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So many people miss out on true talent because they can’t get past a look. At the end of the day, losing weight was easy, but finding talent? Now that’s hard.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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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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The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.: Doug Larson
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.: Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
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My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.: Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
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Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning.: Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882)
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.: Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled
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Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.: Umberto Eco (1932 - )
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last.: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 09-07-06
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Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
The computing field is always in need of new cliches.: Alan Perlis
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I'm still an atheist, thank God.: Luis Bunuel (1900 - 1983)
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Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.: Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy, 1980
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Humankind cannot stand very much reality.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education.: Burk Hudson
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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.: Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
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We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004