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I learned an important lesson in the art of debate. Present your argument clearly, arm yourself with cutting wit and of course, bob and weave!: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
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Almost everything--all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure--these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.: Carlos Castaneda
I go to movies expecting to have a whole experience. If I want a movie that doesn't end, I'll go to a French movie. A movie has to be complete within itself; it can't just build off the first one or play variations.: Joss Whedon, Entertainment Weekly, 08-30-13
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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.': Helen Hayes (1900 - 1993)
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
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The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.: Marilyn Ferguson
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The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.: Baltasar Gracian
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I stand in awe of my body.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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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The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.: Dave Barry (1947 - ), "The Taming of the Screw"
People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.: Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956), The Mother, 1932
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There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.: Steven Wright (1955 - )
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Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.: Jennie Jerome Churchill (1854 - 1921)
I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
The first and great commandment is: Don't let them scare you.: Elmer Davis (1890 - 1958)