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If I've learned one thing in the 14 years I've been a full-time cartoonist, it's that you can not let anyone else define your professionalism. It has to be a personal ethos to which you adhere despite third party influence or acceptance. The old measuring sticks for professionalism are going away and now more than ever it's time for independent creatives to set the bar. Set it high.: Scott R. Kurtz, PvPonline, 11-28-2011
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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.: Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), in New York Times, 1985
One can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator (1897)
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.: George Bush (1924 - )
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Give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for, because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything.: Peter Marshall, Senate chaplain, prayer offered at the opening of the session, April 18, 1947
Sometimes old things need to go away. That way, we have room for the new things that come into our lives.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive webcomic, 09-17-05
It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.: Queen Christina (1626 - 1689), of Sweden
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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I really feel as if the things we create together are not things we devised, but things we discovered, as if, in some sense, they were always there in us, waiting to be revealed, like the figure of Mercury waiting in a rough lump of marble.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
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People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.: Brendan Francis
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.: Daniel Webster (1782 - 1852)
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.: Paula Poundstone
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.: William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech at Amherst College, October 26, 1963
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Never miss a chance to keep your mouth shut.: Robert Newton Peck, 'A Day No Pigs Would Die'
Let us hope that we are all preceded in this world by a love story.: Don Snyder, Of Time and Memory