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If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear.: Eric Schmidt, University of Pennsylvania Commencement Address, 2009
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.: Arnold Toynbee (1889 - 1975)
The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), 1903
If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run - and often in the short one - the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.: Arthur C. Clarke (1917 - ), The Exploration of Space, 1951
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.: Dianne Houston, Take The Lead, 2006
Looking forward to things is half the pleasure of them. You mayn't get the things themselves; but nothing can prevent you from having the fun of looking forward to them.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.: Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
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.: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.: Fritz Kunkel
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He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1967)
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.: Dick Cavett (1936 - )
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.: Edward P. Tryon
Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.: Ben Azai, Mishna
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.: Stephen King (1947 - ), "Hearts in Atlantis"
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The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.: Martin Mull (1943 - )
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.: Horace (65 BC - 8 BC)
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.: Steven Pearl