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Character is forged in the smallest of struggles. Then, when the big challenges come, we’re ready.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 12-30-05
My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...: W. S. Gilbert (1836 - 1911), The Mikado, 1885
If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), Mere Christianity
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.: Shirley MacLaine (1934 - )
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt.: William Ernest Hocking (1873 - 1966)
The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.: David Foster, House M.D., TB or Not TB, 2005
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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.: Michael Pritchard
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It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.: Queen Christina (1626 - 1689), of Sweden
Journalism is just a gun. It's only got one bullet in it, but if you aim right, that's all you need. Aim it right and you can blow a kneecap off the world.: Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan: Back On The Street
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To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.: Joan Klempner
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The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain: Scott Westerfeld, Pretties, 2005
Obsessions and fixations are not really my field. All I know, when the mind really grabs hold of something, look out.: Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman, Northern Exposure, The Bumpy Road to Love, 1991
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.: Jerry Chin
Money's the same, whoever gives it to you. That was the point of money, after all: crisp and clean or wrinkled or disintegrated into quarters - a dollar was always worth a hundred cents.: Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
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I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
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How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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