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It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The best of us must sometimes eat our words.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Mite Makes Right, 1994
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I started concentrating so hard on my vision that I lost sight.: Robin Green, Northern Exposure, Burning Down the House, 1992
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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.: Albanian Proverb
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Don't fall before you're pushed.: English Proverb
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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Hope is only the love of life.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.: Edward Shepherd Mead
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Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.: Mary O'Hara
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.: J. K. Rowling
While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
A problem isn’t a problem until it actually happens.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
There is no Them, there is only Us. Some of Us think this or some of Us think that, but we're all Us.: Lisa Williams, Us and Them: A Blog Conversation Survival Guide, SXSW 2006
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919)
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You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.: Ed Meese (1931 - ), on the Hinckley verdict