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.
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George Lucas (1944 - ), Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
It doesn't matter if people are interested. It's about you taking your stuff and shouting out into the void.
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Jadelr and Cristina Cordova, Chasing Windmills, 07-11-2006
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
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Jerry Seinfeld (1954 - )
Achievable goals are the first step to self improvement.
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J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
Life is like getting dropped off in the middle of the woods, and then year by year, gradually walking home.
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April Foiles
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
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Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
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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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