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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.: Arthur Ashe
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934), Letter to her brother, 1894
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.: Norman Douglas
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An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.: Joel Spolsky, Sink or Swim, SXSW 2006
It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.: Simone de Beauvoir
The time to relax is -- when you don't have time for it.: Sidney J. Harris
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
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Nothing else exists when art does.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux, 2004
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.: Cullen Hightower
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Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832
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So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to time the way that tobacco does.: Caleb Carr, 'The Angel of Darkness', 1997
The best way to live is by not knowing what will happen to you at the end of the day...: Donald Barthelme
Every time we remember to say "thank you," we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.: Sarah Ban Breathnach
Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.: Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986)
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