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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), quoted by Lorne A. Adrain in 'The Most Important Thing I Know'
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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.: Maya Angelou (1928 - )
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.: David Shore, House M.D., Three Stories, 2004
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Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.: John Barrymore (1882 - 1942)
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Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table", 1872
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Just because you love someone doesn't mean you have to be involved with them. Love is not a bandage to cover wounds.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, February 16, 2004
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Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.: Willie Shoemaker
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It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.: Katharine Butler Hathaway
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Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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The summer night is like a perfection of thought.: Wallace Stevens (1879 - 1955)
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Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.: Melody Beattie
When one admits that nothing is certain one must, I think, also admit that some things are much more nearly certain than others.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), "Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?", 1947
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I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, One, 2003
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.: Al Capone (1899 - 1947)
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.: King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)
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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.: Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.: Samuel McChord Crothers
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