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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again. Because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, he who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat".
Theodore Roosevelt
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Here, you can't live as you like - in any way or circumstance. You're like a bit out of those coloured mosaics in the hall, you have to fit in your own set, fit into your own pattern, because you're put there from the first. But you don't want to be like a fixed bit of a mosaic - you want to fuse into life, and melt and mix with the rest of folk, to have some things burned out of you.
D. H. Lawrence
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What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Frederich Nietzsche
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In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
R. A. Butler
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The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.
Holly Lisle
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Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Muriel Strode
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken
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One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.
Vincent van Gogh
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
Charlotte Bronte
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The fact that we don't know this man, isn't important really. Cause his experience is our experience, and his fate is our fate. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass, says the preacher. All is vanity I think that's a pretty good epitaph for all of us. When we're stripped of all our worldly possessions and all our fame, family, friends, we all face death alone. But it's that solitude in death that's our common bond in life. I know it's ironic, but that's just the way things are. Vani tass, vani tatum, et omni i vani tass. Only when we understand all is vanity, only then, it isn't.
Northern Exposure
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When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.
Real Live Preacher
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The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
Alan Alda
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Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
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I just bought a microwave fireplace. You can spend an evening in front of it in only eight minutes.
Steven Wright
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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder
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It's the place where my prediction from the sixties finally came true: "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, "In fifteen minutes everybody will be famous.
Andy Warhol
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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
Edward Abbey
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There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.
Horace
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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Hermann Hesse
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Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Alexandre Dumas
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Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.
James Thorpe
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Give me a place to stand, and I will move the Earth.
Archimedes
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Television has brought murder back into the home-- where it belongs.
Alfred Hitchcock
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You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
George W. Bush
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I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln
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A good home must be made, not bought.
Joyce Maynard
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One's first book, kiss, home run, is always the best.
Clifton Fadiman
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The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.
Douglas Adams
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We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started-- and know the place for the first time.
T.S. Elliot
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The rest is silence.
William Shakespeare
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No moral system can rest solely on authority.
A. J. Ayer
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What greater grief than the loss of one's native land.
Euripedes
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I should rather labor as another's serf, in the home of a man without fortune, one whose livelihood was meager, than rule over all the departed dead.
Homer
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Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Making duplicate copies and computer printouts of things no one wanted even one of in the first place is giving America a new sense of purpose.
Andy Rooney
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I have done some indiscreet things in my day, but this thing of playing myself for a prophet was the worst. Still, it had its ameliorations. A prophet doesn't have to have any brains. They are good to have, of course, for the ordinary exigencies of life, but they are no use in professional work. It is the restfulest vocation there is. When the spirit of prophecy comes upon you, you merely take your intellect and lay it off somewhere in a cool place for a rest, and unship your jaw and leave it alone; it will work itself. The result is prophecy. (A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Chapt 27)
Mark Twain
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae West
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Lawyer, n. One skilled in the circumvention of the law.
Ambrose Bierce
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What we choose to call sanity is a big house where the mad have no mothers.
The Clown Prince of Darkness
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