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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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, every road will get you nowhere.

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Herman Kauz ,Tai Chi Handbook

A teacher can do no more than point the way and, sometimes by example, inspire. The work is up to the student

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Jean Kerr

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)

We choose to go to the moon not because it is easy, but because it is hard.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)

When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters: one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

If a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn t fit to live.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

If a man is called a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and Earth will pause to say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. - Memphis, Tennessee, 3 April 1968 (The evening prior to his assassination.)

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Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

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Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968)

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

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Robert Francis Kennedy (1925-1968)

There is a Chinese curse which says may he live in interesting times. Like it or not, we live in interesting times.

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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy; but, my friend, these I reckon will give you a good life.

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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Most of us are just about as happy as we make up our minds to be.

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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

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Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time. But you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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Bryan Lindsay

Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself.

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David Letterman

Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today?
1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War.
2) Advising the President.
3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin.

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Denis Leary

Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you get cancer , then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a new dog, you get remarried, you owe ten million dollars in medical bills but you work hard for thirty-five years and you pay it back and then -- one day -- you have a massive stroke, your whole right side is paralysed, you have to limp along the streets and speak out of the left side of your mouth and drool but you go into rehabilitation and regain the power to walk and the power to talk and then -- one day -- you step off a curb at Sixty-seventh Street, and BANG you get hit by a city bus and then you die. Maybe.

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Doug Larson

Some of the world s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

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John Lennon (1940-1980)

Life is what happens while you are making other plans.

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Thomas Leonard

IF YOU ASSUME that you can't change, you probably won't even try. If you assume that you don't have anything special to offer others, you probably won't even bother to look for anything that you have, much less develop it. If you assume that life is a struggle, then you're probably going to find a lot of struggling to prove out your assumptions.

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Thomas Leonard

Motivation is an external, temporary high that PUSHES you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which PULLS you forward.

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Vince Lombardi (1913-1970)

It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether you get up again.

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Baron de Montesquieu

Author: a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

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Hugh Mulligan

What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.

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John Stuart Mill

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

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Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859)

The men who make history have not time to write it.

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Mark 8:36,37

For what profit a man, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?

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Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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Miyamoto Musashi

From one thing, know ten thousand things. (Book of Five Rings)

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Miyamoto Musashi

You should not have a favorite weapon. To become over-familiar with one weapon is as much a fault as not knowing it sufficiently well. You should not copy others, but use weapons which you can handle properly. It is bad for commanders and troopers to have likes and dislikes (Book of Five Rings)

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Monty Python

Always look on the bright side of life.

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Peter McWilliams

From a medical point of view, negative thinking suppresses the immune system, raises the blood pressure, and creates a general level of stress and fatigue in the body. In short, infections, cardiovascular irregularities, the degeneration of muscles, and the random growth of unwanted cells get more opportunity.

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Shirley Maclaine

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.

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Thomas Mann

Act like a man of thought - Think like a man of action.

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Alex Noble

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

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Anais Nin

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

What does not destroy me makes me stronger.

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Marton Niemoller (1892-1984)

In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn t speak up because I wasn t a communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn t speak up because I wasn t a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn t speak up because I wasn t a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn t speak up because I wasn t a Catholic.
Then they came for me - and by that time there was nobody left to speak up. (German Lutheran pastor speaking about the Holocaust)

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Native American proverb

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in a manner so that when you die the world cries and you rejoice.

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No Fear

A champion is one who gets up, even when he can't.

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No Fear

Don't have a hero. Look up to no one. Because if someone is leading the way, the best you'll be is second.

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No Fear

Don't let your fears, stand in the way of your dreams.

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No Fear

FEAR - Just another four letter word

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No Fear

Fears divide us, dreams unite us.

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No Fear

Limits were made to be broken.

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No Fear

Speak softly and carry a big stick

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No Fear

What if your fears and dreams existed in the same place? What if to get to heaven, you had to go through hell? What if to achieve everything you've ever wanted, you had to risk everything you've ever achieved? Would you still go there?

