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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.: William Cobbett (1763 - 1835)
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Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.: Jewish Proverb
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There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.: Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.: Cynthia Ozick
You may delay, but time will not.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.: Maria Schell
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Every crowd has a silver lining.: Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810 - 1891)
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?': Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.: Jeanne Moreau
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Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.: Lewis Mumford (1895 - 1990)
Vigorous let us be in attaining our ends, and mild in our method of attainment.: Lord Newborough, Motto
You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.: Norm Crosby
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.: Arnold Bennett
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.': Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
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My focus has always been on talent over looks. This theme of people putting an emphasis on looks first has been a constant reminder throughout my life that most people don’t see things in the same way that I do.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
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