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I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.: Bethania McKenstry
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Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.: Spanish Proverb
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One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.: Hannah More
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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.: James A. Garfield (1831 - 1881)
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It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), BusinessWeek Online, Oct. 12, 2004
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 11-29-2006
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.: Donald Trump (1946 - ), "Trump: Art of the Deal"
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Person to person, moment to moment, as we love, we change the world.: Samahria Lyte Kaufman
In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.: Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.: Charles DuBois
We're not talking about historical accuracy, we're talking about art. I've set in motion a geometric inevitability. If I start chiseling there, chipping here, the whole form is compromised.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Family Feud, 1993
You can call it the 'Perfect Moment' when the universe aligns and the music in your head actually matches the music outside and all is well.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only, 04-18-2006
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.: Ken Olsen (1926 - ), President, Digital Equipment, 1977
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.: Aleister Crowley (1875 - 1947)
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