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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But the soul of touring and the heart of it is basically every day is like putting up a circus tent. ~Pat Benatar
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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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In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and that illness and misfortune are caused and alleviated by spirits, ghosts, saints; and gods. ~Steven Pinker
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If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. ~Japanese Proverb
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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. ~Thomas Pynchon
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"A woman doesn't want to be told she looks nice," Jude nuttered as she sat down beside maud's grave. "She wants to be told she's beautiful, sexy. That she looks outrageous. It dosen't matter if its not true." She sighed and laid the flowers against the headstone. "Because for the moment, when the words are said and the words are heard, it's perfect truth." ~Nora Roberts
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Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing. ~Tom Jenkinson
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Listen to advice and accept correction, then in the end you will be wise. ~Proverb
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Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot. ~Dutch Proverb
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Laughter is the best medicine. ~Modern Proverb
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I have been, or seemed, hard with everyone because I was carried away by a sort of brutality born of my distrust in myself and my ill-humor. I have felt so badly equipped, so soft, in spite of the fact that my attitude towards art seemed to me so just. I was disgusted with everyone, and especially myself. ~Edgar Degas
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It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual. ~Ian Mcewan
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I never really thought about becoming a professional musician. ~John Mayall
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
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People talk about the '60s, but they were merely a mass production of what the '50s had begun. ~Peter O'Toole
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We developed during the 1990s a series of budget process rules that helped us bring to heel these deficits, diminishing every year and moving the budget so into surplus. ~John Spratt
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What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder but it has no soul. ~Sylvia Plath
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It is better to conceal one's knowledge than to reveal one's ignorance. ~Spanish Proverb
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A drink precedes a story. ~Irish Proverb
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Honesty is the soul of business. ~Dutch Proverb
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Conscience is the voice of the soul. ~Polish Proverb
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