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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.: Quentin Crisp
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.: Jeff Bezos (1964 - )
I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.: Unknown
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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.: Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed)
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), 'Economy,' Walden, 1854
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Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.: Anonymous
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Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.: Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong.: Sir Colin Marshall
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.: Albert Ellis
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)
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.: Latin Proverb
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Technical term is narcissism. You can't believe everything is your fault unless you also believe you're all powerful.: Matt Witten, House M.D., Humpty Dumpty, 2005
Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.': Sue Halpern, O Magazine, September 2003
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I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Prehistoric Ice Man, 1999
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