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Quotes by American Authors
"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."
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"Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming."
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"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon."
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"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do."
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
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"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."
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"Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you."
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"I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair."
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"What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?"
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"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best."
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"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
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"Nothing you wear is more important than your smile."
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"Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces."
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"To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French."
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"TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch."
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"A manager is not a person who can do the work better than his men; he is a person who can get his men to do the work better than he can."
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"I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said."
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"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others."
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"Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything."
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"We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges."
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"When you walk into a room, a healthy, beautiful smile is incredibly important."
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"Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow."
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"Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants."
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"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it."
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"The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play."
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"We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders."
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"None of our competitors have ever made two systems that run the same software."
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"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit."
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"Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it."
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"If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you'll achieve the same results."
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"Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder."
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"Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites."
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"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story."
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"Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality."
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"We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction."
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