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Our creations MUST be shared to be art, and the easiest way to share our art is to sell it.: Laura Moncur (1969 - ), Merriton: 35 Minutes from Home, 03-07-12
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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.: Fred Brooks
Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.: Sir Julian Huxley (1887 - 1975)
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It is hard work, but there is happiness in it.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies – particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.: Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life, 06-01-05
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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I want to change the pop world one sequin at a time. Artists tend to take themselves way too seriously and don't enjoy the fun of making an impact on culture. I just have a good time and sequins represent a good time.: Lady Gaga (1986 - ), BBC Breakfast, 04-21-09
Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.: Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960)
Learn to value yourself, which means: to fight for your happiness.: Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982)
America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.: Anthony Walton
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.: Dale Carnegie
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If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.: Anonymous, often attributed to Dan Quayle
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When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.: King Edward VIII (1894 - 1972)
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The world has so many lessons to teach you. I consider the world, our earth, to be like a school, and our life, the classrooms. Sometimes on our planet life school, the lessons often come dressed up as detours and road blocks and sometimes as full blown crises. And the secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.: Michael Pritchard
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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The palest ink is better than the best memory.: Chinese Proverb
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