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You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.: John J. Plomp
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Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Fortune, Nov. 9, 1998
Being a celebrity has taught me to hide, but being an actor has opened my soul.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.: Cullen Hightower
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He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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Laughter is by definition healthy.: Doris Lessing
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It's never too late to be who you might have been.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.: Jewish Proverb
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Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.: Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
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If you continue to expend your energy trying to change things that don’t really matter in the long run or that are not within your sphere of influence, you’ll wind up exhausted and frustrated, with no positive results to show for your effort.: Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran, Joint Custody with a Jerk: Raising a Child with an Uncooperative Ex, 2011
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.: Stanley Walker
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In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.: Tom Nolan, in The Wall Street Journal
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.: Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!: Jerry Van Amerongen, Ballard Street, 08-18-05
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.: Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
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Stories don’t just make us matter to each other—maybe they’re also the only way to the infinite mattering he’d been after for so long.: John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
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I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations