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When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.: Josiah Quincy
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The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet.: William Gibson (1948 - )
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Laugh at yourself first, before anyone else can.: Elsa Maxwell, September 28, 1958
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Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.: Anonymous
There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me it'd be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how its emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
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The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.: Esther Dyson, Interview in Time Magazine, October 2005
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The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.: Isabelle Eberhardt
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Extreme exercise doesn’t save you from poor food choices. It can be difficult to exercise and erase away that chocolate cake or pizza pie. It doesn’t work that way.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The price of greatness is responsibility.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Sometimes being a good friend means being harsh.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
When a problem can’t be solved, an attitude of acceptance makes room in your mind and heart for solutions to the problems that do need to be solved.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.: Lydia M. Child
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One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people...well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
Deeds, not words shall speak me.: John Fletcher (1579 - 1625)
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When I'm not doing something that comes deeply from me, I get bored. When I get bored I get distracted and when I get distracted, I become depressed. It's a natural resistance, and it insures your integrity.: Maria Irene Fornes
A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.: Unknown
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes!: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.: Cecil B. DeMille (1881 - 1959)
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The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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