Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"If you're going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can't be erased."
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Jay-Z
Rapper, Businessman
"Leave a mark they can't erase, neither space nor time."
James Dean
Actor
"If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there."
Golda Meir
Politician
"Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short."
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark"
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"Zits are beauty marks."
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"The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless"
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"The most satisfying project you will ever undertake-and a mark of a complete human being-is to discover how to build a sense of happiness that no one can take away from you."
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"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive."
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"The mark of a great shiphandler is never getting into situations that require great shiphandling."
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"Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity."
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"You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others."
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"Any truth is only true up to a certain point. When one oversteps the mark, it becomes a non-truth."
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"The cat always leaves a mark on his friend."
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"Bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise."
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"Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical."
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"The road to wisdom is paved with excess. The mark of a true writer is their ability to mystify the familiar and familiarize the strange."
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"Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly."
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"Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction."
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"In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing."
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"Life can be much broader. You can embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it."
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"Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!"
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"There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment."
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"Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition."
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"Truthfulness is the real mark of integrity."
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