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Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.: Edith Wharton (1862 - 1937)
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.: Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.: Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.: Bill Kelly, Blast from the Past, 1999
I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch.: Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
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You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.: John Viscount Morley
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.: Carl Becker
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 15, 08-22-04
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.: Martha Grimes
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.: Fritz Kunkel
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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.: Wally Lamb
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), Everybody's Autobiography, 1937
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.: Mary MacCracken
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