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It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here. It's a wonderful life and I love it.: Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green And Other Things to Consider
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
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No human thing is of serious importance.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
My friends are my estate.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.: Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.: W. N. Taylor
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A motion to adjourn is always in order.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Lazarus Long: Time Enough For Love
In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.: David M. Ogilvy
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First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.: Martin Myers
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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.: George Moore
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I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.: Baltasar Gracian
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.: Horace Mann (1796 - 1859), address at Antioch College, 1859
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Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.: Sir Julian Huxley (1887 - 1975)
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On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club, 1996
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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