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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
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
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
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Bill Cosby (1937 - )
Television is more interesting than people. If it were not, we would have people standing in the corners of our rooms.
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Alan Corenk
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.
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A. Lawrence Lowell (1856 - 1943)
The more you know, the less you need.
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Aboriginal Saying
Be a fountain, not a drain.
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Rex Hudler, quoted in 'Sports Illustrated'
Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.
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Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
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George W. Bush (1946 - ), Speech on May 17, 2002
Be not slow to visit the sick.
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Ecclesiastes
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
Who knew that dog saliva can mend a broken heart?
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Jennifer Neal, nakedjen, 07-22-08
Some relationships start with fights... But, usually only in romantic comedies. Life's not the movies.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, "A Civil Campaign", 1999
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
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John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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Saki (1870 - 1916)
Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
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Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
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Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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