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  • Bede Jarrett Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.
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  • Douglas Adams Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Arthur Koestler Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.
    Arthur Koestler
    Hungarian Born British Writer (1905 - 1983)
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  • William Shakespeare Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • E. M. Cioran Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
    French statesman (1754 - 1838)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Swindoll Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.
    Charles Swindoll
    American Pastor, writer
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  • Bill Burr Stand up comedy is this thing you get to do, so you have to treat it with respect. You can't just be like, 'Alright, I got my hour down, people are coming to see me now. Now, I'm going to lean on the mike stand.' No, you gotta work even harder now. You got to top what you already did. Because they'll find someone else.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Brenda Fassie Stars talk about how they dislike fans fussing over them, begging for autographs and things like that, but deep down inside, they love every minute of it.
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  • Barry Eisler Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Carol Bartz Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Howard Whitman Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.
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  • John Wooden Success is peace of mind, a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming, and not just in a physical way: seek ye first the kingdom and His righteousness and all these things will be yours as well.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Earl Wilson Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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  • Mark Twain Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Zoroaster Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to his body and soul.
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