You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to. ~Carol Plum Ucci
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You would think that Freddy Couples' Nick Price would be the team to beat, but I'll tell you in skins, it's a matter of just hitting it at the right time. ~Fuzzy Zoeller
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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. ~Theodore Roosevelt
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In very big companies, you find less entrepreneurialism than you really want to see. Success is defined as "don't make a mistake." And you get to be the C.E.O. by outlasting everybody else, then you're there for five or six years, and you want to get your bonus on the way out. ~Bernard L. Schwartz
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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Health care is not about insurance! Health care is about getting treatment. ~P. J. O'Rourke
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Music is the eye of the ear. ~Thomas Draxe
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I felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. ~Jewish Proverb
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I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people. ~Morton Gould
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Any nation that refuses to hold intercourse with other nations must expect to be excluded from this family. ~Townsend Harris
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I don't buy trends, because the pieces don't last and I wind up never wearing them. That's why I like to shop with my children; they'll always tell me the truth. ~Danielle Steel
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Offers for me to play dances, society parties, even churches, were now coming in regularly. For most dates I was paid the sum of one dollar per hour, and they always tipped me at the end of the night. ~Mary Lou Williams
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I got picked on a lot, even by teachers too. I liked to listen to musicals and bake, and my homeroom teacher found out and mocked me in front of the whole class for baking. ~Dan Savage
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Promise little and do much. ~Hebrew Proverb
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The necessity for "professionals" in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged. ~Jason Alexander
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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One dog barks at something, and a hundred bark at the bark. ~Chinese Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what this is. ~Stephen Chbosky
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When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. ~Paulo Coelho
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do. ~Laurel Clark
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Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets. ~American Proverb
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But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met. ~Norman Lear
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Charity sees the need, not the cause. ~German Proverb
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Those who play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~Proverb
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