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Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
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The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.: Mary Catherine Bateson
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.: Emo Phillips
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.: David Friedman
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.: Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.: Jim Horning
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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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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), on Shakespeare
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Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.: Colette (1873 - 1954), in New York World-Telegram and Sun, 1961
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.: Wilfred A. Peterson
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Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)