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Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), "Self-Reliance", 1841
Go after a man's weakness, and never, ever, threaten unless you're going to follow through, because if you don't, the next time you won't be taken seriously.: Roy M. Cohn (1927 - 1986)
People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.: Mary Pettibone Poole
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman. Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.: Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909 - 1993), in All About Eve
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If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.: Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.: Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
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Half of the modern drugs could well be thrown out of the window, except that the birds might eat them.: Dr. Martin Henry Fischer
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Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.: Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
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In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.: Dorothea Dix (1802 - 1887)
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.: W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
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Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them.: Leonard Louis Levinson
One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.: Franklin P. Jones
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
She is a friend of my mind... The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.: Toni Morrison (1931 - )
I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
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I guess what I'm trying to say is, I don't think you can measure life in terms of years. I think longevity doesn't necessarily have anything to do with happiness. I mean happiness comes from facing challenges and going out on a limb and taking risks. If you're not willing to take a risk for something you really care about, you might as well be dead.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Northern Lights, 1993
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