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One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.: David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)
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A Hospital is no place to be sick.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.: Simone de Beauvoir
Never marry but for love; but see that thou lovest what is lovely.: William Penn (1644 - 1718)
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Give all to love; obey thy heart.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
I’m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I’m discovering that things were never in my hands.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 2, 2003
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.: T. Campbell and Gisele Lagace, Penny and Aggie, 09-12-05
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We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Stones of Venice, 1880
Ninety percent of everything is crap.: Theodore Sturgeon (1918 - 1985)
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
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I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
The gods too are fond of a joke.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.': Sue Halpern, O Magazine, September 2003
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.: Pancho Villa (1877 - 1923), last words
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.: John Wanamaker (1838 - 1922)
I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997