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A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.: Frank Westheimer, Westheimers Discovery
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.: Gerry Spence, How to Argue and Win Every Time
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A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.: Samuel McChord Crothers
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Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.: Roseanne Barr
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.: Salma Hayek
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Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.: Lady Duff-Gordon (1863 - 1935)
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.: William James (1842 - 1910)
A man may well bring a horse to the water but he cannot make him drink.: John Heywood (1497 - 1580)
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
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You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005), Mitch All Together
Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.: Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.: Sidney J. Harris
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Sometimes ya gotta do stuff 'cause it's expected of ya, not 'cause of anything else.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: Twelve Hours from San Francisco, 07-09-08
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)