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You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
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Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), quoted by Susan Litwin in 'TV Guide'
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
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Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others.
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Edward L. Flom
Even writers need relief from words.
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Sarah Vowell, O Magazine, March 2009
If the point is sharp, and the arrow is swift, it can pierce through the dust no matter how thick.
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Bob Dylan (1941 - )
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
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James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
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Miriam Beard
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
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Harriet Martineau (1802 - 1876)
God must become an activity in our consciousness.
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Joel S. Goldsmith
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
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Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough For Love
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
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Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948), 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919
It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.
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Al Franken, 'Stuart Saves His Family'
Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.
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Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
The way we see the problem is the problem.
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Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don't like you.
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Tina Fey, Golden Globes Acceptance Speech, 2009
Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.
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Eric Gibson, in The Wall Street Journal
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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