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I know starting careers in troubled times is a challenge, but it is also a privilege. Because it's moments like these that force us to try harder, dig deeper and to discover gifts we never knew we had. To find the greatness that lies within each of us. So don't ever shy away from that endeavor. Don't stop adding to your body of work. I can promise that you will be the better for that continued effort as will be this nation that we all love.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
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We don't always get to choose what we love.: Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
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When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.: Dave Barry (1947 - )
Even the best of friends need time apart.: Mark Heath, Spot the Frog, 09-09-05
The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.: Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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All my possessions for a moment of time.: Elizabeth I (1533 - 1603)
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If you treat people right they will treat you right - ninety percent of the time.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), Here Lies (1939), "The Little Hours"
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
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He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.: Hesiod (~800 BC), Works and Days
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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.: Jules de Gaultier
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[Addiction's] not about placating the bad dog - it's about feeding the good dog. You still have to feed the bad dog, but only enough so that the ASPCA doesn't bring you up on charges.: Robert Downey Jr., Entertainment Weekly, 11-21-08
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Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.: Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.: Aeschylus (525 BC - 456 BC)
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.: Dutch Proverb
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We try to grab pieces of our lives as they speed past us. Photographs freeze those pieces and help us remember how we were. We don't know these lost people but if you look around, you'll find someone just like them.: Gene McSweeney, Grey Water Photography, 06-04-2006
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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