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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHEATON dot NET, 12-16-2013
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Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.: Andre Agassi (1970 - ), on "Charlie Rose"
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.: Walter Lippmann (1889 - 1974)
By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.: Grenville Kleiser
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Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that make it.: Franklin P. Jones
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.: Hobart Brown
Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.: Mike Myers
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.: Mary Stewart
I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.: Susan Glaspell, The Visioning, 1911
The trouble with jogging is that, by the time you realize you're not in shape for it, it's too far to walk back.: Franklin P. Jones
The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.: Ruth Benedict (1887 - 1948)
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.: Thich Nhat Hanh
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I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor.: Roger Moore (1927 - )
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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.: Rita Mae Brown