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Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.: Muriel Spark (1918 - )
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.: Bill Watterson (1958 - ), Calvin and Hobbes
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Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.: Jewish Proverb
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.: Frank Westheimer, Westheimers Discovery
Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this-that you are dreadfully like other people.: James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.: The laws of Manu
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
All general statements are false.: Unknown, The Ultimate Law
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
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The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.: Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999
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All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.: Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.: John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
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In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it.: Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907)
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The secret of being boring is to say everything.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)