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My focus has always been on talent over looks. This theme of people putting an emphasis on looks first has been a constant reminder throughout my life that most people don’t see things in the same way that I do.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.: Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.: Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
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Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.: Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.: Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)
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My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.: Winston Groom, Forrest Gump
You see what power is - holding someone else's fear in your hand and showing it to them!: Amy Tan (1952 - )
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Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.: Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.': Dan Parker
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.: Ronnie Shakes
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.: Peter De Vries
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Warrior's Apprentice", 1986
If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being.: Kathleen Norris, O Magazine, July 2003
You never can see into someone else's marriage.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.: Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 - 1950), Letters
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You can observe a lot just by watching.: Yogi Berra (1925 - ), Berra's Law
Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.: Mark Jenkins, "To Timbuktu"
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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