Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back. ~Zhu Rongji
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Today, in the Internet gold rush, so many people go into dot-com jobs right from school or even before finishing. Their motivation is understandable, but sometimes they just lack experience. ~Mitch Kapor
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Man is a masterpiece of creation, if only because no amount of determinism can prevent him from believing that he acts as a free being. ~Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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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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Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The way life runs through everything, even the tiniest elements of nature; that makes me humble. It's the same humility that causes people at a certain time every day to get on their knees and put their foreheads on the ground in honor of something or someone. ~Michael J. Fox
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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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Gardening is a humbling experience. ~Martha Stewart
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The movies that work are the ones in which somebody very smart figured out how to take all the thematic material, all the character material, all the filigree, all the beautiful writing, and put it into a story. ~Scott Rudin
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I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous. ~Mel Brooks
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I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different. ~Ridley Scott
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If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. ~Henry David Thoreau
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It is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa. ~Jane Austen
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I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. ~Richard M. Nixon
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. ~Oprah Winfrey
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Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office! ~Laura Ingraham
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The most important of the Lord's work you will ever do will be the work you do within the walls of your own home. ~Harold B. Lee
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To create worry humans elongate fear with anticipation and memory, expand it in imagination and fuel it with emotion. The uniquely human mental process called worrying depends upon having a brain that can reason, remember, reflect, feel, and imagine. Only humans have a brain big enough to do this simultaneously and do it well. ~Edward Hallowell
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We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. ~Dick Cheney
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I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. ~Jon Scieszka
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Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
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While cares will drop off like autumn leaves. ~John Muir
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Every knock is a boost. ~Elbert Hubbard
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Where life plants you, bloom with grace. ~French Proverb
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