“If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.”
Clint Eastwood, quoted in The Denver Post
“I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”
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“I have never seen a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. It slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.”
“The worst thing that can happen to you can be the best thing for you, if you don’t let it get the best of you.”
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
Sir Edmund Hillary, quoted in the Contra Costa, Calif., Times
“If at first you don’t succeed, remove all evidence you have ever tried.”
Ricky Gervais, quoted in the London Times
“Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.”
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, quoted in the Lowell, Mass., Sun
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