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"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, On becoming a writer, NY Times 21 Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine May you be too good for the world and not good enough for your wife. "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
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-- W. Somerset Maugham You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
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-- Irwin Sarason Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because
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-- Mark Twain Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
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successfully If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,
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--Loesje The full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Sir Winston Churchill Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for
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-- George bernard Shaw Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
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-- Mortimer J. Adler Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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-- Hunter S. Thompson I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge.
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-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Kites
When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes.
-- Elizabeth Ashley To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
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