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- If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.
- William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879)
- Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
- There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
- He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.
- Anonymous, (wrongly attributed to the Koran)
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.
- Lawrence Bixby
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