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“So much time is wasted on trying to be better than others.”
Source : "Hobbit forming" by Tom Roston, www.theguardian.com. November 18, 2001. 
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“The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested.”
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“The great thing about 'Friday Night Lights,' unlike so many other shows and movies, is that it doesn't take the obvious beats to pull your heartstrings or manipulate you.”
Source : "Scott Porter: Nobody wants to watch guys ride a mechanical bull". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 19, 2010.
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“The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the beginning of strife.”
Source : "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 166), 1948.
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“If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill.”
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“One of the best places to start to turn your life around is by doing whatever appears on your mental "I should" list.”
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“I wasted my substance, I know I did, on riotous living, so I did, but there's nothing on record to show I did more than my betters have done.”
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“In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated.”
Source : "Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution". Book by Michael J. Behe, 1996.
