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"I think the presidency is an institution over which you have temporary custody." »Ronald Reagan
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"Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking." »Tim McMahon
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"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous." »Margot Fonteyn
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"Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them." »Eugene Paul Wigner
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"Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby." »Unknown
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"If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst." »Thomas Hardy
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"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Necessity is the mother of taking chances." »Mark Twain
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"You simply *must* stop taking advice from other people." »Melissa Timberman
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"It is better to be making the news than taking it to be an actor rather than a critic." »Winston Churchill
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"The hardest part of any journey is taking that first step." »Unknown
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"You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another." »Oprah Winfrey
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"The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf." »Shakti Gawain
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"Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes." »Mickey Mouse
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"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior." »Francis Bacon
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"People who have no weaknesses are terrible there is no way of taking advantage of them." »Anatole France
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"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another." »Anatole France
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"By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted." »Aldous Huxley
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"I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end." »Ellen Glasgow
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"I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some." »Herbert Rappaport
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"At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me." »Barnaby C. Keeney
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"It's the Brady Act taking manpower and crime-fighting capability off the streets." »Dennis Martin
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"When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break." »Akhenaton
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"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road." »Dag Hammarskjld
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"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them." »Paul Valery
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"I don't like the sound of all those lists he's making - it's like taking too many notes at school you feel you've achieved something when you haven't." »Dodie Smith
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"Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them." »Clarence Birdseye
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"My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out in spite of me every now and then." »George Gordon Byron
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"We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought." »Alfred North Whitehead
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