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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

—Lord Chesterfield

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And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.

—Ann Radcliffe

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Go after what it is that creates meaning in your life and then trust yourself to handle the stress that follows.

—Kelly McGonigal

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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

—William Faulkner

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Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

—Greg Child

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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

—Henry Ward Beecher

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To play it safe is not to play.

—Robert Altman

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Privacy and security are those things you give up when you show the world what makes you extraordinary.

—Margaret Cho

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Character develops itself in the stream of life.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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That fear you have, that someone out there is going to try and do what we do better, faster, or more uniquely is real. And what is just as real is that we can win by being smarter and moving faster.

—Kevin Turner

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Time is something you can't replace.

—Nadine Gordimer

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The essence of self-discipline is to do the important thing rather than the urgent thing.

—Barry Werner

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The fact is, sometimes it's hard to walk in a single woman's shoes. That's why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun.

—Jenny Bicks

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I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull.

—Stephanie Barron

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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.

—Rene Descartes

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