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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

—Pearl Buck

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The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.

—Jane Goodall

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Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

—Brittany Murphy

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Interestingly, from an identity standpoint, what does it mean to have a disability? Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do and nobody calls her disabled.

—Aimee Mullins

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We all have such a finite time to leave the world better than we found it.

—Dave Kellett

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Sometimes people do things that hurt and it's not because they mean to. They just do. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with you, but you end up hurt because of it.

—Randy K. Milholland

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War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.

—M. F. K. Fisher

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Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

—W. Somerset Maugham

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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

—Marlene Dietrich

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I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

—Ayn Rand

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Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

—George MacDonald

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Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.

—T. S. Eliot

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I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.

—Steve Jobs

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Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

—Publilius Syrus

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It's not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed, it is the things we do not.

—Randy Pausch

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