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“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.”
Mark Twain
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“Pudd'nhead Wilson”
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1894
“You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your dream regardless of what anyone else says or thinks. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture—and even you can’t see it all.”
Oprah Winfrey
,
“What I Know For Sure”
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2014
“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
Ernest Hemingway
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“The Old Man and the Sea”
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1952
“It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”
Oscar Wilde
,
“The Picture of Dorian Gray”
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1890
“Nothing is more deceitful . . . than the appearance of humility.”
Jane Austen
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“Pride and Prejudice”
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28 January 1813
“I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.”
Oscar Wilde
,
“The Picture of Dorian Gray”
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1890
“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”
Nelson Mandela
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“Long Walk to Freedom”
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1995
“The heart lies and the head plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true.”
George R. R. Martin
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“A Game of Thrones”
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1996
“Families stand at the center of our society. And every family has a personal stake in promoting excellence in education.”
Ronald Reagan
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“State of the Union Address”
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25 January 1984
“Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.”
Ronald Reagan
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“State of the Union Address”
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25 January 1984
“Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.”
Ayn Rand
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“The Fountainhead”
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1943
“The only thing that matters, my goal, my reward, my beginning, my end is the work itself. My work done my way.”
Ayn Rand
,
“The Fountainhead”
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1943
“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“This Side of Paradise”
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1920
“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.”
Kenneth Grahame
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“The Wind in the Willows”
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1908
“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”
Isaac Asimov
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“Foundation”
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1951
“I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
,
“The Scarlet Letter”
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1850
“I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Self-Reliance”
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1841
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
Samuel Johnson
,
“The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia”
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1759
“But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.”
Jerome K. Jerome
,
“Three Men in a Boat”
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1889
“My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.”
Thomas Hardy
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“Tess of the d'Urbervilles”
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1891
