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Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

—Bill Gates

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I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.

—Susan Glaspell

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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

—Jewish Proverb

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Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important, and wishing never works.

—David Shore

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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

—Jerry Chin

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People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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You must dare to disassociate yourself from those who would delay your journey... Leave, depart, if not physically, then mentally. Go your own way, quietly, undramatically, and venture toward trueness at last.

—Vernon Howard

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Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

—Frank Scully

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

—Peter McWilliams

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Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.

—Matthew Prior

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I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

—Og Mandino

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Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, / Beloved from pole to pole.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect.

—William Shakespeare

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We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

—William Arthur Ward

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