Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it.
Chief Seattle
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You can't lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
John Peers
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
Alan Alda
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If we live inside a bad joke, it is up to us to learn, at best and worst, to tell it well.
Jonathan Raban
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We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we complained so bitterly about our problems.
Mario Cuomo
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
W. Somerset Maugham
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You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?
Kahlil Gibran
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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
Jane Austen
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'Tis deeds must win the prize.
William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
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Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton Jr.
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It takes just as much strength to handle the good things that happen to you as the bad.
Evander Holyfield
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Hope... is not a feeling; it is something you do.
Katherine Paterson
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Everyone is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
Phaedrus
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We are all continually embarking on first drafts, in every aspect of our lives.
Jules Feiffer
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If you can walk you can run.
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There is strength in the union even of very sorry men.
Homer
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