"Don't let the best you have done so far be the standard for the rest of your life."
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"Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired."
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"Have pity on those who are fearful of taking up a pen, or a paintbrush, or an instrument, or a tool because they are afraid that someone has already done so better than they could."
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"Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith."
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"Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good."
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"What have future generations ever done for us?"
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"Each day is a new opportunity. Yesterday is over and done. Today is the first day of my future."
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"Everything you do, if not in a relaxed state will be done at a lesser level than you are proficient. Thus the tensed expert marksman will aim at a level less than his/her student."
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"The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion."
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"I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know."
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"Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions."
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"There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs."
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"The Olympics is about showing what you've done with your life, your dream as an athlete and sharing that with the World."
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"Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion."
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"Acting is not about competing. Acting is about cooperating. Acting is about collaboration. It's about your utility, your usefulness, your capacity to add to the work that has already been done and will be done. You're just part of a team. I never feel competitive about acting."
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"Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills."
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"Life is so horrible that one can only bear it by avoiding it. And that can be done by living in the world of art."
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"There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it."
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"I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps."
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"However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal."
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