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I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.: Terry Pratchett
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.: George Ade (1866 - 1944), "Fables in Slang", 1899
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.: Marilyn vos Savant
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We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.: Dennis Miller
If you can break down those walls you’ve spent so many years building to protect yourself, you can achieve anything.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.: Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989), 1958
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What you are is a question only you can answer.: Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice, 1986
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.: Saadi (1184 - 1291)
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Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.: Erica Jong
Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.": Peter McWilliams, Life 101
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure.: Piero Ferrucci
While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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Every time we remember to say "thank you," we experience nothing less than heaven on earth.: Sarah Ban Breathnach
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.: Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha
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The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.: Hugh Prather
Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing, fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, First Snow, 1993
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