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• Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

  Anne Frank

  Motivational, Positive, Work

  Anne Frank (1959). “Works”

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• We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Graduation, Educational, Willing To Learn

  Mary Catherine Bateson (2004). “Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery”

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• The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

  e. e. cummings

  Travel, Three, Rich

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• Rivers flow not past, but through us; tingling, vibrating, exciting every cell and fiber in our bodies, making them sing and glide.

  John Muir

  Past, Rivers, Cells

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• For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

  William J. Bernstein

  Love, Movie, Romantic

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• You can't handle the truth!

  Jack Nicholson

  Movie, Great Year, Hollywood Films

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• If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you've done and whoever you were and throw them away.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Artist, Creative

  Playboy Interview, genius.com.

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  Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Play, Fire

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 4

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• The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Life, Unrequited Love, Giving

  Joyce Carol Oates (1998). “The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque”, E P Dutton

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• Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Love, Movie, Romantic

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.70, Penguin

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• Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Friendship, Relationship, Positive

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130, 1992.

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• Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

  Barbara Walters

  Success, Nice, Women

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• To err is human, but it feels divine.

  Mae West

  Funny, Sexy, Clever

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

  Dorothy Parker

  Spring, Women, Years

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• Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

  Erma Bombeck

  Futility Of Life, Terrorism, Oblivion

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• His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.

  Dorothy Parker

  Women, Voice, Intimate

  Dorothy Parker (2002). “Complete Stories”, p.143, Penguin

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• You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

  Robin Williams

  Life, Philosophy, Bad Day

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• What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Technology, Best Job

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.86, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Success, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.56, Princeton University Press

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• A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.

  Albert Einstein

  Mistake, Academic Life, Roaring

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• It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

  Albert Einstein

  Character, Abhorrent, Fine

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.434, Princeton University Press

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• With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.

  Albert Einstein

  Stupid, Ironic, Irony

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.8, Princeton University Press

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• Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Reflection, Inner Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.239, Princeton University Press

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• Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'

  Robin Williams

  Father, Men, Actors

  "Flashback: Robin Williams’ 1998 Oscar Acceptance Speech" by David Humphreys, etcanada.com. August 12, 2014.

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• For everyone who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds - and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert. Those people would be legalized with the same act.

  Steve King

  Marijuana, People, Would Be

  "Rep. Steve King Slams Norquist Over Attacks on Immigration". Interview with Todd Beamon and John Bachman, www.newsmax.com. July 18, 2013.

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