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A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
- More quotations on: [Joy]
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.: Unknown
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No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don’t work out.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
- More quotations on: [Beauty]
So little time and so little to do.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Life is too short for traffic.: Dan Bellack
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What I am actually saying is that we need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.: Shakti Gawain
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A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.: Granville Hicks (1901 - 1982)
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.: Ken Olsen (1926 - ), President, Digital Equipment, 1977
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If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.: Ausonius
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.: Stephen Vizinczey, An Innocent Millionaire
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I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it.: Howard Newton
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
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I thought being an adult meant knowing what you believe, but that has not been my experience.: John Green (1977 - ), The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?: Dick Cavett (1936 - )
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - )
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Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.: Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)