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  • Barry Diller Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Brad Gilbert Sometimes when you're in the storm, it's harder and maybe when it's over, then you can look back on it.
    Brad Gilbert
    American tennis player (1961 - )
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  • Calvin Harris Sometimes, it's better to stop thinking and trust your instincts. That's what I used to do when I first started making music, but as time goes on, you can sometimes over-intellectualise things.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Bobby Hull Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.
    Bobby Hull
    Canadian ice hockey player (1939 - )
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  • Barbara Bush Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
    Barbara Bush: A Memoir
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Jean Paul Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Seneca Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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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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  • George Eliot Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bob Newhart Stammering is different than stuttering. Stutterers have trouble with the letters, while stammerers trip over entire parts of a sentence. We stammerers generally think of ourselves as very bright.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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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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  • W. C. Fields Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • W. C. Fields Start off everyday with a simple smile and get it over with.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Wayne Dyer Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
    Wayne Dyer
    American philosopher, self-help author, and a motivational speaker. (1940 - 2015)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Maxwell Maltz Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • John Ruskin Success by the laws of competition signifies a victory over others by obtaining the direction and profits of their work. This is the real source of all great riches.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Tom Cruise Talk is over-rated as a means of settling disputes.
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  • Annie Jump Cannon Teaching man his relatively small sphere in the creation, it also encourages him by its lessons of the unity of Nature and shows him that his power of comprehension allies him with the great intelligence over-reaching all.
    Annie Jump Cannon
    American astronomer (1863 - 1941)
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