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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.
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Joel Spolsky, Sink or Swim, SXSW 2006
Worrying helps you some—it seems as if you were doing something when you're worrying.
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L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
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Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, sc. 1
Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time, scraps of your thoughts.
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Mary O'Hara
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
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Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
The great god Ra whose shrine once covered acres
Is filler now for crossword-puzzle makers.
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Keith Preston
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Taxation No Tyranny
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.
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Unknown
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
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A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
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Herb Caen
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
You're never too old to become younger.
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Mae West (1892 - 1980)
In forming a bridge between body and mind, dreams may be used as a springboard from which man can leap to new realms of experience lying outside his normal state of consciousness.
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Ann Faraday
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), Tender is the Night
Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone.
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Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 12-29-05
The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense.
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Ann Richards
Blaze with the fire that is never extinguished.
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Luisa Sigea, O Magazine, September 2003
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Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
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