"Do not tell people how to live their lives. Just tell them stories. And they will figure out how those stories apply to them."

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“Don't bail. The best of the gold’s at the bottom of barrels of crap.”

“Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.”

“When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.”

“A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.”

“Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.”

“And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.”

Resonant Thoughts

"I relate to everything. I'm not just jazz, Latin or classical. I really am a fusion of all of those; not today's fusion, but my fusion."

— Clare Fischer

Music1928–2012

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"I just don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. It's kind of one of those exaggerations."

— George W. Bush

Politics1824–1900

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"Seems so absurd to me that the laws, that are the expression of the public will, that hate and punish the murder, make one themselves, and, to dissuade citizens from the murder, order a public murder."

— Cesare Beccaria

Philosophy1738–1794

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"I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for …"

— Joseph Gurney Cannon

Politics1836–1926

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