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Faith is taking the first step, even when you don't see the whole staircase.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
There comes a point in life when you realize everything you know about yourself, it's all just conditioning. It's the rare man who truly know who he is.: Brian Buckner, True Blood, Plaisir d'amour, 2008
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.: Robertson Davies, "Fifth Business"
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Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love.: Randy K. Milholland, Midnight Macabre, 09-27-07
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As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885), 'Affurisms from Josh Billings: His Sayings,' 1865
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No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.: Ken Rockwell, Your Camera Does Not Matter, 2005
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You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.: Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.: Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858
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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.: Ursula K. LeGuin
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There is some comfort in dying surrounded by one's children.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Our great weariness comes from work not done.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
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If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.: Abraham Maslow (1908 - 1970)
What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.: Maxine Waters, in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, 1989
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...': Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.: Tom Clancy (1947 - )
Now I understand what exhaustion is. It’s not just a code word for heroin addiction. People don’t teach you how to handle the workload that comes from a little bit of success, and it’s something I’d never had to handle, because I’d been rejected for so long.: Felicia Day, The Washington Post, 04-03-12
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