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We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.: Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
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One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), in "Saving Milly" by Morton Kondrake
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition or achievement. Your qualifications are not your life.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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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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This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.: Hortense Calisher
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By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.: Charles Wadsworth
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It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.: Johnny Carson (1925 - 2005)
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Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.: Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society.: Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
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It's all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end.: Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 2003
I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.: Sallust (86 BC - 34 BC)
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Home is where the heart is, so your real home's in your chest.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
Your first appearance, he said to me, is the gauge by which you will be measured; try to manage that you may go beyond yourself in after times, but beware of ever doing less.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.: Derek Sivers, TED Talk: Weird, or just different? Nov 2009
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.: Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989)
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