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I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.: David Letterman (1947 - )
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The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.: Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
Learning to live what you're born with is the process, the involvement, the making of a life.: Diane Wakoski
The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.: George Sheehan
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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.: Andrew S. Tanenbaum
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
We're all in this alone.: Lily Tomlin (1939 - )
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.: Robert Jackson
In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Higher Laws, 1854
In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.: Sir George Savile, 'Advice to a Daughter,' 1688
It's pretty clear now that what looked like it might have been some kind of counterculture is, in reality, just the plain old chaos of undifferentiated weirdness.: Jerry Garcia
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.: Dianne Houston, Take The Lead, 2006
Don't fall before you're pushed.: English Proverb
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Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.: Frantz Fanon
What children take from us, they give…We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.: Sonia Taitz, O Magazine, May 2003
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