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" A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. "

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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" I'm a great believer in karma, and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me. "

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" The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night. "

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" Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. "

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" Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. "

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" Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. "

" Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.' "

" People who get into animation tend to be kids. We don't have to grow up. But also, animators are great observers, and there's this childlike wonder and interest in the world, the observation of little things that happen in life. "

" He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. "

" The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. "

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" I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. "

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" It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. "

" Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle. "

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" Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. "

Albert Einstein

" I had great relationship with the Hispanic - we had a lot of Hispanics in the school actually from different countries, Venezuela, from Brazil, and they all played soccer, and I was on the soccer team, and I developed great relationships with them. "

" Even in times of great sadness, there are always moments where we crack up. "

" I know this may come as a shock to most of you, but I've decided to quit acting. I will not be auditioning for anything anymore, and if I get offered something like a role in a movie or a commercial or something, I will graciously turn it down. It's been great, but its just not for me anymore. "

" Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. "

" It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal. "

" Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men. "

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" I see my upbringing as a great success story. By disciplining me, my parents inculcated self-discipline. And by restricting my choices as a child, they gave me so many choices in my life as an adult. Because of what they did then, I get to do the work I love now. "

" Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything. "

" The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic. "

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