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Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.: Willie Shoemaker
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If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), inaugural address, January 20, 1961
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.: Robertson Davies, "A Voice from the Attic", 1960
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Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), An Ideal Husband, 1893, Act I
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.: Mary Hirsch
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Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250: Harper's Index, October 1989
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.: Harold Bloom (1930 - ), O Magazine, April 2003
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Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.: Anonymous
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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Reading is no substitute for action.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 07-26-08
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
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One day the factory sports coach, who was very strict, pointed at four boys, including me, and ordered us to run in a race. I protested that I was weak and not fit to run, but the coach sent me for a physical examination and the doctor said that I was perfectly well. So I had to run, and when I got started I felt I wanted to win. But I only came in second. That was the way it started.: Emil Zatopek
Let's have some new cliches.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Childhood"
Twilight, again. Another ending. No matter how perfect the day is, it always has to end.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.: Samuel McChord Crothers
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Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.: John Clarke, Economist
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