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No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book begins The rest is still unwritten: Natasha Bedingfield, Unwritten
I know a lot about cars. I can look at a car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.: Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973), address to the nation, November 28, 1963
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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A minute's success pays the failure of years.: Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
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That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.: The Belzer Rabbi
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.: Joseph Joubert
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Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 5, 08-22-04
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Everybody's Political What's What? (1944) ch. 30
Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it.: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971)
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989)
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.: Wally Lamb
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.: Gladys Bronwyn Stern
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night.": Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"
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When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)