How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time. — Fred Brooks

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The realest people don’t have a lot of friends. — Tupac Shakur

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It's important, therefore, to know who the real enemy is, and to know the function, the very serious function of racism, which is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and so you spend 20 years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn't shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Someone says you have no art so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms and so you dredge that up. None of that is necessary. There will always be one more thing.

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It’s important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to the friendship that we are not. — Mignon McLaughlin

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All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them. — Walt Disney

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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

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It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that had flickered out.

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Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,Whispering 'it will be happier'...― Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends. ― Epicurus

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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.

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