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I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHEATON dot NET, 12-16-2013
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Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.: Jerry Garcia, (of the Grateful Dead)
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
I just never let anything bother me, man. I know myself really well. Nobody's opinion of me can shake my opinion of myself.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.: Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
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My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.: Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Journal of a Character, 1931
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It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now... with its aches and it pleasures... is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.: Pema Chodron
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Never have children, only grandchildren.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.: Gerry Spence, 'How to Argue and Win Every Time'
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If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.: Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973)
The beginning is always today.: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.: W. N. Taylor
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Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before.: Rita Rudner
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You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.: Rosalynn Carter (1927 - )
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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.: Gloria Swanson (1899 - 1983)
Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.: Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003
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