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You just have to start putting one foot in front of the other, making an effort to get healthy every day.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Someone's boring me. I think it's me.: Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Rayner Heppenstall, Four Absentees (1960)
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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.: Michael McClary
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.: Rabbi Abraham Heschel
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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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Never give advice unless asked.: German Proverb
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Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder for what you want.: Robert Bringle, quoted in Redbook
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O, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act III, sc. 1
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III
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It is well to give when asked but it is better to give unasked, through understanding.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), 'On Giving,' The Prophet, 1923
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Pleasure is a by-product of doing something that is worth doing. Therefore, do not seek pleasure as such. Pleasure comes of seeking something else, and comes by the way.: A. Lawrence Lowell (1856 - 1943)
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.: Joey Adams
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
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There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.: Richard Rybolt
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I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.: Edward Chilton
Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.: Francis Marion (1732 - 1795)
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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.: Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964)
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I am a galley slave to pen and ink.: Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
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To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.: Michael Hanson
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