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  • Mark Twain All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then Success is sure.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Johnson Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carrie Fisher Along with aging comes life experience, so in every way that is consistent with even being human, Leia has changed.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Tatyana Tolstaya Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
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  • Anna Pavlova Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.
    Anna Pavlova
    Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
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  • Siddha Nagarjuna Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Always be nice to secretaries. They are the real gatekeepers in the world.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Edward Dahlberg Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Earl Nightingale Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Mary Caroline Richards Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.
    Mary Caroline Richards
    American poet, potter, and writer (1916 - 1999)
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  • Jimmy Carter America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
    Jimmy Carter
    American statesman, 39e President (1924 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they can control it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bono America is not just a country, it's an idea, and real Americans are getting busy.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • E. M. Forster America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • George W. Bush America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
    State of the Union, 20-01-2004
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Simon Hoggart America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Among all my patients in the second half of life... every one of them fell ill because he had lost what the living religions of every age have given their followers, and none of them has been really healed who did not regain his religious outlook.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Sydney Smith Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset An ''unemployed'' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Oscar Wilde An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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