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Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.: Reggie Leach
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A person's abilities are tested best when defending rather than attacking.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 11-09-07
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A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.: Joseph F. Newton
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Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.: Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)
What you are is a question only you can answer.: Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice, 1986
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.: Edgar Wilson Nye (1850 - 1896), quoted in Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1924
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I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust too.: John Masefield (1878 - 1967)
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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.: Toni Cade Bambara
Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Apple WWDC Closing Keynote, 1997
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men.: Russell P. Askue
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.: Anne-Sophie Swetchine
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
A girl phoned me the other day and said "Come on over, there's nobody home." I went over. Nobody was home.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.: David Frost
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What may be done at any time will be done at no time.: Scottish Proverb
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The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - )