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An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

-- Mohandas Gandhi

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People need trouble: a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance.
-- William Faulkner

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Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
-- Franz Kafka

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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
-- Thomas A. Edison

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Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
-- Eric Hoffer

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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
-- John Ruskin

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
-- David Starr Jordan

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That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
-- Charles Bukowski

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. -- Robert Louis Stevenson

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I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

-- Woody Allen

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When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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The newspapers came and made Jody a national hero
Walter and Eric said they'd put him on a network T.V. show
The White House said "Put the thing in the Blue Room"
The Vatican said "No, it belongs to Rome"
Jody said "It's mine but you can have it for seventeen million."

-- Creedence Clearwater Revival, "It Came Out Of The Sky"

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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

-- Paul Simon, "Train in the Distance"

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One foot in the door
The other foot in the gutter
The sweet smell that you adore
Yeah I think I'd rather smother.


-- The Replacements, "I Don't Know"

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

-- Thomas Carlyle

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Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you, but not in the one ahead.

-- Bill McGlashen

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We busted out of class
Had to get away from those fools
We learned more from a three-minute record
Than we ever learned in school.
-- Bruce Springsteen, "No Surrender"

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I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal components deaf. -- Pete Townshend

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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. -- Charles Bukowski

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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. -- Henry David Thoreau