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We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

—Martin Luther King Jr.

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I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

—Sam Donaldson

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Hysteria is only possible with an audience.

—Chuck Palahniuk

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The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

—Amy Vanderbilt

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She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

—Jane Austen

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Underpromise; overdeliver.

—Tom Peters

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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

—Sir Robert Hutchinson

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There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.

—Jay Leno

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Sometimes the clearest mirrors come from those who are outside looking in.

—Jennifer Neal

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Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

—Albert Camus

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Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

—Horace Mann

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Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

—Ellen Goodman

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Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.

—Peter McWilliams

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It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat.

—Ali Vincent

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