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If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.: Ausonius
Get on stage. A lot. Try stuff. Make your best stab and keep stabbing. If it's there in your heart, it will eventually find its way out. Or you will give up and have a prudent, contented life doing something else.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.: Thomas Secker
Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.: Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.: e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.: Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
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Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.: Clive Barnes
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I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to surrender and then the sort I had which made me take risks and make plans.: Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009
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Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.: Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
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The petty economies of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor.: William Feather (1908 - 1976)
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.: Jim Morrison (1943 - 1971), No One Here Gets Out Alive
Life is something that everyone should try at least once.: Henry J. Tillman
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To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.: Graffito
There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.: Bono (1960 - ), Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
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