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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), The Social Contract, 1762
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.: Epicurus (341 BC - 270 BC)
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Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.: Unknown, The Ladies Repository, September 1874
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To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Do not listen to those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Energy is eternal delight.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
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Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.: Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)
Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse.: Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.: Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
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Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.: Edward Shepherd Mead
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There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Oh for a book and a shady nook...: John Wilson (1785 - 1854)
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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Fish Story, 1994
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Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.: David Sedaris, interview in Louisville Courier-Journal, June 5, 2005
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You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the moment we have it we spend it, sometimes well, sometimes ill, but we spend it. Money is nothing to us; it's merely the symbol of success. We are the greatest idealists in the world; I happen to think that we've set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence
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Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.: Anonymous