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The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.: Garth Brooks, Country Music
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.: Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 8, 08-22-04
You always second guess yourself. Just think of all the time you'd save if you just trusted yourself.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.: G. Gordon Liddy
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A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
He talked with more claret than clarity.: Susan Ertz
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.: John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
It was the misfortune of poetry to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.: Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC), 300 B.C.
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.: Charlize Theron, acceptance speech at Golden Globe Awards, 2004
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.: Poul Anderson (1926 - 2001)
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)