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Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.: Baltasar Gracian
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Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.: Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.: Edgar Bergen (1903 - 1978), (Charlie McCarthy)
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
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I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.: Alan Alda (1936 - )
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.: Jeff Valdez
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A good listener is usually thinking about something else.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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Wanting to be someone you're not is a waste of the person you are.: Kurt Cobain (1967 - 1994)
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.: John Hope Franklin
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not. We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.: John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
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There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.: Alfred Korzybski (1879 - 1950)
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I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), The Waves (1931)
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, October 26, 1939
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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 - )
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.: Katharine Hepburn (1907 - 2003)
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What we play is life.: Louis Armstrong (1900 - 1971)
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