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Your pasion must come from the things that fuel you from the inside. Honors and awards are nice things, but only to the extent that they regard the real respect from your peers.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.: Krishnamurti
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.: Lydia M. Child
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It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.: Maria Edgeworth, O Magazine, April 2004
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885), Les Miserables, 1862
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I know just how frustrating it can be when you're tired and exhausted, but you still want to draw something.: Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-23-2006
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Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human.: Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.: Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader
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We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
Concern for someone else was a good remedy for taking the mind off one's own troubles.: Elizabeth Aston, The True Darcy Spirit, 2006
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum (I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.): Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.: Latin Proverb
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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950), "Animal Farm"
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Everybody tells jokes, but we still need comedians.: Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.: Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
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One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
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