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The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.: John Blake
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University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - )
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.: Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
The best armor is to keep out of range.: Italian Proverb
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It is ever so much easier to be good if your clothes are fashionable.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
How do you define God? Like this. A God I could understand, at least potentially, was infinitely more interesting and relevant than one that defied comprehension.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.: Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.: Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, pg. 1 line 3-4
If Spirituality is that you're humble in the face of forces greater than you and you believe those forces are more inclined toward being good than being bad, then I'm a spiritual person.: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), Good Housekeeping, June 2011
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), August 8, 1950
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.: Lady Bird Johnson (1912 - 2007)
Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.: John Updike (1932 - )
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You don’t need to win every medal to be successful.: Jason Fried, Signal Vs. Noise, 08-22-06
Nothing's so apt to undermine your confidence in a product as knowing that the commercial selling it has been approved by the company that make it.: Franklin P. Jones
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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I shall not pretend that I do not prefer to have people adore me rather than revile me, but I have always found that it was far easier for me to suffer the disapprobation of others than to amend my behaviour in order to find favour with them.: Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
The customer doesn't expect everything will go right all the time; the big test is what you do when things go wrong.: Sir Colin Marshall
The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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