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Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of the Island, 1915
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.: Frank Leahy
It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.: Bill Hicks
There’s a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.: John Alejandro King, My War On Terror!
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.: Jay Leno (1950 - )
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.: Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
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Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.: Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986)
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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.: Booker T. Washington (1856 - 1915)
To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.: Hugo Von Hofmannsthal (1874 - 1929)
You have to track every single thing you eat if you want to keep posting big numbers on the scale each week.: Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.: e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.: Alan Paton (1903 - 1988)
The real power behind whatever success I have now was something I found within myself - something that's in all of us, I think, a little piece of God just waiting to be discovered.: Tina Turner (1938 - ), O Magazine, December 2003
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.: Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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You always second guess yourself. Just think of all the time you'd save if you just trusted yourself.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.: Joan Rivers (1935 - )
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Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.: Ron Nesen