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- I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- 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
- The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
- Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality
- You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984
- No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826)
- When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.
- Julia Cameron, The Vein of Gold
- It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 09-07-04
- Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.
- Sophia Loren (1934 - )
- Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), in Good Housekeeping
- Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
- Paul Theroux (1941 - ), in The Washington Post
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