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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971), No One Here Gets Out Alive
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.: Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong.: Sir Colin Marshall
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind.: Marston Bates
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.: Vladimir Nabokov (1899 - 1977)
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Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.: John Wayne (1907 - 1979)
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?: Dolores Huerta
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The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Only the shallow know themselves.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, 1882
Storms make oaks take deeper root.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.: Amelia Burr
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.: Austin Phelps
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Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
He who hesitates is a damned fool.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
I learned an important lesson in the art of debate. Present your argument clearly, arm yourself with cutting wit and of course, bob and weave!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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