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Foxhunting... the unspeakable pursuing the inedible.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Author: Patty Hansen
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Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper.
Author: Gerald Early
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Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness.
Author: Faith Baldwin
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Character is the sum and total of a person's choices.
Author: P. B. Fitzwater
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Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
Author: Felix Frankfurter
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A little experience often upsets a lot of theory.
Author: Cadman
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A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.
Author: John Carey
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What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.
Author: Monica Baldwin
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With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.
Author: Alfred Glossbrenner
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Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
Author: Henry L. Doherty
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Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.
Author: Eldridge Cleaver
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I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.
Author: Herbert Henry Lehman
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Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
Author: Sarah Caldwell
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Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...
Author: Robert Collier
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When I am delivering my very best, then that is when I feel successful.
Author: Art Fettig
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My definition of success is total self acceptance. We can obtain all of the material possessions we desire quite easily, however, attempting to change our deepest thoughts and learning to love ourselves is a monumental challenge. We may achieve success in our business lives but it never quite means as much if we do not feel good inside. Once we feel good about ourselves inside we can genuinely lend ourselves to others.
Author: Franki
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Don't expect mangoes when you plant papayas.
Author: Mimfa A. Gibson
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The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.
Author: Joe Girard
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Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
Author: Don Stanford
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Author: Harlan Ellison
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Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
Author: Stanislaw J. Lec
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Author: Bonnie Lin
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Look alive. Here comes a buzzard.
Author: Lady Stella Reading
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Author: Gwynn Thomas
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The mark of a good leader is to know when it's time to follow.
Author: Susie Switzer
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The end and aim of all education is the development of character.
Author: Francis W. Parker
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Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
Author: John Dewey
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I quote others in order to better express myself.
Author: Montaigne
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If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. - Mannequin: My Life as a Model.
Author: Carolyn Kenmore
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Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect.
Author: Periander
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Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?"This is commonly misquotes as "You can't have you're cake and eat it, too. - John Heywood's Proverbs, 1546.
Author: John Heywood
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When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'.
Author: Sydney Harris
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
Author: A. C. Benson
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Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. - The Business of Life.
Author: William Feather
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The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
Author: Joan Borysenko
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Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Author: Harvey Fierstein
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The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Author: Theodore Rubin
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This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.
Author: Scott Reed
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Good questions outrank easy answers.
Author: Paul A. Samuelson
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To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
Author: John Dewey
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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.
Author: Sam Ewig
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Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Author: Margaret Fuller
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Author: Igor Stravinsky
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Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
Author: Josh Billings
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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Author: Ken Carey
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Author: Douglas Everett
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As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
Author: James A. Froude
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I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.
Author: Jennie Garth
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