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Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction - the things that constitute real success - is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile.: William Raspberry
Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
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
I was thinking about the universe wanting to be noticed, and how I had to notice it as best I could. I felt that I owed a debt to the universe that only my attention could repay, and also that I owed a debt to everybody who didn’t get to be a person anymore and everyone who hadn’t gotten to be a person yet.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Diluting your product to make it more 'commercial' will just make people like it less.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 21. Selling out is harder than it looks., 08-22-04
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-14-04
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
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Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.: Lawrence Bixby
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.: Mae West (1892 - 1980)
Only sick music makes money today.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Der Fall Wagner, Section 5
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The longest journey is the journey inward.: Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.: Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Cat Orgy, 1999
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