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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894)
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It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.: Betty Friedan (1921 - 2006)
His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.: Sir George Savile, 'Advice to a Daughter,' 1688
If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?: Art Hoppe
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.: Blake Clark
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.: Robert Byrne
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Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.: Edward Shepherd Mead
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People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.: Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 07-07-06
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.: Buck Henry
In the end, everything is a gag.: Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977)
Your mailbox is your window to your heart! Make sure you leave that window open!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.: George Lucas (1944 - ), Senator Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human.: Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide
That isn’t about money, fame, or power. It’s about will, dedication, commitment, and knowing your self-worth. You can be poor as dirt and have those traits. Money can’t buy you values. You just need to know what is important to you and then feel secure in your pursuit to achieve that.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.: Lydia M. Child
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Annajanska (1919)
How my achievements mock me!: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act IV
Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.: Blore's Razor