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It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.: Philip Adams
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I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.: Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
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Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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All a good letter has to do is make you feel special.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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College isn't the place to go for ideas.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.: George MacDonald (1824 - 1905)
America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.: John Updike (1932 - ), Problems and Other Stories
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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.: Kenneth Hildebrand
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.: Samuel McChord Crothers, The Gentle Reader
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Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?: Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993
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A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.: Caskie Stinnett, Out of the Red (1960)
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.: Robert Fritz
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944
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There is no Them, there is only Us. Some of Us think this or some of Us think that, but we're all Us.: Lisa Williams, Us and Them: A Blog Conversation Survival Guide, SXSW 2006
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.: Herbert Henry Asquith (1852 - 1928)
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