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He who hesitates is a damned fool.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.': Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)
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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.: John J. Plomp
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Walking is also an ambulation of mind.: Gretel Ehrlich
You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York Times Aug. 31 1924
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Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant stress. You shouldn't be bullied out of bed, just reminded that it's time to start your day.: Sharon Gold
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Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.: James Bryant Conant (1893 - 1978)
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.: Miriam Beard
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I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.: Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)
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Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.: Ellen Glasglow
Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.: Ben Stein
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What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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