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I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that force us to try harder, dig deeper and to discover gifts we never knew we had. To find the greatness that lies within each of us. So don't ever shy away from that endeavor. Don't stop adding to your body of work. I can promise that you will be the better for that continued effort as will be this nation that we all love.
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Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!
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Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
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Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
Nothing is more characteristic of a man than the mann in which he behaves toward fools.
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Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
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John Irving (1942 - )
Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange.
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Robin Morgan
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
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Elie Wiesel (1928 - )
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
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Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
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Candice Bergen (1946 - )
An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.
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Shakti Gawain
Trust one who has gone through it.
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Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), The Aeneid
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
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Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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Golda Meir (1898 - 1978)
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
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Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
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Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
Facts are stupid things.
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Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.
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Jim Beggs
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Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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