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“So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'”

Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson

“I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.”

Thinking Life Should Said Jobs Accepting

Author:Benjamin Alire Saenz

“Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.”

Ifs Life Years Said Life Is Enjoy Hours Numbers Months Life Is Short

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.”

Life Said Wanted Success Son Taste Police Accounting

Author:Franklin P. Adams

“If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.”

Ifs Life Should Said Sports Happened Failure Should Have Adversity Good Things Complaining Bad Things Why Me

Author:Arthur Ashe

“Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.”

World Way Life Said Three Fate Imagine Heard One Day Letters Blessed Fortune Blow Shoulders Tales Posts Fairy Tunes Fairy Tale Three Times Good Fortune Crossings Beam Unfamiliar

Author:Fay Weldon

“Life is such a very troublesome matter, when all is said and done, that it's as well even to take its blessings quietly.”

Life Wells Said Matter Done Life Is Blessing Troublesome Said And Done

Book:Lady Audley's Secret

Source: Lady Audley's Secret

“I guess when all is said and done, if there is one last commentary on me, I would want it to be said that I participated in my life. I was a full participant.”

Ifs Want Life Said Done Lasts Participants Commentary Said And Done

Author:Julia Roberts

“If I can, I shall keep my death from saying anything that my life has not already said.”

Ifs Life Said I Can Death Consistency Life Death

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“Being hurt is a pesky part of being human. You are bound to meet people who will hurt you again and again. Instead of asking them why again and again, ask yourself why you let them again and again. As Mahatma Gandhi once said, "Nobody can hurt you without your permission."”

People Life Humans Said Asks Hurt Asking Bounds Again And Again Permission Being Human You Again Being Hurt

Author:Rita Zahara

“We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we could think in terms of a large molecule made up of carbon compounds that can replicate, or make copies of itself, and metabolize food and energy. So that's the thought: macrocolecule, metabolism, replication.”

Thinking Life Made Said Energy Term Definitions Come Up Missions Copies Mars Carbon Compounds Molecules Vikings Replicate Metabolism Replication Definition Of Life

Author:Cyril Ponnamperuma

“Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What a great illusion is this! Wise man is he who always chooses to live longer and he who blesses the obscurity!”

Men Life Long Said Wise Glory Illusion Bless Obscurity Short Life

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Woody Allen once said that 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.' This is certainly a very wise wish! Whoever grasped the triviality of anything besides the existence is a wise man indeed! There is no substitute for life!”

Men Want Life Said Wish Existence Wise Achieve Dying Immortality Substitutes Woody Triviality Very Wise

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The Singapore judicial system's shameful recourse to using torture - in the form of caning - to punish crimes that should be misdemeanors is indicative of a blatant disregard for international human rights standards, one of the defendants said that sentencing day was the darkest day of his life, but in reality every day that Singapore keeps caning on its books is a dark day for the country's international reputation.”

“It's not something that I can put on and take off anymore, like I said, I've had my years of confusion and wondering who I really (was) and why and how do I live my life and make sense of it all, but I'm not confused about that any longer. I think the world might be -- but I'm not.”

Thinking World Life Years Said I Can Might Wonder Confusion Make Sense Confused Living My Life I Live My Life

Author:Rachel Dolezal

“Noone knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart.. it comes from being alive.”

Thinking Knows Life Heart Said Alive Beats

Book:You Can Be Happy No Matter What

Source: You Can Be Happy No Matter What

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