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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
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Dr. David M. Burns
Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside.
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Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 13, 08-22-04
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.
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Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
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Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.
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Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972)
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
The greater man the greater courtesy.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.
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Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.
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Clint Eastwood (1930 - )
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
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Tom Nolan, in The Wall Street Journal
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
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Bradley's Bromide
There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.
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Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
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Chinese Proverb
Life is a long lesson in humility.
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James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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