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  • Pearl Bailey A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • Bruce Campbell A cult classic is one that has been fully embraced by an alternative audience, not the popular audience.
    Bruce Campbell
    American actor, writer and director (1958 - )
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  • Sydney Justin Harris A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past; he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Charles Dickens A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Brene Brown A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don't function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Ayn Rand A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Anne Enright A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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    Anne Enright
    Irish writer (1962 - )
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  • Brendan I. Koerner A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Elbert Hubbard A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • B. F. Skinner A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Arthur Bloch A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
    Arthur Bloch
    American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books (1948 - )
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  • Bill Cosby A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Jean Rostand A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Anton Chekhov A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Susan Sontag A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • William Blake A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Thomas Fuller A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Carson Daly A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Samuel Butler A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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