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The less you can live on, the more chance your idea will succeed. This is true even after you’ve 'made it'.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 31. Remain Frugal., 08-22-04
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.: e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
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Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath.: Solon (638 BC - 559 BC)
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You cannot just work out and then eat poorly and expect to lose weight. It doesn’t work that way.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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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.: Anna Jameson
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.: Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.: Alexis Carrel (1873 - 1944)
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.: Olin Miller
No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.: Robert Half
Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better.: Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989)
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
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A month in the laboratory can often save an hour in the library.: Frank Westheimer, Westheimers Discovery
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.: Frances Willard (1839 - 1898)
Not going home is already like death.: E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
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Hello seeker! Now don't feel alone here in the New Age, because there's a seeker born every minute.: Firesign Theatre
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.: Friedrich Engels (1820 - 1895)
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.: John Cage (1912 - 1992)
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