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Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.: Robert Service (1874 - 1958)
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
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Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.: Unknown
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
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Things are only impossible until they're not.: Jean-Luc Picard, 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'
The love of truth lies at the root of much humor.: Robertson Davies
'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college.: George Ade (1866 - 1944), "The Steel Box", 1898
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People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.: Unknown
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.: Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006)
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[M]aybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.: Michelle Burford, O Magazine, 2003
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Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph?: Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.: Doug Larson
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Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.: Anne-Sophie Swetchine, The Writings of Madame Swetchine, 1869
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.: Al Capone (1899 - 1947)
The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.: J. Arthur Thomson
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.: Alice Walker (1944 - ), O Magazine, May 2003
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