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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.: Rodin (1840 - 1917)
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whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present?: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.: Henry C. Link
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When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.: Bob Edwards
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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time.: Mason Cooley, O Magazine, April 2004
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.: Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
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I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.: Jack London (1876 - 1916)
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Then give to the world the best you have. And the best will come back to you.: Madeline Bridges, O Magazine, December 2003
I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.: David Letterman (1947 - )
America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness-built upon freedom-is moral, not material. we have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.: Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), Speech, New York, December 6, 1911
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.: Ken Olsen (1926 - ), President, Digital Equipment, 1977
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I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.: Chuck Norris (1940 - )
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?: Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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Grief does not change you, it reveals you.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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