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Patricia Neal

A strong positive attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

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Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1995)

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

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Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.

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George Orwell (1903-1950)

One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

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Herbert Otto

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself / herself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his or her own life.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

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Ovid (43 B.C. to A.D. 18)

What is harder than rock, or softer than water? Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere.

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P.D. Ouspensky

It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.

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William Osler (1849-1919)

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

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Dr. Laurence J. Peter, 'The Peter Principle

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ...in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level

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Ed Parker

To desire something does not mean to accomplish it. To perspire for it makes accomplishment a reality. (The Zen of Kempo)

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Edward Phelps

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

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George Smith Patton (1885-1945)

Always do more than is required of you.

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George Smith Patton (1885-1945)

An active mind cannot exist in an inactive body.

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George Smith Patton (1885-1945)

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

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John Wesley Powell (1834-1902)

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

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Linus Carl Pauling (1901-1994)

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

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Norman Vincent Peale

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

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Norman Vincent Peale

Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

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Norman Vincent Peale

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

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Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

When I was a child, my mother said to me, If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope. Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

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Plato

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

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Plato

The part can never be well unless the whole is well.

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Robert M. Pirsig

The Truth knocks on the door and you say 'Go away, I'm looking for the Truth', and so it goes away. Puzzling. (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)

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Robert M. Pirsig

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)

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Ron Potter-Efron, MSW, and Pat Potter-Efron, MS

Every day you get many chances to become angry. For instance, a driver cuts in front of your car on the way to work. Someone else criticises you. Another person doesn't return your call. All these are anger invitations. You could accept every one, in which case you'll be angry all the time. Instead, you have to be careful. The key is to ignore the less important invitations. You have to separate what is merely annoying from what is really serious.

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Tom Peters

Formula for success: Underpromise and overdeliver.

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Dan Quayle (Former US Vice President)

I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix.

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Dan Quayle (Former US Vice President)

It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 B.C.- 8 B.C.)

Even as we speak, time flies. Seize the day (carpe diem), and believe as little as possible in tomorrow.

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Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

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Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

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Francois de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.

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Francois de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or great evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.

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Francois de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

Those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. (During the Great Depression)

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

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John Ruskin

In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong honour that try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

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Rodin

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

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Rumanian proverb

Men are born with two eyes and one tongue in order that they may see twice as much as they say.

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Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

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Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Everything is funny, as long as it is happening to somebody else.

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Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.

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Bernie S. Siegel, MD

It takes more distress and poison to kill someone who has peace of mind and loves life.

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Beverly Sills (1929- )

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

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Charles Monroe Schultz (1922- )

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

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Chief Seattle-1844

Continue to soil your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.

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D.T. Suzuki

The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's hum drum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.

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D.T. Suzuki

Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions Zen is wedded to poetry.

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Gail Sheehy

If we don t change, we don t grow. If we don t grow, we are not really living.

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George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Some men see things as they are and ask why? Others dream things that never were and ask why not?

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George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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Gerry Sikorski

Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.

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Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

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J. W. Schopf

For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pondscum.

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J.W. Sullivan

To be willing to suffer in order to create is one thing to realize that one's creation necessitates one's suffering, that suffering is one of the greatest of God's gifts, is almost to reach a mystical solution to the problem of evil.

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Jeanne Segal, Ph.D.

Unless you know what you want, you can't ask for it. (Raising your Emotional Intelligence )

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Jerry Seinfeld (1954- )

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world everyday always just exactly fits the newspaper.

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Josef Stalin (1879-1953)

One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.

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Logan Pearsall Smith

If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

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Lt. Col Claus Phillip von Stauffenberg (1907-1944)

Better I be a traitor to my country than a traitor to my conscience. (The man who who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler )

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Marsha Sinetar

Life's strict rule is this: You get more of what you focus on. Ignoring this, we abandon our healthiest, concentrative energies and court emotional upheaval.

