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The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.: Pat Conroy (1945 - )
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.: Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
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My mother buried three husbands, and two of them were just napping.: Rita Rudner
The days of the digital watch are numbered.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.: Tallulah Bankhead (1903 - 1968)
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.: Diane Ackerman
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He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.: Don Juan Manuel (1282 - 1349)
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There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.: Robert Byrne
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.: Rita Rudner
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.: Toni Morrison (1931 - )
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), What Is Man? (1906)
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
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