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| If your happiness depends on what somebody else says (or does), I guess you do have a problem.
 - Richard Bach |
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| What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
- Seneca (4 B.C.-A.D. 65) |
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| I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure -- try to please everybody.
- Herbert Bayard Swope (1882-1958) |
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| Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82) |
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| Live 20% outside the 'proper' zone; remember that the great wise men of the past held no respect for today's conventions, and neither will the great men of the future.
- Anonymous |
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| The truly great consider first, how they may gain the approbation of God; and secondly, that of their own conscience; having done this, they would then willingly conciliate the good opinion of their fellowmen.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
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| Do well and right and let the world sink.
- Author Unknown |
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| Do what you feel in your heart to be right for you will be criticized anyway. You will be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
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| Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
- Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471) |
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| Either control your own destiny, or someone else will!
- John F. Welch, Jr. |
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