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Mildred Stouven

A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.

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Nadine Stair

If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

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Phillip Stanhope

With enough knowledge and self-confidence, you can do anything. Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

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Richard Saunders aka Poor Richard

Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.

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Robert L. Stevenson

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour.

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Samurai saying

Expect nothing. Be prepared for anything.

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Scottish proverb

Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.

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Sei Shin Kan

You might as well stand and fight because if you run, you will only die tired.

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Seng-ts'an

The perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike: all will then be clear.

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Shakespeare

Look with thine ears.

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Shakespeare

The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.

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Shakespeare

The play's the thing.

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Shakespeare

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

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Shissai

A warrior must only take care that his spirit is never broken.

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Sidney Smith

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

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Socrates (c.469-399 BC)

The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

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St. Bernard

If you wish to see, listen. Hearing is a step toward vision.

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Sydney Smith

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.

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The Way of the Spear

First see to it that you, yourself, are all right, then think of defeating an opponent.

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Thomas Szasz

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

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Thomas Szasz

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time. Serenity, that nothing is.

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Thomas Szasz

If you talk to God, you are praying if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

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U.S Navy Seals Motto

The more you sweat in training, the less you will bleed in battle.

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William Saroyan

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

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Chogyam Trungpa

To be a warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.

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Harry S Truman (1884-1972)

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

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Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

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Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

There is only one time that is important - NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time we have any power over.

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Lieh Tzu

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

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Lily Tomlin

The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

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Mark Twain (1835-1910)

All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

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Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Do something everyday that you don't want to do this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

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Mark Twain (1835-1910)

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

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Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Work like you don t need the money. Dance like no one is watching. Love like you've never been hurt.

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Mother Teresa

Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.

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Sun Tzu

Appear where they cannot go, head for where they expect you least.

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Tibetan proverb

If the problem can be solved, there is no use worrying about it. If it can t be solved, worrying will do no good.

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Turkish proverb

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

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Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Not to borrow the strength of another, nor to rely on one's own strength to cut off past and future thoughts, and not to live within the everyday mind... then the Great Way is right before your eyes.

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Kenshin Uesugi

Go to the battlefield firmly confident of victory and you come home with no wounds whatsoever.

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Morehei Ueshiba (1883-1969)

Ultimately, you must forget about technique. The further you progress, the fewer teachings there are. The Great Path is really NO PATH.

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Voltaire (1694-1778)

No culture has a monopoly on beauty, just as no religion has a monopoly on truth.

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Voltaire (1694-1778)

Now, now my good man. This is no time for making enemies. (On his deathbed, after a priest asked that he renounce Satan.)

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Alan Watts

Although profoundly 'inconsequential,' the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

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Alan Watts

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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Bill Watterson

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. (in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes)

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Booker T. Washington

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

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Dennis Wholey

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.

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Harriet Woods

You can be a victor without having victims.

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John Wooden (1910- )

Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

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John Wooden (1910- )

Talent is God given be humble. Fame is man-given be grateful. Conceit is self-given be careful.

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Katherine Whitehorn

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.

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Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more.

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Ron Wild

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.

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Steven Wright

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

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Steven Wright

You can't have everything where would you put it?

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Walt Whitman

NOT I--NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.

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Winnie the Pooh

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.

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Lin Yutang

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

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Yiddish proverb

Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.

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Yoda, Star Wars

Do, or do not. There is no try.

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Yoda, Star Wars

Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering...

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Emiliano Zapata (c1879-1919)

It is better to die on your feet, than to live on your knees.

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Hubert van Zeller

Thinking about interior peace destroys interior peace. The patient who constantly feels his pulse is not getting any better.

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Robert Allen Zimmerman, aka Bob Dylan (1941- )

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night, and in between does what he wants to do.

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Zen Proverb

Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.