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Drive thy business or it will drive thee.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.: Wayne Dyer
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.: John Atkinson
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.': Jack Handey (1949 - ), Deep Thoughts
No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off?: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
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Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.: Andy Gibb
People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.: Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 07-07-06
Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.: Frantz Fanon
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.: Marshall McLuhan (1911 - 1980)
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Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
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She had learned the self-deprecating ways of the woman who does not want to be thought hard and grasping, but her artifices could not always cover the nakedness of her need to excel.: Faith Sullivan, The Cape Ann, 1988
You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn't cost you much to do it. I'd rather apologize for something I didn't really care about and leave someone on Earth wishing me well.: John Scalzi, Old Man's War, 2005
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.: Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976
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People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.: Frederick Douglass (1817 - 1895)
I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher achievement.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Mirror Dance", 1994
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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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