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Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.: Scott Westerfeld, Uglies, 2005
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For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.: Nelson Mandela (1918 - )
Concentration is my motto. First honesty, then industry, then concentration.: Andrew Carnegie (1835 - 1919)
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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A specification that will not fit on one page of 8.5x11 inch paper cannot be understood.: Mark Ardis
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.: Rabbi Julius Gordon
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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
Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light.: John W. Gardner (1912 - 2002)
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Painting in watercolor is like walking a tight-rope; one must achieve a perfect balance between what the paint wants to do and what the artist wants to do, or all is lost.: Mary C. Taylor, Watercolor Bold and Free
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A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.: Carl Reiner
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.: Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978), (Charlie McCarthy)
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All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.: Stanislaw J. Lec (1909 - 1966), "Unkempt Thoughts"
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.: Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764