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"The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate."
Douglas Engelbart
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"There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience."
Chuck Tanner
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"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in."
Alan Alda
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"Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way."
Aaron Allston
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"It isn't the original scandal that gets people in the most trouble - it's the attempted cover-up."
Tom Petri
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"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
John Quincy Adams
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"A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience."
Elbert Hubbard
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"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
John Galsworthy
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"Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honour, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish."
David Mallet
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"If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin."
Katharine Butler Hathaway
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"Patience: a minor form of despair disguised as a virtue."
Ambrose Bierce
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"New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time."
James Agate
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"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation."
Oscar Wilde
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"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, silence is deep as eternity; speech is shallow as time."
Thomas Carlyle
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"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
Vincent Van Gogh
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"Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question."
Albert Camus
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"Words are like bullets; if they escape, you can't catch them again."
African proverb
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"No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn't become a crocodile."
Malian proverb
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"Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped."
African proverb
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"When your mouth stumbles, it's worse than feet."
African proverb
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"People should not talk while they are eating or pepper may go down the wrong way."
African proverb
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"Those whose palm-kernels were cracked for them by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble."
African proverb
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"The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity."
George Carlin
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"I'm all in favour of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
Frank Lloyd Wright
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"Seventy percent of success in life is showing up."
Woody Allen
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"It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure."
George H. Lewes
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"It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper."
Errol Flynn
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"Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble."
John Madden
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"The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."
Albert Schweitzer
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"Regardless of how you feel inside, always try to look like a winner. Even if you are behind, a sustained look of control and confidence can give you a mental edge that results in victory."
Arthur Ashe
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