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So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.': Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.: A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)
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It's no accident that the church and the graveyard stand side by side. The city of the dead sleeps encircled by the city of the living.: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Lost and Found, 1992
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Be kind - Remember every one you meet is fighting a battle - everybody's lonesome.: Marion Parker
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.: Ben Stein
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The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.: Ann Radcliffe (1764 - 1823), The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1764
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Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.: Unknown
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Mark Twain's Notebook, 1935
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Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.: Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.: Beverly Sills (1929 - )
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), L'Envoi, 1882
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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It's all knowing what to start with. If you start in the right place and follow all the steps, you will get to the right end.: Elizabeth Moon, The Speed of Dark, 2003
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
Just because we've been dealt a certain hand, it doesn't mean that we can't choose to rise above - to conquer the boundaries of a destiny that none of us wanted. To try to retain whatever essential humanity we can.: Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic.": Richard Pryor (1940 - 2005), Guardian Unlimited (UK) August 9, 2004
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When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.: Czech Proverb
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