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When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.: Pierre Corneille (1606 - 1684)
Not going home is already like death.: E. Catherine Tobler, Vanishing Act
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It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988)
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Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.: Bob Edwards
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One is obliged to do a great deal of kissing in my line of work: air kissing, [butt] kissing, kissing up, and of course actual kissing. Much like hookers, actors have to do it with people we may not like or even know.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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Sometimes a good exit is all you can ask for.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
You must give some time to your fellow men. Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.: Sir George Savile, 'Advice to a Daughter,' 1688
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.: Ken Hakuta
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Luck is the residue of design.: Branch Rickey (1881 - 1965), Lecture title, 1950
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If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.: Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
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Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), An Essay on Criticism, 1711
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. None of Nature's landscapes are ugly so long as they are wild.: John Muir (1838 - 1914), Our National Parks, 1901
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Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden: Economy, 1854