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To take the measure of oneself by reference to one’s colleagues leads to envy or complacency rather than constructive self-examination.

Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.

Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.
CATHERINE OF SIENA

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For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, ‘The voice follows… the voice follows everything about you… who you are.
BETTY BUCKLEY

Teacher Voice Years
I did the 23 hour nose-route to the top of El Capitan in 6 hours and 18 minutes! I can make this work.
BILLY BISHOP

Hours Minutes Noses
At Texas, I was a football player playing baseball. And the way I play I think I still am.
ADAM DUNN

Baseball Country Football Play Player Playing Same
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
CORMAC MCCARTHY

Deep Empty God Goodness Heart Life Reality Stand Start Truth Young
The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
ALEXANDER POPE

Chance Run Stop Talk Time Wisdom Yourself
A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

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Take a chance to fail, and you might see all your dreams come true.
LILY DIAZ

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During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite.
ELIZABETH OF THE TRINITY

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Duty is not collective; it is personal.
CALVIN COOLIDGE

Collective Duty Personal
I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, ‘This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.’ But then, that’s the goal: world domination through style.
TOM FORD

Design Domination Ego Goal Home Job Myself Perfection Way World
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
ROALD DAHL

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They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

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We’re really fleshing out the whole world of the show [Difficult People]. It’s more of an ensemble now, whereas last season we were very focused on establishing the Billy/Julie friendship.
BILLY EICHNER

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I used to bodyguard for some celebrities and other people, and when I wasn’t doing that, I used to work at a disco as a doorman or a bouncer.
MR. T

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There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious through their splendor, number and excess.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

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