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Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.: George Washington (1732 - 1799)
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To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?: Vince Lombardi (1913 - 1970)
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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When you own or take responsibility for your feelings, you place yourself in a position of power and control.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
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You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.: Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008
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What is food to one, is to others bitter poison.: Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura
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Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.: Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
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Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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If an idea's worth having once, it's worth having twice.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand upon.: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 - 1902)
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.: Ernst Haas, Comment in workshop, 1985
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I stand in awe of my body.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
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Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.: Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923)
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.: Henry Kissinger (1923 - ), Wilson Library Bulletin, March 1979
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