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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.: William James (1842 - 1910)
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.: Martina Navratilova (1956 - )
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If you bow at all, bow low.: Chinese Proverb
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.: Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
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Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.: Unknown
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Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.: Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)
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Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.: Sylvia Robinson
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
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If you can solve your problem, then what is the need of worrying? If you cannot solve it, then what is the use of worrying?: Shantideva
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Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
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The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.: William James (1842 - 1910)
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?: Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.: Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
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The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.: Burt Bacharach (1928 - )
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.: George Iles
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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