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Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.: George F. Will (1941 - )
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.: Erica Jong
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Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2005
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The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.: Louis I Kahn
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A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.: Jerry Chin
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.: E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
Maps encourage boldness. They're like cryptic love letters. They make anything seem possible.: Mark Jenkins, "To Timbuktu"
Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 11-06-03
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You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?": George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1
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Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.: Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
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Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.: Fred Allen (1894 - 1956)
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I think about how there are certain people who come into your life and leave a mark. The ones who are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless. If you had a lifetime to talk, there would still be things left unsaid.: Sara Zarr, Sweehearts, 2008
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964), interview, 1959
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
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Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.: Marguerite de Valois