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Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.: Noela Evans
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.: Christopher Reeve, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996
No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.: Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
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If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Our patience will achieve more than our force.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)
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It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.: P. D. James
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Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.: Ecclesiastes
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Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up.: David Shore, House M.D., DNR, 2004
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), The Open Door (1957)
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), New York Times, October 4, 1953
You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.: Lady Violet Bonham Carter (1887 - 1969)
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 41
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