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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.: Albert Ellis
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed.: Kanye West
Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry [economy].: William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), 'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.: Rodney Dangerfield (1921 - 2004)
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.: Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.: John Keats (1795 - 1821)
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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.: Edgar Watson Howe (1853 - 1937)
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.: Dick Cavett (1936 - )
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.: Louise Erdrich
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Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.: James F. Byrnes (1879 - 1972)
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In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation.: Roger Allen
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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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Treasure the love you have received above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
You can't change what you've done, so you might as well just take pride in it.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), De Divinatione
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I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake--which I also keep handy.: W. C. Fields (1880 - 1946)
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Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.: B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990), New Scientist, May 21, 1964
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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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