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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.: Sam Ewing
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I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what’s right for me except me. I’m not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The only good ideas are the ones I can take credit for.: R. Stevens, Diesel Sweeties, 11-13-06
Praise youth and it will prosper.: Irish Proverb
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.: Steven Weinberg (1933 - )
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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.: Hagar the Horrible
You give my regards to St. Peter, or whoever has his job, but in Hell.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.: Nora Ephron
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817)
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), (attributed)
Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.: David Zucker (1947 - )
A self that is only differentiated - not integrated - may attain great individual accomplishments, but risks being mired in self-centered egotism. By the same token, a person who self is based exclusively on integration will be well connected and secure, but lack autonomous individuality. Only when a person invests equal amounts of psychic energy in these two processes and avoids both selfishness and conformity is the self likely to relect complexity.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872
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There is no silver bullet and frankly you probably don’t need one. It is far more important to be able to find the right kind of gun, be able to load the gun … and perhaps most importantly, be able to figure out where the werewolf is.: Matthew Oliphant, Useability Works, 03-22-2006
Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.: Kay Ryan
Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), On Friendship, 44 B.C.
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We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Nomination Acceptance Speech, 08-28-08
So little time and so little to do.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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