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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
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Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
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Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3
You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
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John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
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Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
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Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.
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William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Twelfth Night'
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'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
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J. A. Spender
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
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Beverly Sills (1929 - )
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What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself.
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Anna Jameson
Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.
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Robert Rodriguez, Spy Kids 3-D Game Over
Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds.
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Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), 'This Is My Story,' 1937
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
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Dr. Howard Murphy
Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.
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J. S. Bryan
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If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
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Teena Booth, Falling From Fire
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Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.
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Andy Gibb
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
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Henry S. Haskins
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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George Wald (1906 - )
The future is much like the present, only longer.
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Dan Quisenberry
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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