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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.': Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)
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Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.: Marilyn Ferguson
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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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What's another word for Thesaurus?: Steven Wright (1955 - )
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.: John Barth (1930 - )
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The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.: Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963), Les Enfants Terribles
Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.: Eddie Rickenbacker (1890 - 1973)
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This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There's only change and resistance to it and then more change.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.: Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875)
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Compassion isn’t being nice, she would say. It’s fighting like hell for the people who would get trampled otherwise.: Susan Kaye Quinn, You Knew the Price, 2021
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Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.: E. F. Schumacher
Angels dancing on the head of a pin dissolve into nothingness at the bedside of a dying child.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 06-21-05
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You don't need to outdo the competition. It's expensive and defensive. Underdo your competition. We need more simplicity and clarity.: Jason Fried, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good shit and give it away as fast as you can.: Lisa Williams, The Lessons of Nixon, 05-19-06
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.: Marlon Brando (1924 - 2004)
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.: Phyllis Diller
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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
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