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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.: John Green, Vlogbrothers, Why Does Congress Suck?, 01-01-13
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.: Ulysses S. Grant (1822 - 1885)
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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
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Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.: Frances Moore Lappe, O Magazine, May 2004
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.: Stephen King (1947 - )
The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.: Alan Patrick Herbert
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Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.: Max Frisch
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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.: Greek Proverb
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Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.: William Hale White
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941
Even writers need relief from words.: Sarah Vowell, O Magazine, March 2009
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.: Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
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The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.: Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
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The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble.: Ellen DeGeneres
Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)