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Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

-- Samuel Beckett

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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

-- Napoleon Hill

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

-- William Feather

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Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

-- Henry Ford

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Half the failures of this world arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.

-- Augustus Hare

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Failure is only postponed success as long as courage "coaches" ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.

-- Herbert Kaufman

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I believe that one of the characteristics of the human race - possibly the one that is primarily responsible for its course of evolution - is that it has grown by creatively responding to failure.

-- Glen Seaborg

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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

-- Beverly Sills, (1929-2007) American operatic soprano

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Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

-- Unknown

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When you're young and you fall off a horse, you may break something. When you're my age and you fall off, you splatter.

-- Roy Rogers

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Fame then was cheap...
And they have kept it since, by being dead.

-- Dryden

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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say, "Hey, you look like ..." And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

-- Barbra Streisand

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Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

-- Gail Lumet Buckley, The Hornes: An American Family Knopf 1986

George Bush was not elected by a majority of the voters in the United States. He was appointed by God.

-—Lt. Gen. William Boykin, the defense undersecretary in charge of hunting down top terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan

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The journalists, bloggers, chefs and others who make up the Fat Pack combine an epicure's appreciation for skillful cooking with a glutton's bottomless-pit approach.

-- Kim Severson," The Fat Pack Wonders if the Party's Over", New York Times, March 18, 2004

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The Moving Finger writes; and having writ,
Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

-- Omar Khayyam

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The fates lead he who will; he who won't, they drag.

-- Seneca

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The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

-- Theodore Hesburgh

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Fautless to a fault.

-- Robert Browning

Whether exploited by traditional religions or political religions, psychological totalism -- the unquestioning
fealty to one God, one truth, and one right, embodied in one faith, one cause, one party -- has everywhere provided the tinder of persecution.

-- Jack Beatty, "The Tyranny of Belief," The Atlantic, September 13, 2000

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Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life?

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

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Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try to give their best qualities to men - bring them softness, teach them how to cry.

-- Joan Baez

Country fences need to be horse high, pig tight and bull strong.

-- Anonymous

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Asked the secret of his long marriage, Newman once said there was no reason to roam, asking, "I have steak at home. Why should I go out for a hamburger?"

(In 1958, Newman starred in "The Long Hot Summer" with Woodward, whom he married that year shortly after divorcing his first wife, Jacqueline Witte.)

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Every position must be held to the last man: there must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight on to the end.

-- Earl Douglas Haig (1861-1928), British general and commander of the Expeditionary Force in World War I

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We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

-- Francois Fenelon

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O! many a shaft, at random sent
Finds mark the archer little meant!

-- Sir Walter Scott

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I am willing to remain and play the man's game if there are not enough boats for more than the women and children. Tell my wife I played the game straight out and to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim is a coward.

-- Final words of Benjamin Guggenheim, millionaire, traveler aboard the ill-fated Titanic. As the boat began to sink, Guggenheim changed into formal dress and calmly faced death.

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The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

-- Benjamin Disraeli, (1804–1881), British statesman, author. Henrieta Temple, pt. 4, ch. 1 (1837).

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You only need two tools in life: WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and should, use the WD-40. If it shouldn't move and does, use the duct tape.

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A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

-- Douglas Adams

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There's one born every minute.

-- P. T. Barnum, (1810-1891)

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I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.

-- Yogi Berra

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One who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; one who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.

-- Chinese proverb

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Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.

-- Mark Twain

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Forget you? Not while I live...not if I die.

Forgive your enemies. It messes with their heads.

-- Anonymous

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Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would ... be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever, not unlike the sorcerer’s apprentice who lacked the magic formula to break the spell.

-- Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), U.S. philosopher. The Human Condition, ch. 33 (1958).

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One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.

-- Heinrich Heine, 1797-1856

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We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

-- Plato

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When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
                                                                ~ Yogi Berra

NPR: Books Podcast, 3/6/2014

Justin Kaplan, who edited the last two editions of Bartlet’s Quotes, in a 1992 interview, when asked his favorite quote, he gave one attributed to Yogi Berra: When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

-- Edith Hamilton

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The man who trades freedom for security usually ends up with neither.

-- Benjamin Franklin

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A friend is one who sees through you and still enjoys the view.

-- Wilma Askinas

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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is a good thing to be rich; it is a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends.

-- Euripedes

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The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

-- Charles Caleb Colton

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

-- George Bernard Shaw

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

-- Source Unknown

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The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him with his friendship.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

-- William Hazlitt

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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

-- George Bernard Shaw

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Life's about friendships, the way you love your partner, the way you care for your children. That is what life is about. Not anything about earning a hundred zillion dollars because you toured America more than anyone else. I want life to be about creativity.

-- Joe Strummer, former lead singer for the Clash rock band

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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

-- Mark Twain

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The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

-- Charles Caleb Colton

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Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joy, and dividing our grief.

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To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life.

-- Bette Davis

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To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

-- T.S. Eliot

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The future ain't what it used to be.

-- Yogi Berra

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If we succumb to a dream world, we will awake to a nightmare.

-- Jimmy Carter, speech to the Democratic National Convention when he stood for re-election.

The part that came after was good TOO, but I couldn't hold it all in my head long enough to get the window open.

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Our family put the fun in disfunctional.

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Always go to other people's funerals; otherwise they won't come to yours.

-- Yogi Berra