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One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others.: Edward L. Flom
One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.: G. E. Lessing (1729 - 1781)
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.: William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997)
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)
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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Work is not always required... there is such a thing as sacred idleness, the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.: George McDonald
To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.: Moliere (1622 - 1673)
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The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Did I ever tell you about a nasty habit that flight attendants pick up on the job? We learn to always keep smiling, even when we're out of Bloody Mary Mix.: Eric Wald, View From The Top, 2003
To be great is to be misunderstood.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), An Essay on Self-Reliance
Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.: Christopher Reeve
To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.: Ellen DeGeneres
If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.: Al Capp (1909 - 1979)
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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.: Emile Chartier
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When people think the world of you, be careful with them.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho Blog, 09-26-05
Sometimes people are layered like that. There's something totally different underneath than what's on the surface. But sometimes, there's a third, even deeper level, and that one is the same as the top surface one. Like with pie.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)