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When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.: Rick Pitino, Lead to Success
Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter.: Paxton Hood
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Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made.: Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
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The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it’s not about me. It’s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said…' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear.: Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 04-07-2006
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.: Terry Pratchett
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.: Larry McMurtry (1936 - ), 'Lonesome Dove'
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There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.: Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959)
A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.: Unknown
There's a rule in acting called, "Don't play the result." If you have a character who's going to end up in a certain place, don't play that until you get there. Play each scene and each beat as it comes. And that's what you do in life: You don't play the result.: Michael J. Fox (1961 - ), Good Housekeeping, June 2011
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Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, January 2004
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When you strike at a king, you must kill him.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.: Calvin Trillin (1935 - )
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Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.: Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics
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If you don't know to the second when a drunk's gonna vomit on you, you don't survive as a strip club bouncer.: Veronica Pare and Ferrett Steinmetz, Home on the Strange, 10-02-07
Most men's awareness doesn't extend past their dinner plates.: Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan, 2009
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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.: Robert Anton Wilson
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.: Herm Albright (1876 - 1944)
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It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.: George Washington (1732 - 1799), letter to his niece Harriet Washington, October 30, 1791
Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.: David Hume (1711 - 1776)
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.: Sir William Osler (1849 - 1919), In H. Cushing, Life of Sir William Osler (1925)
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