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Blame someone else and get on with your life.: Alan Woods
The elevation of appearance over substance, of celebrity over character, of short term gains over lasting achievement displays a poverty of ambition. It distracts you from what's truly important.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
Strive for excellence, not perfection.: H. Jackson Brown Jr., O Magazine, December 2003
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Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.: Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC), 300 B.C.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), 'Les Malheureux'
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One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life.: Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher.com weblog, September 9, 2003
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.: Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909 - 1993), in All About Eve
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He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.: Anonymous, (wrongly attributed to the Koran)
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Somebody once said that beauty is the passport to success, but it's not a passport. It's a visa and it expires.: Michael J. Mosley and Nicholas Rossiter, The Human Face, 2001
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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.: Frank Duff, A Coder in Courierland, 03-20-05
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I know nothing about sex because I was always married.: Zsa Zsa Gabor (1919 - )
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Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.: Muhammad Ali (1942 - ), "More Than a Hero"
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I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.: Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), John Bull's Other Island (1907) act 2
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 14
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The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.: Heda Bejar