Relax

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Anonymous

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame others.

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Anonymous

A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

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Anonymous

Adolescence is a period of rapid changes. Between the ages of 12 and 17, for example, a parent ages as much as 20 years.

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Anonymous

Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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Anonymous

Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.

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Anonymous

I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.

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Anonymous

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom to catch them.

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Anonymous

If there is anything better than to be loved, it is loving.

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Anonymous

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

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Anonymous

If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticise it.

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Anonymous

Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.

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Anonymous

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

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Anonymous

Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

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Anonymous

Mother-in-law: A woman who destroys her son-in-law's peace of mind by giving him a piece of hers.

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Anonymous

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity. The greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

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Anonymous

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates…

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Anonymous

Schizophrenia beats being alone.

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Anonymous

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

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Anonymous

The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence but you still have to mow it.

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Anonymous

The two hardest things to handle in life are failure and success.

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Anonymous

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.

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Anonymous

There are three kinds of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened.

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Anonymous

Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.

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Anonymous

You can judge a person's worth by the company he keeps.

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Antonin Artaud (1896-1948)

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. (Writing about Vincent Van Gogh)

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Douglas Adams

Don't panic! (preface to The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

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Douglas Adams

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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Douglas Adams

The answer to the great question of...Life, the universe and Everything...is...forty-two.

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Douglas Adams

There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this already happened...

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George Matthew Allen

Have a variety of interests...These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.

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Greg Anderson

...the Law of Stress-Hardiness...states that stress is not only to be expected but preferred...we can and should develop an positive, workable approach to stress management...Think of it. The perfect no-stress environment is the grave...When we change our perception we gain control. The stress becomes a challenge, not a threat. When we commit to action, to actually doing something rather than feeling trapped by events, the stress in our life becomes manageable.

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Joseph Addison

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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Miss Alabama (1994 Miss USA Contest)

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why? Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever.

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Muhammad Ali (1942- )

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

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Scott Adams

I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.

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Scott Adams

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

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Woody Allen

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

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Woody Allen

Why are our days numbered and not, say lettered?

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Abigail Van Buren

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

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Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922)

When one door closes, another door opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which opened for us.

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ANONYMOUS

Be a BIG thinker and rise above the little things.

You are what you think

So think big, believe big, act big, dream big, work big, give big, forgive big, laugh big, love big, live big.

Carry this list and you'll start feeling big.

When you feel big, you'll start believing big and when you believe big you'll become a BIG achiever

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Anonymous

THINK BIG

You are what you THINK

So rise about the little things and be a big thinker

Think big, act big, dream big, work big, give big, receive big, forgive big,  laugh big, love big, live big, feel big, believe big.

You'll see it when you BELIEVE it and

When you BELIEVE it you will ACHIEVE it

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Bertolt Brecht

He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.

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Byrd Bagget

Good leaders are like baseball umpires they go practically unnoticed when doing their jobs right.

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Charles Barkley

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.

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David Brinkley

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

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Ed Bluestone

I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat people.

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Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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Erma Bombeck

When my kids become wild and unruly, I use a nice, safe playpen. When they're finished, I climb out.

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Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

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Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Knowledge is power.

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George Burns

Too bad all the people that know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.

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H. Jackson Browne

Do you always want to be right, or do you want to be happy?

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Hector Berlioz

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all it's pupils.

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J. Bronowski

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

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James G. Bilkey

You never will be the person you can be if pressure, tension and discipline are taken out of your life.

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Margaret Fairless Barber

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

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Mary Catherine Bateson

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

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Matthew Broderick (1962- )

Life moves pretty fast. If you don t stop and look around once in a while, you might miss it. (Ferris Bueller s Day Off)

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Mike Binder

Never moon a werewolf.

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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

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Red Buttons

Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.

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Reginald Blyth

Love, and do as you please. Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

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Richard Bach

Here's the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

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Samuel Butler

You can do very little with faith alone, but you can do nothing without it.

