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To succeed is nothing, it's an accident. but to feel no doubts about oneself is something very different: it is character.: Marie Leneru, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.: Mary Pickford (1893 - 1979)
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The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.: Arthur Miller (1915 - 2005), Tragedy and the Common Man
To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.: Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - )
I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Election Night Speech in Chicago, 11-04-08
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
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The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), O Magazine, May 2003
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Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.: Ann Richards
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)
I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.: Gerry Spence, 'How to Argue and Win Every Time'
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Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.: Dorothy Draper
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I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.: Anonymous, French slogan
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.: Abraham Maslow (1908 - 1970)
The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992
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I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985)
An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.: Evelle J. Younger
I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.: Rosie O'Donnell, Today Show interview, 04-08-08
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Autobiography
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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.: Anna Freud (1895 - 1982)
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