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  • Emily Dickinson Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Lucille Ball Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • Bill Bryson Maine is wonderful. It can be very hard. I mean, if you look at the profile maps it doesn't look it, but somehow when you get out there it's really steep and hard.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Beeban Kidron Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Lillian Smith Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
    Lillian Smith
    American writer (1897 - 1966)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas Maybe because she doesn't try so hard to seduce and impress, I guess that's why some guys fell for her. Because she's so different and crazy and we all like a little bit of that in our life.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Queen Victoria Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Chaim. Weizmann Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.
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  • Al Franken Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Brit Marling Modern life has gotten so strange, we all get 150 emails and text messages a day, and it's hard when things are moving that quickly to keep that sense of wonder about being alive.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Earl Wilson Money in the bank is like toothpaste in the tube. Easy to take out, hard to put back.
    Earl Wilson
    American columnist (1907 - 1987)
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  • Lewis H. Lapham More than illness or death, the American journalist fears standing alone against the whim of his owners or the prejudices of his audience. Deprive William Safire of the insignia of the New York Times, and he would have a hard time selling his truths to a weekly broadsheet in suburban Duluth.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
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  • Carter Burwell Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation.
    Carter Burwell
    American composer of film scores (1954 - )
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  • Cam Newton Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Bernard Malamud Mourning is a hard business, Cesare said. If people knew there'd be less death.
    Life is Better than Death, in Idiots First
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Bob Seger My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it's pretty cool because we all pull together, and it's fun. It's like being on a sports team or something.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Bill Kelly My cousin is an agoraphobic homosexual, which makes it kind of hard for him to come out of the closet.
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  • Bryce Harper My dad, he worked rebar, an ironworker. Watching my pops get up every single morning, going into work, working hard - I think that really made me want to work that hard, wanted to make me get up early and go for a run or get a lift in or get some extra hitting in and really try to better myself every day.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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