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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
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It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.: Sam Ewing
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To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)
You will need to find your passion. Don't give up on finding it because then all you're doing is waiting for the Reaper.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed)
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.: Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
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God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.: Anonymous, Graffito
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.: John Adams (1735 - 1826), Instructions to his son Johnny in the biography "John Adams" by David McCullough (p. 19)
The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.: John Green (1977 - ), Vlogbrothers, Why Does Congress Suck?, 01-01-13
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You never can see into someone else's marriage.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money. It lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Speeches... in the Trial of Warren Hastings, May 5, 1789
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You may delay, but time will not.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
When I see somebody 'suffering for their art', it's usually a case of them not knowing where that red line is, not knowing where the sovereignty lies.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 15, 08-22-04
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.: Baltasar Gracian
The case has, in some respects, been not entirely devoid of interest.: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes)
You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
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