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There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.: Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
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God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
It has all been very interesting.: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762), last words, 1762
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
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You can cover a great deal of country in books.: Andrew Lang (1844 - 1912)
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Some people will never learn anything because they understand everything too soon.: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
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Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simpler, but much less magical.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Chef Aid, 1998
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Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.: Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.: Robert Orben
A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.: George Iles
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Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Feelings are like toes! They have to breathe free or they'll stink to high heaven!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.: Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.: Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
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You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.: Tove Jansson, Tales from Moominvalley, 1963
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.: Lee Iacocca (1924 - )