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Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.: Dr. David M. Burns
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Never compare your inside with somebody else's outside.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 13, 08-22-04
One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.: Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.: Walter Winchell (1897 - 1972)
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He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915
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The greater man the greater courtesy.: Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860
Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled.: Michael Crichton (1942 - 2008), Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003
There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.: Clint Eastwood (1930 - )
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.: Erica Jong, O Magazine, 2003
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
If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.: Bradley's Bromide
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There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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The palest ink is better than the best memory.: Chinese Proverb
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Life is a long lesson in humility.: James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937)
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
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