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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.: Wayne Gretzky (1961 - )
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Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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The only paradise is paradise lost.: Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.: William Gibson (1948 - )
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Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.: Emile Coue (1857 - 1926)
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.: Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)
Silence is a text easy to misread.: A. A. Attanasio, 'The Eagle and the Sword'
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Of those who say nothing, few are silent.: Thomas Neill
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Just as I had to go through a transition period, I guess [my friends and family] did, too.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.: Frank Wilczek (1951 - )
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.: Lucille Ball (1911 - 1989)
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But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Self Reliance"
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In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.: Tom Nolan, in The Wall Street Journal