I am defeated all the time, yet to victory I am born. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Happy are men who yet before they are killed, can let their veins run cold. ~Wilfred Owen
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What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted; it was borrowed, spent, and wasted. ~Paul Ryan
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Be diligent, and God will send profit. ~Arabic Proverb
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Though they may not always be handsome, men doomed to evil posses the manly virtues. ~Jean Genet
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Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust. ~Rebecca West
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will ... dramatically up the odds of a wow outcome! ~Tom Peters
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Life is tough, but it is tougher when you are stupid. ~John Wayne
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A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on. ~French Proverb
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I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, "Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?" ~Kevin Connolly
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality. ~Ralph Marston
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Translation is not a matter of words only, it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. ~Anthony Burgess
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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I always say to my Twitter followers to come to the stage door and meet me. What I love about being in the theatre, rather than filming, is that you meet your audience. ~Sheridan Smith
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A journey of a thousand miles always begins with one step. ~Ancient Egyptian Proverb
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Before you begin on the journey of revenge, dig two graves. ~Proverb
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The journey is the reward. ~Chinese Proverb
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Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, the positive pronounce without dismay. ~William Cowper
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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The generous is never satisfied with riches. ~Arabic Proverb
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As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course. ~Barack Obama
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A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in. ~Robert Orben
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That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. ~Rumi
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