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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.: Nikolai Gogol (1809 - 1852), 1836
You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.: Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Invisible Monsters, 1999
It is only the first step that is difficult.: Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Marquise Du Defend, letter to Defend, 1763
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.: Edward Sellner
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.: John Herschel (1792 - 1871)
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Thinking you won’t die is yet another side effect of dying.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Do or do not. There is no try.: Yoda, 'The Empire Strikes Back'
Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II, sc. 1
You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are.: Anna Quindlen (1953 - ), A Short Guide to a Happy Life, 2000
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996), The Greatest Miracle in the World
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The world is round; it has no point.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
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Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.: Sidney J. Harris
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There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.: General Douglas MacArthur (1880 - 1964)
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The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.: David Brinkley (1920 - 2003)
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