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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
Goodness
George Orwell

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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
Progress
George Orwell

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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp?
Students
Sir William Osler

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Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
Ambition
Thomas Otway

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Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.
Time and Time Management
Thomas Otway

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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Familiarity
Ouida

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Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
Love
Mark Overby

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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
Achievement
Ovid

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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
Hope
Ovid

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Make a technical contribution; innovate, don't emulate.
Originality
David Packer

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Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
Averages
Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige

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What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so.
Knowledge
Leroy ''Satchel'' Paige

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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
Moderation
Thomas Paine

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Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.
Nicknames
Thomas Paine

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The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.
Truth
Mal Pancoast

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Gratitude -- the meanest and most sniveling attribute in the world.
Gratitude
Dorothy Parker

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This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.
Books - Reading
Dorothy Parker

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You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think.
Leaders and Leadership
Dorothy Parker

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You can get something done in a short time with fear, but in the long run it just doesn't pay off.
Fear
Wendell Parsons

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It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.
Ceremony
Blaise Pascal

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Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Rest
Blaise Pascal

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We must learn our limits. We are all something but none of us are everything.
Possibilities
Blaise Pascal

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Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end.
Experience
Walter Pater

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The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Preparation
Joe Paterno

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An executive is a man who decides; sometimes he decides right, but always he decides.
Executives
John H. Patterson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun