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Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go out in the ocean.: Christopher Reeve
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
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There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.: P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ), Parliament of Whores (1991)
That was the worst part about having cancer, sometimes: The physical evidence of disease separates you from other people.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.: John Irving (1942 - )
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Now I understand what exhaustion is. It’s not just a code word for heroin addiction. People don’t teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it’s something I’d never had to handle, because I’d been rejected for so long.: Felicia Day, The Washington Post, 04-03-12
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Mighty hard to tell the people you love you're a failure.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 11-28-07
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.: Joan D. Vinge, Catspaw
We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who don’t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if you’re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is what’s important.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHATON dot NET, 12-07-13
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.: Ward Cleaver
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
I learned an important lesson in the art of debate. Present your argument clearly, arm yourself with cutting wit and of course, bob and weave!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.: Martin Mull (1943 - )
If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Malheureux'
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Sometimes being a good friend means being harsh.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, harness your power to your passion. Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart, and success will come to you.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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