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The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

-- Charles Du Bos

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There are a million and one excuses for not wearing a safety belt. Some are real killers.

-- American Safety Council

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The safest car in the world is one that never leaves the garage.

-- David Champion, director of automobile testing at Consumer Reports magazine.

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How safe a vehicle is depends a lot on the way it's driven.

-- David Champion, director of automobile testing at Consumer Reports magazine.

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Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction.

-- Cowboy wisdom

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In safety, do not forget danger; in peace, do not forget disorder.

-- Chinese proverb

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The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any- price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

-- Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), U.S. Republican (later Progressive) politician, president. letter (Jan. 10, 1917).

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

-- Andrew Carnegie

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Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.

-- Aubrey Eben

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Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

• 
  
  • ~ Stephen Hawking
  
  

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The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms ... once had a vast and perhaps perfect science of its own, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.

-- D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, (1885–1930), British author. Originally published by T. Seltzer (1922). Fantasia of the Unconscious, foreword, Viking Compass (1960).

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

-- Mark Twain

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In his father's opinion Jimmy couldn't screw in a light bulb. So who wants to screw in a light bulb? says the voice in Snowman's head, a stand-up comic this time. I'd rather do it in bed.

-- Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake

This is really dumb just stated outright, but it was hilarious in context.

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In a New Jersey Sea Scout camp situated right on the shore, the tradition was to throw the remains of the supper into the sea to feed the porpoises.

This nightly ritual was begun with the cook ringing the dinner bell, summoning the campers with the phrase, "For all intents and purposes."

(Best if read out loud in a strong "Joisy" accent.)

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There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.

-- Old equine expression

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One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

-- William Lyon Phelps

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I only answer to two people, myself and God.

-- Cher

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This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

-- William Shakespeare

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Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.

-- Ray Bradbury

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The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear.

-- William Jennings Bryan

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To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

-- Katherine Graham

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Time and money spent in helping men do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

-- Henry Ford

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He can do more for others who has done most with himself.

-- S.D. Gordon

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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

~  Lucille Ball

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

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My only to-die moments in life have been when I've lost my self-respect.

~ Lucille Ball

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Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within.

-- Steven H. Coogler

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Safety sells.

-- David Champion, director of automobile testing at Consumer Reports magazine.

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My Beautiful! My beautiful! that standest meekly by
With thy proudly-arch'd and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye,
Fret not to roam the desert now, with all thy winged speed;
I may not mount on thee again--thou'rt sold, my Arab steed!

-- Caroline Norton (1808-1877), Irish writer

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He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.

-- Epictetus

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The word serendipity was formed by English author Horace Walpole (1717-1797) from Serendip (also Serendib), an old name for Sri Lanka, in reference to a Persian tale, The Three Princes of Serendip, whose heroes "discovered, quite unexpectedly, great and wonderful good in the most unlikely of situations, places and people."

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The most important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative, and the second disastrous.

-- Margaret Fontey

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To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

-- Donald A. Adams

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Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.

-- Woody Allen

Now, that caught me by surprise (appearing as it did at the end of a discussion on Sigmund Freud) and made me laugh out loud, guffaw, even... Most unlady-like.

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"Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions."

-- Woody Allen

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"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less."

-- Brendan Behan (1923-1964)

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"It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty."

-- George Burns

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Sex. God's biggest joke on human beings.

-- Bette Davis

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"Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact."

-- Marlene Dietrich

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"As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision."

-- Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927.

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"A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't."

-- Murphy's Law of Sex

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"Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"

-- William Shakespeare

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"Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play."

-- Thomas Szasz, Sex by Prescription

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"Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven."

-- Mark Twain

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"It is better to be looked over than overlooked."

-- Mae West

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Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

-- Karl Kraus (1874–1936), Austrian satirist

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There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

-- Beverly Sills

Don't skinny dip with snapping turtles.

-- Anonymous

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Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

To ride again
Where the keen wind blows all balsam sweet
And the war sun shines...
To follow once more the high hill trails,
I and my horse together.

-- Sharlot M. Hall, "The Silver Spurs", from Poems of a Ranch Woman

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Enjoy the simple things. When the children are young, that is all that you can afford. When they are in college, that is all that you can afford. When you are on retirement, that is all that you can afford.

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Lazy and Quarrelsome are ugly sisters.

-- Anonymous

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My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.

-- Marshall Ferdinand Foch (1851-1929), supreme commander of allied forces in 1918.

Teachers, bankers, and hoot owls sleep with one eye open.

-- Anonymous

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I am thankful for small mercies. I compared notes with one of my friends who expects everything of the universe, and is disappointed when anything is less than the best, and I found that I begin at the other extreme, expecting nothing, and am always full of thanks for moderate goods.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The teeth are smiling. but is the heart?

-- Congolese Proverb

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We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling. May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping.

-- Persian proverb

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A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.

-- English proverb

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Snowmen fall from Heaven unassembled.

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let it go--the
smashed word broken
open vow or
the oath cracked length
wise--let it go it
was sworn to
go

let them go--the
truthful liars and
the false fair friends
and the boths and
neithers--you must let them go they
were born
to go

let all go--the
big small middling
tall bigger really
the biggest and all
things--let all go
dear

so comes love

-- e.e.cummings

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No bird soars too high
If he soars with his own wings.

-- William Blake

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"The tabletop is not soild, but composed of the tiniest particles, which are themselves mostly space: what seems solid is really hole-riddled, more empty than full."

-- Robert K. J. Killheffer, August, 2002, Fantasy & Science Fiction, p. 23

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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

-- Henry David Thoreau

1. Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco.
2. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day.
3. There are 2 theories to arguing with a woman . .. neither works.
4. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
5. Always drink upstream from the herd.
6. If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
7. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it back in your pocket.
8. There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence and find out for themselves.
9. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
10. If you're riding' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.
11. Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back.
12. AND FINALLY: After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him .
The moral : When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

AND, ABOUT GROWING OLDER . . .

1) Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.
2) The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.
3) Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know why I look this way: I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't
paved.
4) When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.
5) You know you are getting old when every thing either dries up or leaks.
6) I don't know how I got over the hill without getting to the top.
7) One of the many things no one tells you about aging is that it is such a nice change from being young.
8) One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been.
9) Being young is beautiful, but being old is comfortable.
10) Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.
11) And finally, If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you are old.

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Knowing sorrow well, I learn to succor the distressed.

-- Virgil

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My soul is my great asset and my great misfortune.

-- D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930), British author. Letter, 13 May 1908 (published in The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, vol. 1, ed. by James T. Boulton, 1979).

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Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

-- Stéphane Mallarmé, (1842-98), French Symbolist poet. Variations sur un sujet, "Crise de Vers" (first published in La Revue Blanche, Paris, Sept. 1895).

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The soul can split the sky in two,
And let the face of God shine through.

-- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. Renascence, st. 8.

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A family on the throne is an interesting idea.... It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

All the same, Bagehot warned, the British monarchy’s “mystery is its life. We must not let in daylight upon magic.”

-- Walter Bagehot (1826–1877), British economist, critic. The English Constitution, ch. 3 (1867).

A bumble bee is faster than a John Deere tractor.

-- Anonymous

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There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

-- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-78), U.S. Democratic politician, vice president. Speech, 10 Dec. 1966, Adas Israel Synagogue, Washington, D.C.

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One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than 50 preaching it.

-- Knute Rockne

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Tip Of The Day

A little lemon and seltzer will remove those pesky ink stains after you've been fingerprinted.

-- Martha Stewart

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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

-- Henry Ward Beecher

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[I]n his case, restrained ultimately meant boring, as the audience was lulled into a somnolent state.

-- Teresa Wiltz, "The Hip, the Flip, the Flop," Washington Post, March 3, 2000

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It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"The stars are not mere points of light; they are huge balls of fiery gas, unimaginably distant Olympian campfires around which other worlds might huddle."

-- Robert K. J. Killheffer, August, 2002, Fantasy & Science Fiction, p. 22.

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"He who still sees the stars as 'up' does not perceive with the eye of truth."

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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The autumn colors reflected in the lake,
And little leaves floating about
Like mighty sailboats
With everywhere to go;
My hearty steed and I, like the leaves,
With everywhere to go!

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When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

-- Walt Whitman

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"There's something about riding down the street on a prancing horse that makes you feel like something, even when you ain't a thing."

-- Will Rogers

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Strong women only marry weak men.

-- Bette Davis

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Shallow men believe in luck, believe in circumstances -- it was somebody's name, or he happened to be there at the time, or it was so then, and another day would have been otherwise. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be no help." -
From the address President Kennedy never got to deliver in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963.

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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

-- Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

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Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

-- James Buckham

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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

-- Robert Browning

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One day in retrospect the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

-- Sigmund Freud

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But "hard cheeses indurate, soft cheeses collapse." (Flaubert's Parrot). People don't change; they set in.

-- Antonia Quirke, "Jack of all Trades", New Statesman, October 29, 2001

My vision is to make the most diverse state on earth, and we have people from every planet on the earth in this state.  We have the sons and daughters of every, of people from every planet, of every country on earth.

-— Former California Gov. Gray Davis, during the recall campaign

I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.

-— Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean

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Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

-- Napoleon Bonaparte, (1769-1821)

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The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

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There are many ways to measure success; not the least of which is the way your child describes you when talking to a friend.

-- Unknown

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If at first you don't succeed, try and try again, then stop. No use being a damn fool about it!

--Unknown

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I want to remind you that success in life is based on hard slogging. There will be periods when discouragement is great and upsetting, and the antidote for this is calmness and fortitude and a modest yet firm belief in your competence. Be sure that your priorities are in order so that you can proceed in a logical manner, and be ever mindful that nothing will take the place of persistence.

-- Publisher and philanthropist Walter Annenberg in a letter to his son.

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Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

-- William J. H. Boetcker

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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. No other element can do so much for a man if he is willing to study them and make capital out of them.

-- Dale Carnegie

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The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.

-- W.J. Davison

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If I can do this, I can do anything.

-- Motto of Disabled Sports/USA

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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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He can do more for others who has done most with himself.

-- S.D. Gordon

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Aim at the sun and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if you had aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

-- F. Hawes

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Success lies in achieving the top of the food chain.

-- Jubal Harshaw, (1906 or 1907- ) Character in Robert A. Heinlein's novels

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Don't wait for your "ship to come in" and feel angry and cheated when it doesn't. Get going with something small.

-- Irene Kassorla

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The worst part of success is to try finding someone who is happy for you.

-- Bette Midler

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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.

-- General Colin Powell

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In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don't flinch, don't fall; hit the line hard.

-- Theodore Roosevelt

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control. These three alone lead to sovereign power.

-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Success doesn't "happen." It is organized, preempted, captured, by consecrated common sense.

-- F.E. Willard

Two can live as cheap as one if one doesn't eat.

-- Anonymous

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Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits.

-- Fulton Sheen

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Survival is not so much about the body, but rather it is about the triumph of the human spirit.

-- Danita Vance

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There are moments in life when true invective is called for, when it becomes an absolute necessity, out of a deep sense of justice, to denounce, mock, vituperate, lash out, in the strongest possible language.

-- Charles Simic, quoted in "The Argument Culture", Irish Times, December 17, 1998

You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar, assuming you want to catch flies.

-- Anonymous