March 2012
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You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
– Jack London
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If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with...
– Betty Reese
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For every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
– Clement Stone *I needed this today.
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Because women’s liberation is a movement of the powerless for the...
– Rosemary O’Grady
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A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.
– Grace Hopper
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Freedom lies in being bold.
– Robert Frost
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Famous misquotations of fictional persons →
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Literature
“Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well.” – Hamlet, by William Shakespeare [C]
Actual quote: “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.”
“Methinks the lady doth protest too much.” – Hamlet, by William Shakespeare [C]
Actual quote: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
“When I first saw you I fell in love and...
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High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.
– Charles Kettering
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What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet
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Comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a...
– Kahlil Gibran, Poet, Visual Artist
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Sweet Carolina
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