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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.: Gail Pool
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.: Phyllis Diller
A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?: Kanye West, Rolling Stone, 2006
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Live forever or die in the attempt.: Joseph Heller (1923 - 1999), Catch 22
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.: Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727)
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How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children: Lewis B. Frumkes, Book Title (1983)
Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.: General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
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While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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You don't get to pick your own nickname. They've gotta give you one. It's like we're all tryin' to make pets out of each other and we're not comfortable unless we get to name 'em.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 03-26-08
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.: Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.: Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
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If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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Feelings are really your GPS system for life. When your supposed to do something, or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings… As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become.: Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC), Dhammapada
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)