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We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.: Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.: Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
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Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.: Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), quoted by Lorne A. Adrain in 'The Most Important Thing I Know'
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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.: Hesiod (~800 BC), Works and Days
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.: Abbie Hoffman (1936 - 1989)
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Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer; no disease that enough love will not heal; no door that enough love will not open.: Emmet Fox
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.: John Witherspoon (1723 - 1794)
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Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.: Anais Nin (1903 - 1977), The Diary of Anais Nin, volume 4, 1944-1947
Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue... as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself.: Viktor Frankl, Man's Search For Meaning
That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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My reason, the physician to my love, angry that his prescriptions are not kept, hath left me.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet CXLVII
In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
A Hospital is no place to be sick.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.: Jim Hightower, The New York Times, March 9, 1986
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