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I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
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I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.: Stephanie Klein, Moose, 2008
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Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.: Cynthia Ozick
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.: Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
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All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.: Edward Gibbon (1737 - 1794)
I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.: Demetri Martin, New York Magazine, October 3, 2005
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.: Wendy Wasserstein (1950 - 2005), Isn't It Romantic, 1983
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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.: Christina Baldwin
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Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.: Margaret Peters
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.): Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Song of Myself"
Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it.: Seth Godin, Seth Godin's Blog, 07-28-06
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946), The End of Laissez-faire (1926) Ch. 1
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.: Woody Allen (1935 - )
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.: Anouk Aimee, O Magazine, October 2003
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It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand.: Suze Orman, O Magazine, February 2003
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.: Bible, Old Testament
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996), The Greatest Miracle in the World
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It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)