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Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgment of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.: Kathleen Casey Theisen
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.: Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941
To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.: John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don't repeat it.: Paul "Bear" Bryant, I Ain't Never Been Nothing but a Winner
That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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It's hard to take over the world when you sleep 20 hours a day.: Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy, 06-07-04
Get on stage. A lot. Try stuff. Make your best stab and keep stabbing. If it's there in your heart, it will eventually find its way out. Or you will give up and have a prudent, contented life doing something else.: Raymond Joseph Teller, Fury Letter written to Brian Brushwood, 10-18-93
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If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances.: Julia Sorel
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We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.: Susan Jeffers
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I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), 'Cato'
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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I shut my eyes in order to see.: Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
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Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.: E. W. Dijkstra
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There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably good book.: Saul Bellow (1915 - 2005)
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My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
It doesn't matter if you win or lose in the big, scary jungle of the real world. Winners and losers... Enemies and allies... We don't live in a comic book! This is the real deal.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005