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The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
Duty
William R. Alger

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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Consistency
Bernard Berenson

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The good ideas are all hammered out in agony by individuals, not spewed out by groups.
Creativity
Charles Browder

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Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.
Pain
William C. Bryant

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Action
Warren Buffett

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There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Vanity
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
Possibilities
Richard M. DeVos

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Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
Grief
Benjamin Disraeli

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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
Bores and Boredom
Benjamin Disraeli

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I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
Cities and City Life
Michael Douglas

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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
Jealousy
Havelock Ellis

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Hitch your wagon to a star. Let us not fag in paltry works which serve our pot and bag alone.
Vision
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
Humor
Mahatma Gandhi

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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
Enemies
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
Competition
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Acting is happy agony.
Acting and Actors
Sir Alec Guiness

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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.
Peace
William Hazlitt

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A hundred wagon loads of thoughts will not pay a single ounce of debt.
Thoughts and Thinking
Italian Proverb

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Don't agonize. Organize.
Victims
Florynce R. Kennedy

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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
Fear
John Maynard Keynes

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All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
Freedom
Rudyard Kipling

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You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Leaders and Leadership
John Knox

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The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
Image
Milan Kundera

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Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Newspapers
Norman Mailer

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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
Men and Women
H. L. Mencken

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