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Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion.: Tina Fey, Vogue Interview, 2010
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Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
Getting caught is the mother of invention.: Robert Byrne
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Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.: Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Hocus Pocus
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
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Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's.: Linda Berdoll, Mr. Darcy Takes A Wife, 2004
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.: Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)
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The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.: Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
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Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Women are better at acting then men. Why? Because we have to be. If successfully convincing someone bigger than you are of something he doesn't want to know is a survival skill, this is how women have survived through the millennia.: Meryl Streep (1949 - ), Barnard Commencement Speech, 2010
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If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.: Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.: Clement Atlee
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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.: Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974)
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Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?: Al Boliska
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.: Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality (Harcourt)
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I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)