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- Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
- Sophia Loren (1934 - )
- No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?
- Becky Hartman Edwards and Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Escape from New York, 2000
- Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem NOW when the chocolates is next to us.
- Shlomo Bernartzi, TED Talk: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow, November 2011
- Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.
- Bill Gates (1955 - )
- He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.
- Albert Pike
- The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.
- Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
- The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, you will eventually lose touch with your own humanity.
- Gordon Atkinson, Real Live Preacher, 05-01-07
- Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
- Ward Jenkins, Ward-O-Matic, 03-14-2005
- Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.
- Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in "Harvey", 1950
- If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "King Henry IV Part I", Act 1 scene 2
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