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The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
He not busy being born is busy dying.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
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Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.: David Hume (1711 - 1776)
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.: Gavin McDonald, Scottish Bicyclist, 04-15-2006
I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.: Arthur Hays Sulzberger
No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.: Sir Frederick G. Banting (1891 - 1941)
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An optimist is the human personification of spring.: Susan J. Bissonette
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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
You never find yourself until you face the truth.: Pearl Bailey (1918 - 1990)
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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There's some things that people don't admit because they don't like the way it sounds.: Cindy Chupack, Sex and the City, Plus One Is The Loneliest Number, 2002
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.: Patricia Russell-McCloud
All my possessions for a moment of time.: Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603)
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History never looks like history when you are living through it.: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002), quoted by Bill Moyers
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Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy.: Janet Long
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I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.: Latin Proverb
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Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
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