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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.: Charles Victor Cherbuliez
I admit it's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, or the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit, but maybe the best any of us can do is not quit. Play the hand we've been given and accessorize the outfit we've got.: Allan Heinberg, Sex and the City, A 'Vogue' Idea, 2002
Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946)
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.: Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.: Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
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Laughter is an instant vacation.: Milton Berle (1908 - 2002)
You have to find a way of working that makes it dead easy to take full advantage of your inspired moments. They never hit at a convenient time, nor do they last long.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 24, 08-22-04
Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal.: Marya Mannes
In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.: Farrah Gray
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When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.: Cherrie Moraga
Call home at least once a week. It's a proven fact that we call home less the older we get. And that's wrong. It should be the other way around. As we get older, our parents get older.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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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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Do what you love, love what you do, leave the world a better place and don't pick your nose.: Jeff Mallett, Frazz, 08-03-04
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.: Bill Gates (1955 - ), Business @ The Speed of Thought
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It's harder to make something good when you can't curse all the time.: Tina Fey, Max 60 Seconds, 2008
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'God and the Bible,' 1875
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Oppression can only survive through silence.: Carmen de Monteflores
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.: Madonna (1958 - )