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When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.: Henry J. Kaiser (1882 - 1967)
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He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.: David Frost
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.: Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
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Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.: Tom Robbins (1936 - )
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Any time and energy you spend hating and being angry at your ex will ultimately take a toll on you without effecting any positive changes in your ex or your relationship.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.: A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.: E. F. Schumacher
If you think you can, you can. And if you think you can't, you're right.: Mary Kay Ash
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.: Spanish Proverb
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.: Marian Evans
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973), The Fellowship of the Ring
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.: Harold Wilson (1916 - 1995)
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We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)
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Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
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