#240 Being single

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Gordon Parks

"The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed."

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Epicurus

"The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully."

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Margaret Fuller

"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."

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W. Somerset Maugham

"The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore."

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#241 When everyone you’re eating with at the restaurant agrees you made the best choice

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Ann Richards

"There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money."

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Hugh Macleod

"If you're creative, if you can think independently, if you can articulate passion, if you can override the fear of being wrong, then your company needs you now more than it ever did. And now your company can no longer afford to pretend that isn't the case."

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Freeman Dyson

"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment."

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Robert Service

"Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe."

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#242 When the mug you’re warming up in the microwave stops with the handle pointing towards you

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Jennifer Hudson

"Just as I had to go through a transition period, I guess [my friends and family] did, too."

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Indira Gandhi

"We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."

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Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star."

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Julia Child

"You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients."

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#243 Having a staring contest with a baby

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Michael Patrick King

"Nothing else exists when art does."

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Bible

"Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure."

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Gretel Ehrlich

"Walking is also an ambulation of mind."

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John Constable

"I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."

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#244 Kids helping their little brother or sister across the street

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Barack Obama

"You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism."

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Jason Fried

"Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure."

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Josephine demott Robinson

"My one aim was to do a thing well and to excel if possible."

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Colin Powell

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

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Ann Radcliffe

"When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction."

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Robert Rodriguez

"Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves."

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Sir Winston Churchill

"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."

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Wilfred A. Peterson

"The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it."

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Stephen Covey

"One of the most important ways to manifest integrity is to be loyal to those who are not present. In doing so, we build the trust of those who are present."

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Randy K. Milholland

"The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense."

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D. H. Lawrence

"How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression."

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#245 Cool moms

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Ingrid Bergman

"A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes unnecessary."

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Sarah Orne Jewett

"A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing... It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return."

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George Santayana

"Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him."

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Phyllis Mcginley

"A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away."

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#246 When you’re looking for a friend at the grocery store and then suddenly spot them at the end of an aisle after looking for them everywhere else

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Oprah Winfrey

"My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good."

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Scott Adams

"Frankly, I�m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue."

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Heidi Wills

"We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief."

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Jean Houston

"We all have the extraordinary coded within us, waiting to be released."

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#247 Drinking anything besides wine out of a wine glass

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Bernadette Peters

"You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?"

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James Joyce

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

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Sir Francis Bacon

"Knowledge is power."

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#248 Digging out your own little wading pool in the sand when you’re at the beach

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Scott Westerfeld

"Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you."

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David Russell

"Anything you could ever want or be you already have and are."

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Robert J. Sawyer

"Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace."

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Ed Macauley

"When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win."

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#249 Putting a slice of lasagna on a plate and having it all stay together

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Meryl Streep

"Empathy is at the heart of the actor's art."

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Martha Burgess

"Live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's."

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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them."

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Jane Austen

"My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."

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Jeffrey Kalmikoff

"It's not a 9-5 job. It's an every moment you're awake job because you actually enjoy the work that you're doing."

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Solon

"In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."

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Julie A., M.A. Ross and Judy Corcoran

"If you continue to expend your energy trying to change things that don�t really matter in the long run or that are not within your sphere of influence, you�ll wind up exhausted and frustrated, with no positive results to show for your effort."

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Edith Sitwell

"The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves."

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Suze Orman

"It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand."

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Catherine de Hueck

"With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing."

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#250 Inventing new words and phrases with your friends that only make sense to you

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Harold Bloom

"We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own."

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Henry David Thoreau

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."

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Alexander Pope

"Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend."

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body."

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#251 When none of the peas fall off your fork on the way to your mouth

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Laura Moncur

"Mighty hard to tell the people you love you're a failure."

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Epictetus

"Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent."

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Katharine Hepburn

"Without discipline, there's no life at all."

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Frank Tyger

"Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble."

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#252 Taking your makeup off after wearing it for hours

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Charles de Gaulle

"We may go to the moon, but that's not very far. The greatest distance we have to cover still lies within us."

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Zelda Fitzgerald

"She was conscious that the things she did were the things she had always wanted to do."

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Dr. Thomas Dooley

"Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end."

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Henri Matisse

"Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us."

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#253 Optimistic Weather Dressers

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Paul Graham

"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as "suits.""

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Martha Nussbaum

"But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer."

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

"With age come the inner, the higher life. Who would be forever young, to dwell always in externals?"

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E. B. White

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."

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#254 Finding a chocolate egg way after Easter

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John Muir

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."

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Mike Myers

"And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now."

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Benjamin Franklin

"If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life."

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions."

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Kathryn L. Nelson

"Do not run from the truth. There be nought so hard to live with as a lie."

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James Beard

"Food is our common ground, a universal experience."

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Cynthia Ozick

"Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey."

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Agatha Christie

"I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't luckily have to bother about that."

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John Green

"The best way to get people to like you is not to like them too much."

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Stephanie Barron

"I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved."

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John Adams

"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."

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Raymond Holliwell

"Desire creates the power."

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#255 That guy who brings treats to work on Friday

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Mason Cooley

"Regret for wasted time is more wasted time."

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Lois McMaster Bujold

"How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?"

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H. L. Mencken

"Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly."

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