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There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wrong when we get too comfortable, when we fail to take risks or seize opportunities.: Susan Rice, Stanford University Commencement, 2010
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My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
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...it is as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924)
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There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers, but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.: Melanie Benjamin, Alice I Have Been, 2010
A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.: Frank Westheimer, Westheimers Discovery
Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.: Johann Georg von Zimmermann
I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), quoted by Plato, 'The Death of Socrates'
EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We’re looking for something, though we’re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, February 13, 2003
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The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.: Scottish Proverb
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You can cover a great deal of country in books.: Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912)
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Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.: Henry George (1839 - 1897)
Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.: Stephanie Barron, Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor, 1996
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I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.: Eddie Izzard
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth *and* fresher breath.: Dave Barry (1947 - ), "Kids Today: They Don't Know Dum Diddly Do"
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.: Quentin Crisp
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If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.: Lord Salisbury
There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
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