The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential; these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ~Confucius
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ~Daniel Burnham
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Holy Writ was intended to teach men how to go to Heaven not how the heavens go. ~Galileo Galilei
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There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio; I don't know that guy. ~Bill Burr
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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Every great story seems to begin with a snake. ~Nicolas Cage
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In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart. ~Laozi
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Easy come, easy go. ~English Proverb
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save candles if the result is twins. ~Chinese Proverb
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ~Daisaku Ikeda
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Take the sum of human achievement in action, in science, in art, in literature subtract the work of the men above forty, and while we should miss great treasures, even priceless treasures, we would practically be where we are today. The effective, moving, vitalizing work of the world is done between the ages of twenty-five and forty. ~William Osler
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli. ~Jerome Bruner
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Worries go down better with soup. ~Jewish Proverb
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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
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You can almost taste the pressure now. ~Vin Scully
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"Feminist comedy," practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children. ~Grace Slick
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Better ask ten times than go astray once. ~Yiddish Proverb
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"You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television? ~James Patterson
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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