In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning. ~Amby Burfoot
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My dad loved comedians, especially George Jessel, and he loved Henny Youngman and Buddy Hackett. ~Al Franken
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. ~Elizabeth Hardwick
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My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else! ~Kelly Wearstler
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To the seeing eye life is mostly sparrows. ~Will Cuppy
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I love zoo sanctuaries. ~Nancy Travis
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Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details. ~Daniel Dennett
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility. ~Imelda Marcos
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Silence is also speech. ~Proverb
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It is good for us to get into the Word, but it is much better for the Word to get into us. ~David J. Stewart
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The wagon rests in winter, the sleigh in summer, the horse never. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Habits are at first cobwebs, then cables. ~Spanish Proverb
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Middle age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?" ~Sydney J. Harris
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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A half doctor near is better than a whole one far away. ~German Proverb
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb. ~Irwin Redlener
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Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. ~Proverb
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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, but an eternal now, does always last. ~Abraham Cowley
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Coffee and tobacco are complete repose. ~Turkish Proverb
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The people of Chicago are a proud people; and for good reason. ~Jane Byrne
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Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it. ~Horace Bushnell
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