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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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He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.: Albert Pike
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?: Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.: Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906)
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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.: Don Herold
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Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech prepared for delivery in Dallas the day of his assassination, November 22, 1963
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The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good shit and give it away as fast as you can.: Lisa Williams, The Lessons of Nixon, 05-19-06
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.: Tennessee Williams (1911 - 1983), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
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Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.: Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, 'A Woman of Independent Means'
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), The Gay Science, section 41
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Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.: Grenville Kleiser
A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.: John Updike (1932 - ), Assorted Prose (1965)
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Love is the big booming beat which covers up the noise of hate.: Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-15-04
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), on Shakespeare
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The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.: John Allen, A network called 'Internet', CBC, 10-08-93
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
In heaven all the interesting people are missing.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.: George Herbert (1593 - 1633)