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If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.: Sam Ewing
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Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher weblog, 05-01-05
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Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.: Ralph Charell
I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.: Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks
May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.: Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey, 1995
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With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.: Elias Schwartz
'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), (attributed)
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
'Where and how can I make this meal better for me?' I asked myself that question before every meal—especially in the beginning.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.: Bob Hope (1903 - 2003)
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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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We are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Nomination Acceptance Speech, 08-28-08
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.: Malaclypse the Younger
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.: William Arthur Ward
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963
I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.: Dr. Ana M Guzman