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There is this unwritten contract between author and reader and I think not ending your book kind of violates that contract.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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We need men who can dream of things that never were.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.: Donald Trump (1946 - ), "Trump: Art of the Deal"
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Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.: Mary Tyler Moore (1936 - )
[Memory is] a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.: Alexander Smith (1830 - 1867)
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You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.: Terry Pratchett
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.: Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881), Past and Present, 1843
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None of us is as smart as all of us.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.: Unknown
I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
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There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 1642