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Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

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Vance Bourjaily

The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to change your name and start a new life in a different city.

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William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

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Agatha Christie

'But it is always interesting when one doesn't see,' she added. 'If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way around.'

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Al Capone

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

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Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend.

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Alberta Lee Cox

It's not enough to be good if you have the ability to be better.

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Alistair Cooke

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it.

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Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)

When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.

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Anton Chekhov

Doctors are the same as lawyers the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

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Bill Cosby (1937- )

I don t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

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Carlos Castaneda

You must push yourself beyond your limits, all the time.

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Chinese Proverb

Don't listen to what they say. Go see.

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Chinese Proverb

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

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Chinese Proverb

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

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Chinese proverb

If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum.

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Chinese Proverb

Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.

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Confucius (551-479 BC)

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.

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Confucius (551-479 BC)

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

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Edward Estlin Cummings (1894-1962)

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

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G.K. Chesterton

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem.

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J. Carl Cook

Minor surgery is surgery someone else is having.

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Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-1995)

If we didn t die, we wouldn t appreciate life as we do.

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Joseph Campbell

I think the person who takes a job in order to live--that is to say, (just) for the money--has turned himself into a slave.

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Joseph Campbell

The theme of the [Holy] Grail [in mythology] is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which the Grail is the answer...It's the world of people living inauthentic lives--doing what they are supposed to do.

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Mariah Carey

Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean, I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.

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Rich Cook

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.

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Sheryl Crow

If it makes you happy, it can t be that bad.

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Stephen R. Covey

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

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Thomas Carruthers

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

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Tom Clancy

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.

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William Jefferson Clinton (1946- )

The real differences around the world today are not between Jews and Arabs; Protestants and Catholics; Muslims, Croats, and Serbs. The real differences are between those who embrace peace and those who would destroy it. Between those who look to the future and those who cling to the past. Between those who open their arms and those who are determined to clench their fists.

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Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject

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Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

History is written by the victors.

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Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

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Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

If you re going through hell, keep going.

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Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the road may be.

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Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

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Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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Ellen DeGeneres

You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.

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Leonardo da Vinci

As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

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Lord Thomas Dewar

Minds are like parachutes they work best when open.

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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W.H. Davies

What is this life if, so full of care, we have not time to stand and stare?

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Walt Disney (1901-1966)

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

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Walt Disney (1901-1966)

If you can dream it, you can do it.

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Abba Eban (1915- )

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

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Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough.

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Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

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Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.

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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969)

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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Epictetus

Remember that you are an actor in a play and the Playwright chooses the manner of it... your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well the choice of the cast is Another's.

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J.W. Eagen

Never judge a book by it's movie.

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Marie von Ebner Eschenbach

In youth we learn in age we understand.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

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T. S. Eliot

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

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Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

We don t know a millionth of one percent about anything.

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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

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Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

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Buckminster Fuller

I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel the nibble, and then you have to hook the fish.

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Carrie Fisher

There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'

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Cotton Fitzsimmons, coach - Phoenix Suns

You're not going to make me have a bad day. If there's oxygen on earth and I'm breathing, it's going to be a good day.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

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Henry Ford

Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

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Laurence Fishbourne

Don't think you can, know you can. (the Matrix)

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Malcolm Stevenson Forbes (1919-1990)

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

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Millard Fuller

It's what you do with your life that counts.

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Milton Friedman (1912- )

If you make a mistake and refuse to admit it, you hurt yourself twice: once, when you make the mistake a second time, when you refuse to learn from your mistake.

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R. I. Fitzhenry

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity.

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Robert Frost (1874-1963)

The world is filled with willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

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Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Two paths diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by. And that has made all the difference.

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Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi (1893 - )

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

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Alec Guiness

Who s more foolish? The fool, or the one who follows him? (Star Wars)

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Andre Gide (1869-1951)

It is better to be hated for what you are then to be loved for something you are not.

