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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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I have witnessed the softening of the hardest of hearts by a simple smile.: Goldie Hawn (1945 - )
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.: John H. Patterson
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I never put on a pair of shoes until I've worn them at least five years.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.: Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.: Peter McArthur
When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.: Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)
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Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act III, sc. 1
Treasure the love you have received above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen.: Bob Edwards
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You've got your phenomenon on one hand. Concrete and knowable. On the other hand you've got the incomprehensible. You call it God, but to me, God or no, it remains just that, the unknowable.: Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, A Wing and a Prayer, 1994
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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.: Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )
Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human.: Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
I always like a good math solution to any love problem.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Take Me Out To The Ballgame, 1999
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