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Doris Fleeson
It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
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Whitney Young
The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
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Charles Kingsley
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay-- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
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Herman Melville
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Confucius, The Confucian Analects
There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness.
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Judy Garland
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of someone else.
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Robert Frost
The only way round is through.
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Jane Wagner
The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool.
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Adam Smith
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
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Doug Larson
There are worse things than getting a call for the wrong number at 4 AM. It could be the right number.
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Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.
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Roger Zelazny, The Courts of Chaos
I felt that I had done my duty. Nothing drove me now. I had run out of causes and was as close as I might ever be to peace. With all this behind me, I felt that if I had to die now, it was all right. I would not protest quite so loudly as I would have at any other time.
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