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- There's no praise to beat the sort you can put in your pocket.
- Moliere (1622 - 1673)
- It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882)
- The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles DuBois
- Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
- Fulton J. Sheen
- Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
- Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
- I'm convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
- Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Interview, 1995
- The things that make us safest from others make us least from ourselves.
- Danah Boyd, apophenia, 01-08-07
- Good manners are just a way of showing other people that we have respect for them.
- Bill Kelly, Blast from the Past, 1999
- Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.
- Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, 2007
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
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