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Baltasar Gracian

A wise man gets more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

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Ben Gaye III

No amount of travel on the wrong road will bring you to the right destination.

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Bhagavad-Gita

It is better to do your own duty, however imperfectly, than to assume the duties of another person, however successfully. Prefer to die doing your own duties: the duties of another will bring you into great spiritual danger.

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Bhagavad-Gita

Your motive in working should be to set others, by your example, on the path of duty.

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Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

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Etienne de Grellet

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

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German proverb

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost. When health is lost, something is lost. When character is lost, all is lost.

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German proverb

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

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Greek proverb

Nothing in excess.

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James Gleick

Recognise that neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost. It is not a thing you ever had. It is what you live in. You can drift or you can swim, and it will carry you along either way.

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Janet Greeson

It's not what you're eating, it's what's eating you.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1831)

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1831)

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

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Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan

Most of us visualise on a daily basis, but we often do it unconsciously and in a negative fashion. It is called worrying. What happens to our bodies when we worry? We tense up, disrupt our normal breathing, and psycho-physically prepare ourselves for failure. Instead, learn to use positive visualisation to prepare yourself for success. As you do you will transform the energy that supports your worrying into fuel for making your dreams come true.

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

Be the change you want to see in this world.

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

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Neil Gaiman

Everyone knows everything. We just pretend to ourselves we don't...Not knowing everything is all that makes it okay sometimes. (Brief Lives)

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Neil Gaiman

You don't have to stay anywhere forever. (The Season of Mists)

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Roy R. Gilson

Keep your faith in all beautiful things in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.

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Conrad Hyers

What is particularly intriguing, in fact, is that whereas many peoples tend to locate this experience (of the sacred) in certain unusual, if not 'supernatural' moments and circumstances... the Oriental focus is upon mystery in the most obvious, ordinary, mundane--the most natural--situations of life.

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Doug Hall, Jump Start Your Brain

Fun is fundamental. There is no way around it. You absolutely must have fun. Without fun, there is no enthusiasm. Without enthusiasm, there is no energy. Without energy, there are only shades of gray.

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G. H. Hardy

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.

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George Herbert

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

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George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

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Hermann Hesse (1877-1962)

If you hate a person, you hate something in them that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

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Hindustani Proverb

Men trip not on mountains, they stumble on stones.

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Jack Handy

Before criticising someone, walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do criticise them, you will be a mile away and have their shoes. (Saturday Night Live)

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Joel Hawes

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it but your arrow will fly higher than if aimed at an object on level with yourself.

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Kin Hubbard

Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

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Paul Harvey

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

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Sydney J. Harris

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

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Thich Nhat Hanh

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

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Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

I am too much a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything.

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Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

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Werner Karl Heisenberg (1901-1976)

Not only is the universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

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Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, aka Juvenal (c.60-130)

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

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Irish Proverb

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.

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Italian Proverb

It is not enough to aim, you must hit.

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ancient Japanese proverb

When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there.

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Andrew Jackson

Take time to deliberate but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.

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Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

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Franklin P. Jones

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have for instance.

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Jesse Louis Jackson (1941- )

Never look down on anybody unless you re helping him up.

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Mick Jagger (1943- ) (The Rolling Stones)

You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

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Naomi Judd

If you want a helping hand, first look to the end of your own arm.

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Samuel Johnson

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when we are not well.

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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

1. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you have it.
4. Never buy what you do not want because it is cheap; it will never be dear to you.
5. Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.
6. Never repent of having eaten too little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
8. Don't let the evils which have never happened cost you pain.
9. Always take things by their smooth handle.
10. When angry, count to ten before you speak; if very angry, count to one hundred.

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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits that favour that theory.

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William James

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

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Hellen Adams Keller (1880-1968)

Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing.

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Hellen Adams Keller (1880-1968)

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

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Henry Kissinger

If you don't know where you are going