Normal

From Joe Ancis, commedian

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.

Don't get excited. We know you all too well.

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Ambition

From Mark Twain, author.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions, small people always do that. But the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Just before they ask for your credit card number.

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Writing

Anonymous Quote

"Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written."

Some aren't paid at all.

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Acceptance

From Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890), painter

I wish they would only take me as I am.

But they won't so, give it up.

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Man

From Albert Camus (1913 - 1930), author
and philosopher

Man is the only creature that refuses to be
what he is.

Which is why there are vegetarians.

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Talent

From Edgar Allen Poe (1809 - 1849), writer and poet

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

How did you become so talented?

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Strangeness

From John A. Wheeler (1911 - 2008), physicist

If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day.

Or you haven't looked the mirror, yet.

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Difficulty

From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), writer

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach our goal.

So, you should probably quit while you're ahead.

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Imagination

From Joseph Joubert (1754-1824), moralist

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Angst is the soul's left kidney.

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Glory

From Confucius, Chinese Social Philosopher (551 BC to 476 BC)

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

But you still might want to quit drinking so much.

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Understanding

From Confucius, Chinese Social Philosopher (551 BC to 476 BC)

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

I understand and I wish I could forget.

Can I have the blue pill, please?

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