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Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Self-Reliance", 1841
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.: Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.: E. M. Forster (1879 - 1970)
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If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, August 2003
The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it.: Sidney J. Harris
An old house with its windows gone always makes me think of something dead with its eyes picked out.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.: Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923)
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Nature has been for me, for as long as I remember, a source of solace, inspiration, adventure, and delight; a home, a teacher, a companion.: Lorraine Anderson
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
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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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Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.: Evan Davis
The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
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That is not what Geek means to me. We are more than the hobbies that we do or the things that we like. To me, Geek means an outsider, a rebel, a dreamer, a creator, a fighter. It's a person who dares to love something that isn't conventional.: Felicia Day, Geek and Sundry, State of the Sundry, 03-25-13
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, 1604-1605
A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.: Robert Chapman
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Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)