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Bob Hope
I don't generally feel anything until noon then it's time for my nap.
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John Updike
Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
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Robert Browning
To do good thing in the world, first you must know who you are and what gives meaning to your life.
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Homer
I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.
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Derek Bethune
I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know.
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Aesop, Juno and the Peacock
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
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Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.
Yale's greatness carries an urgent need to guard against the fall of excellence into exclusivity, of refinement into preciousness, of elegance into class and convention.
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Leo Durocher
If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, 'Sorry, Mom, but nobody beats me.'
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William Shakespeare
I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
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Barbara Kingsolver, "Life Without Go-Go Boots" (personal essay)
High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Character is what can do without success.
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