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Always be nice to people on the way up; because you'll meet the same people on the way down.: Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.: Florence Nightingale (1820 - 1910), in Cecil Woodham-Smith, Florence Nightingale, 1951
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.: Dan Rather (1931 - )
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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.: Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
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I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
Nothing is said that has not been said before.: Terence (185 BC - 159 BC)
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now!: Michael Landon (1936 - 1991)
If you're afraid to let someone else see your weakness, take heart: Nobody's perfect. Besides, your attempts to hide your flaws don't work as well as you think they do.: Julie Morgenstern, O Magazine, April 2004
You threaten to punch someone in the face, what do they do? They duck. You try to punch 'em in the wallet and they always open up.: Howard Gordon and Evan Katz, Awake, Ricky's Tacos, April 2012
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.: Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
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If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.: John Abrams, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it!: Jonathan Winters
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.: Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784)
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We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.: Norman Fischer
Admit that your own private Mount Everest exists. That is half the battle.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 9, 08-22-04
We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.: John Hope Franklin
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.: Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)
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Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.: Howard Scott (1926 - )
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), As quoted in The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell by Elizabeth Salter, 1967
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.: Sidney J. Harris
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