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Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.: Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941)
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Exile, for no other motive than ease, would be the last defeat, with no seed of future victory in it.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Shards of Honor", 1986
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People who are 'ready' give off a different vibe than people who aren't. Animals can smell fear; maybe that's it. The minute you become ready is the the minute you stop dreaming. Suddenly it's no longer about 'becoming'. Suddenly it's about 'doing'.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 28. Power is never given. Power is taken., 08-22-04
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.: Milton Friedman (1912 - 2006)
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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.: Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
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We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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Creativity is...seeing something that doesn't exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.: Michele Shea
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Any woman who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach is aiming about 10 inches too high.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.: Ruben Studdard, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
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Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.: Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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Working in the garden...gives me a profound feeling of inner peace.: Ruth Stout
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Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.: Bill Gates (1955 - ), Time Magazine, January 13, 1996
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope still is to leave the world a little bit better for my having been here. It's a wonderful life and I love it.: Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green And Other Things to Consider