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  • We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
  • I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
  • I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.
  • You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
  • Man is an intelligence, not served by, but in servitude to his organs.
  • A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
  • Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.
  • I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
  • A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
  • Man has his will, but woman has her way.
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  • William Shakespeare Love all, but trust a few.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Rabindranath Tagore Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
    Rabindranath Tagore
    Indian mystic and poet (1861 - 1941)
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  • John Wooden Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Aristotle Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way - this is not easy.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Josh Billings Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Oscar Wilde Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Faith Baldwin Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
    Faith Baldwin
    American author of romance and fiction (1893 - 1978)
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  • John A. Shedd A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
    John A. Shedd
    American author and professor
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  • Gore Vidal A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Umberto Eco A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Joseph Addison The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Acharya Mahapragya Thinking is good, but excessive thinking is not. Between thoughts if there is a period of thoughtlessness, thoughts will be fresh and pathbreaking. A thinker will be able to cultivate a strain of healthy thoughts only when he pays attention to thoughtlessness also.
    Thought at Sunrise (2007)
    Acharya Mahapragya
     
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  • Jonathan Swift A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • William Shakespeare As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Joseph Addison Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • William Shakespeare 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Katherine Mansfield : I must say I hate money but it's the lack of it I hate most.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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