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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
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Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Happy Death
Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt.
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William Van Horne
Boxing is just show business with blood.
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Frank Bruno
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
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Dorothy Sarnoff
God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.
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Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien
To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
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Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
Nothing else exists when art does.
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Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux, 2004
Don't rule out working with your hands. It does not preclude using your head.
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Andy Rooney (1919 - )
We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with high and resolute courage. For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Address at the opening of the gubernatorial campaign, New York City, October 5, 1898
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
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Anne Tyler (1941 - )
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both.
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John Andrew Holmes, "Wisdom in Small Doses"
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
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Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Plutarch (46 AD - 120 AD)
Sometimes creativity is a compulsion, not an ambition.
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Ed Norton, Entertainment Weekly
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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Tryon Edwards (1809 - 1894)
Making excuses is not going to get me any closer to my goals.
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Ali Vincent, Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life, 2009
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
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Alexander Humboldt (1769 - 1859)
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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