Drench yourself in words unspoken / Live your life with arms wide open / Today is where your book begins / The rest is still unwritten — Natasha Bedingfield

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Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human. -- Tony Robbins

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Those who do not weep, do not see. ― Victor Hugo

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Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. ― Ronald Reagan

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I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass. — Maya Angelou

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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else. -- Judy Garland

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Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds. ― Mirza Tahir Ahmad

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I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it. -- Kenny G

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Hey, guess what? Turns out the free market? Not so free. Wall Street was hit hard Monday when Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, Merrill Lynch was sold to Bank of America, and insurance giant AIG neared a collapse of its own. Basically, if your commercials air during golf tournaments, you're done. — Amy Poehler

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