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- Nothing surely is as potent as a law that may not be disobeyed. It has the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small dainty task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.
- Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882), We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
- In most pursuits, one's self is one of the biggest hurdles to get over. You can't pursue something and be committed to it if you're apologizing for it at every party.
- Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
- [Detractors] are just wrong, and that's okay. They just don't see it yet. That's what I would tell myself to keep those moments of doubt, only moments.
- Lisa Kudrow, Vasser Commencement Address, 2010
- If you ever start to feel too good about yourself, they have this thing called the Internet, and you can find a lot of people there who don't like you.
- Tina Fey, Golden Globes Acceptance Speech, 2009
- If only corporal punishment cured low self-esteem.
- Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, She's A Bit of A Pout, author's note, 08-31-11
- They wouldn't call it falling in love if you didn't get hurt sometimes, but you just pick yourself up and move on.
- Gregory Thomas Garcia, Elijah Aron, Jordan Young, Raising Hope, Cheaters, April 2011
- Beware of no man more than yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but raptors are pretty dang scary.
- Devin J. Monroe (1983 - )
- Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell-you see, I have friends in both places.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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