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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 5
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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.': Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.: Nicole Kidman, in The Scotsman
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Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, Conclusion, 1854
There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters.: Alice Thomas Ellis
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, September 2002
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You don’t need to win every medal to be successful.: Jason Fried, Signal Vs. Noise, 08-22-06
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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Feel the fear and do it anyway.: Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway, 1988
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The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.: Saki (1870 - 1916)
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America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
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If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.: John Cleese (1939 - )
A little drama wins more friends than boring.: Scott Westerfeld, Midnighters: The Secret Hour, 2004
Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are.: David Russell, I Heart Huckabee's
It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
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To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
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Health food makes me sick.: Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
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Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)