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Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
It's not about vein' mad at everything. It's about bein' REALLY mad at the right stuff.: Ice T., Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, 06-13-12
It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.: Terri Minsky, Sex and the City, The Baby Shower, 1998
If you enjoyed making a thing, and you’re proud of the thing you made, that’s enough. Not everyone is going to like it, and that’s okay.: Wil Wheaton, WIL WHATON dot NET, 12-07-13
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We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.: Kanye West
You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?: Bernadette Peters, Inside the Actors Studio
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.: Quentin Crisp
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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.: Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - 1986)
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Use your enemy's hand to catch a snake.: Persian Proverb
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There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.: Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.: Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900), The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849
It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them.: Isabel Colegate
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Good ideas alter the power balance in relationships, that is why good ideas are always initially resisted. Good ideas come with a heavy burden. Which is why so few people have them. So few people can handle it.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 1 Ignore Everybody, 08-22-04
If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.: A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
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Sometimes it's hard to avoid the happiness of others.: David Assael, Northern Exposure, Our Tribe, 1992
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It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.: Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - ), Fight Club