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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not lived at all. In which case, you've failed by default.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
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Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.: John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.: Arab Proverb
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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.: Herman Wouk (1915 - )
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984), The Little Foxes, 1939
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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.: Lady Violet Bonham Carter (1887 - 1969)
Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.: J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999
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Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.: Frederick Langbridge (1849 - 1923)
The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )
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You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?": George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.: Audre Lorde
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), "Eleonora"
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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
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You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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