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Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth…Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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Noela Evans
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
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Christopher Reeve, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996
No great deed, private or public, had ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
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Leon Wieseltier, in The New Republic
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
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W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.
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Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
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Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.
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Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616), Exemplary Novels (1613)
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
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P. D. James
Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
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Ecclesiastes
Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up.
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David Shore, House M.D., DNR, 2004
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968), The Open Door (1957)
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
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Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959), New York Times, October 4, 1953
You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.
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Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
Outer space is no place for a person of breeding.
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Lady Violet Bonham Carter (1887 - 1969)
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 41
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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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