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  • Bill Parcells There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.
    Bill Parcells
    American coach in the NFL (1941 - )
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  • Ben Folds There's never gonna be a moment of truth for you
    While the world is watching
    All you need is the thing you forgotten
    And that's to learn to live with what you are.
    Lyrics Learn to Live with What You Are, Supersunnyspeedgr
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Ben Platt There's something to be said for any boy growing up among lots of other boys who like to play basketball and football, while all I wanted to do was put on musicals. Mentally, I was always in my own world.
    Ben Platt
    American actor, singer, and songwriter (1993 - )
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  • Adrienne Rich They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Harold Wallace Ross Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.
    Harold Wallace Ross
    American journalist and founder of The New Yorker (1892 - 1951)
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  • Bernhard von Bulow This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.
    Bernhard von Bulow
    German diplomat and politician (1849 - 1929)
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  • William James This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Johnson This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Alice James Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Tennessee Williams Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • William Hazlitt To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Henry Drummond To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
    Henry Drummond
    Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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  • Og Mandino To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Baltasar Gracián To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Anna Louise Strong To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
    Anna Louise Strong
    American journalist and activist (1885 - 1970)
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  • Barbara Walters To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Bernadette Devlin To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
    The Price of My Soul
    Bernadette Devlin
    Irish civil rights activist (1947 - )
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