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True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
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John Hay (1838 - 1905), Distichs, latter 19th century
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office).
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Faith Popcorn, The Popcorn Report, 1991
Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
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W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
As you journey through life take a minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something.
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Hagar the Horrible
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
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Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.
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George Melton
The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.
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Louis C. K., Reddit, 2012
Do or do not. There is no try.
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Yoda, 'The Empire Strikes Back'
Little by little, one travels far.
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J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
It has all been very interesting.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762), last words, 1762
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.
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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
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Gracie Allen (1906 - 1964)
There's a rule in acting called, "Don't play the result." If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that's what you do in life: You don't play the result.
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Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), Good Housekeeping, June 2011
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.
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Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
It may make your blood boil and your mind may not be changed, but the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship. It is essential for our democracy.
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Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), to Archibald Stuart, 1791
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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