Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son. ~Russian Proverb
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I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go. ~Charles Bukowski
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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No ego, no pain. ~Zen Proverb
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I have always felt that kids are really smart. ~Michelle Trachtenberg
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I always stayed for the first curtain call and people always said, "Who's that?" But this got me started in acting. ~James Stewart
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After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through. ~Dee Dee Myers
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The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone. ~Martha Nibley Beck
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Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence. ~Jay Duplass
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Thousands of climate scientists agree that global warming is not only the most threatening environmental problem but also one of the greatest challenges facing all of humanity. We must demand a separation between oil and state. We can get off oil and slow global warming. ~Leonardo DiCaprio
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Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export. Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea; in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders. ~Thomas Sowell
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. ~Sigmund Freud
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There are two kinds of people; those who are always well and those who are always sick. Most of the evils of the world come from the first sort and most of the achievement from the second. ~Louis Dudek
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I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life. I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't. I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense. ~Randy Houser
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead. ~V. S. Naipaul
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It is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life. ~Jane Austen
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Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people. ~Jane Fonda
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Human beings are a wonderful virus in some ways. ~Ansel Elgort
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash. ~Amelia Earhart
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If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also. ~Russian Proverb
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I am kind of a grinder. I am a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights. ~Zach Johnson
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There is a fundamental difference between the Polish experience of the state and the Russian experience. In the Polish experience, the state was always a foreign power. So, to hate the state was a patriotic act. ~Ryszard Kapuscinski
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