Stephen Ambrose

"The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future."

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Ecclesiastes

"Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days."

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Sophocles

"What you cannot enforce, do not command."

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W. S. Gilbert

"Things are seldom what they seem, skim milk masquerades as cream."

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Meryl Streep

"While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world."

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Hugh Macleod

"The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended."

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Jeff Melvoin

"I'm not judging people, I'm judging their actions. It's the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental."

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Cicero

"Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

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#175 When your footsteps line up perfectly with the black and white floor tiles

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W. Somerset Maugham

"When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable."

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

"Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness."

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George Matthew Adams

"In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice."

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Sir Winston Churchill

"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."

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#176 Getting tiny chores done before the microwave dings

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William Shakespeare

"Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."

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Abraham Lincoln

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."

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Beverly Sills

"I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter."

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#177 Grandma emails

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Og Mandino

"Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt."

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Alanis Morissette

"I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament."

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Kin Hubbard

"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket."

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Henry Fielding

"Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil."

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#178 When you hear someone’s smile over the phone

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Epictetus

"Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast."

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Irish Proverb

"Praise youth and it will prosper."

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Harper Lee

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."

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Madeleine L'Engle

"A life lived in chaos is an impossibility..."

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#179 Getting your ID checked when you’re way over the legal age

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John Grogan

"We could have bought a small yacht with what we spent on our dog an dall the things he destroyed. Then again, how many yachts wait by the door all day for your return?"

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Gordon Atkinson

"EVERY path may lead you to God, even the weird ones. Most of us are on a journey. We�re looking for something, though we�re not always sure what that is. The way is foggy much of the time. I suggest you slow down and follow some of the side roads that appear suddenly in the mist."

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Japanese Proverb

"When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends."

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Simone Weil

"Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty."

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Daniel Webster

"Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth our powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."

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Paul "Bear" Bryant

"It's not the will to win that matters...everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."

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Michael J. Fox

"One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered."

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Hesiod

"He harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner."

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Jennifer Hudson

"We can�t let our insecurities own or destroy us. We have to face them head-on. That was part of the challenge that motivated me to take this journey. I wanted to see what I could do and, more important, I wanted to understand everything that was holding me back."

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a lifetime's experience."

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Abigail Adams

"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

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George Santayana

"A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world."

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#180 Tripping and realizing no one saw you

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David P. Mikkelson

"Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few."

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Lois McMaster Bujold

"If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way."

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Gloria Pitzer

"About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age."

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Clifton Fadiman

"Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality."

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#181 Gravy

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Cory Doctorow

"Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time rich and cash poor."

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Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."

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Stanislaw J. Lec

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet."

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Brendan Francis

"If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it."

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#182 Spotting your house from the airplane window

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Jane Austen

"A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character."

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Elizabeth Aston

"What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage."

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Plato

"You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters."

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#183 Sleep lines

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Randy Pausch

"It's not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not."

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Seth Godin

"Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pretty easy to win. Setting your own standards--and living up to them--is a better way to profit. Not to mention a better way to make your day worth all the effort you put into it."

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John F. Kennedy

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."

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Pearl Buck

"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up."

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#184 Hands-free-everything bathrooms

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Ken Keyes Jr.

"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror."

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing."

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John W. Gardner

"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light."

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Sara Zarr

"Life was mostly made up of things you couldn't control, full of surprises, and they weren't always good. Life wasn't what you made it. You were what life made you."

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Chuck Palahniuk

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known."

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Steve Jobs

"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it."

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Winifred Holtby

"The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing."

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Rabbi Abraham Heschel

"Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy."

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Harry Emerson Fosdick

"Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to."

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Jewish Proverb

"Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house."

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Jean Nidetch

"It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny."

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#185 Splashing somebody beside the pool with a cannonball

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Kathy Sierra

"We are all human, and caring about the way something looks and feels does not mean we're superficial--it means we're human. We don't need to exploit sex to recognize that a certain amount of sexiness is both pleasurable and natural."

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Colleen Wainwright

"This is pretty much what journals are all about, at least to me. I knew as I wrote them that even though they provided an excellent place for brain (and heart, and psyche) dump, they were mainly a map of me."

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Charles Caleb Colton

"Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give."

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Evelyn Underhill

"After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life."

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#186 When your friends with kids don’t just talk about their kids

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Alan Moore

"Part of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore."

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Phil Jackson

"Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing."

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Katharine Graham

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

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Amelia Earhart

"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace."

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#187 That moment just before you fall asleep when you know you’re about to fall asleep

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Hugh Elliott

"You can call it the 'Perfect Moment' when the universe aligns and the music in your head actually matches the music outside and all is well."

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Liberace

"Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself."

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Pablo Picasso

"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."

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Keri Hulme

"It's the possibility that when you're dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me."

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#188 Hoods

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Stephen Covey

"The way we see the problem is the problem."

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David Viscott

"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."

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Seneca

"To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to."

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#189 Anything that gets you really, really sweaty

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Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

"What a beautiful, sunny morning. It makes you happy to be alive, doesn't it? We can't let the sun outshine us! We have to beam, too!"

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Rene Descartes

"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well."

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Horace

"Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even."

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Joss Whedon

"Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void."

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John Green

"You can see into the future if you have a basic understanding of how people are likely to act."

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Francis Ford Coppola

"You don�t have to specialize - do everything that you love and then, at some time, the future will come together for you in some form."

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William Hazlitt

"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves."

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Kahlil Gibran

"The deeper sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain."

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