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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here. It's a wonderful life and I love it.
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Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green And Other Things to Consider
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.
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Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
No human thing is of serious importance.
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Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
My friends are my estate.
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Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.
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Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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W. N. Taylor
A motion to adjourn is always in order.
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Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Lazarus Long: Time Enough For Love
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.
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David M. Ogilvy
First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.
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Martin Myers
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
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George Moore
I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.
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Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.
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Baltasar Gracian
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
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Horace Mann (1796 - 1859), address at Antioch College, 1859
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.
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Sir Julian Huxley (1887 - 1975)
On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
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Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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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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