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We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech, April 2, 1957
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The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992
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Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.: Muhammad Ali (1942 - ), "More Than a Hero"
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If we cannot live so as to be happy, let us least live so as to deserve it.: Immanuel Hermann Fichte
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People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's.: Martha Burgess, Founder, Theatre Techniques for Business People
I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.: William H. Mauldin (1921 - 2003)
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
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Knowledge is power.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
I'm a fan of laundry: the smell of fabric softener, the warm clothes in your hands. It's so good.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
I’m not going to die because I failed as someone else. I’m going to succeed as myself.: Margaret Cho, I'm The One That I Want, 1999
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.: Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976
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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.: Carol Burnett (1936 - )
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I could prove God statistically.: George Gallup (1901 - 1984)
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No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.: Minor White
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The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.: Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)