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It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.: Joseph de Maistre
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
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Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Animal Farm"
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I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
Sometimes being a good friend means being harsh.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
If you can't do what you want, do what you can.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946)
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Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - )
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.: H. L. Hunt
'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.: Sarah Orne Jewett (1849 - 1909), The Country of the Pointed Firs, 1896
No matter where you live, brothers are brothers and sisters are sisters. The bonds that keep family close are the same no matter where you are.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.: Shimon Peres (1923 - )
Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.: Spanish Proverb
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Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.: Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
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