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Sunday, 1 August 2010
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"The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife."
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All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one...characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers. - (
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Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for; He who has God Finds he lacks nothing; - (
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It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before. - (
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Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity -- instead of anger and resentment - (
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If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either. - (
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Accomplishment is easiest when we work the hardest, and it is hardest when we work the easiest. - (
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The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. - (
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Two-thirds of promotion is motion. - (
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To look is one thing, to see what you look at is another, to understand what you see is a third, to learn from what you understand is still something else, but to act on what you learn is all that really matters! How do I act? - (
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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does. - (
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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up. - (
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None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen. - (
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Do it now. Then it's done. - (
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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often. - (
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Activity and sadness are incompatible. - (
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Backbone beats wishbone every time. - (
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Be both the gardener and the rose. - (
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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap. - (
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Act, don't react! - (
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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. - (
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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late. - (
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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet. - (
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Don't look back, just keep on walking. - (
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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. - (
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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. - (
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It doesn't do any good to sit up and take notice if you keep on sitting. - (
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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so. - (
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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up. - (
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No rules for success will work if you don't. - (
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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will. - (
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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet. - (
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Action is character. - (
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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind. - (
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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward. - (
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The best way to get something done is to begin. - (
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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started. - (
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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer - (
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The only way to start is to start. - (
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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden. - (
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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind. - (
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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall. - (
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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it. - (
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They are as much for Mars, as for Mercury; as well qualified for war, as for business. - (
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It is a wise person that adapts themselves to all contingencies; it's the fool who always struggles like a swimmer against the current. - (
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Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. - (
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Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others. - (
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The stars are constantly shining, but often we do not see them until the dark hours. - (
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The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up. - (
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There will be no crown bearers in heaven who are not cross bearers on earth. - (
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There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it. - (
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Nothing bad ever happens without equal or growth - (
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No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in a storm. - (
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The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them - (
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? - (
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Your dips an falls do not confound me, half as much as your heights astound me. - (
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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own. - (
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We need tough days to drive us to our knees. - (
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We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case. - (
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Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out. - (
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Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it. - (
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If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill and don't know it. - (
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He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light. - (
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Breakdowns can create breakthroughs. Things fall apart so things can fall together. - (
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If your cup seems too bitter, if your burden seems to heavy, be sure that it is the wounded hand that is holding the cup, and that it is me who carried the cross that is carrying the burden. - (
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If your knees are knocking, kneel on them. - (
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If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance. - (
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In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed. - (
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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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I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up. - (
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Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them - (
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero. - (
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However far your travels take you, you will never find the girl who smiles out at you from the travel brochure. - (
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Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. - (
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A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice - (
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A word to the wise is infuriating. - (
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Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand. - (
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Never play leapfrog with a unicorn. - (
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Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others. - (
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Anybody who ask for advice nowadays just hasn't been listening. - (
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It is a toss up whether it is worse to be old and bent or young and broke. - (
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Age and Aging
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An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it. - (
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If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars. - (
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Age and Aging
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In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod --always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults --rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life. - (
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Age and Aging
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Age withers only the outside. - (
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Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others. - (
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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. - (
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Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about it. - (
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One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax. - (
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Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair. - (
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We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. - (
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When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable. - (
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You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow. - (
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When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong. - (
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It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care. - (
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Many a woman drives a man to drink water. - (
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The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta. - (
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Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder! - (
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I drink to make other people interesting. - (
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Where ambition ends happiness begins. - (
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On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment -- half- time. - (
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America
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There are no second acts in American lives. - (
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France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter -- it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart. - (
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America is a willingness of the heart. - (
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America, where people do not inquire of a stranger, What is he? But What can he do? - (
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American is a very difficult language mixed with English. - (
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Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge of it as representatives for all mankind. They believe in the future as if it were a religion; they believe that there is nothing they cannot accomplish, that solutions wait somewhere for all problems, like brides. - (
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The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have. - (
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We are each of us angels with only one wing, to fly we need only embrace each other. - (
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Its easy to be an angel when you are in heaven. - (
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The broad general rule is that a man is about as big as the things that make him angry. - (
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Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over. - (
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When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself, if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes. - (
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Anger
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The size of a man is measured by the size of the thing that makes him angry. - (
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The best answer to answer to anger is silence. - (
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Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. - (
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No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things. - (
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Anxiety is the rust of life, destroying its brightness and weakening its power. A childlike and abiding trust in Providence is its best preventive and remedy. - (
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Anger is one letter short of danger, Greatest remedy for anger is delay - (
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Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. - (
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The better I know men the more I admire dogs. - (
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If it wasn't for dogs, some people would never go for a walk. - (
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A fence should be horse high, hog tight and bull strong. - (
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A camel is a horse designed by a committee. - (
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Bad weather always looks worse through a window. - (
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Regardless of weather, the moon shines the same; it is the drifting clouds that make it seem different on different nights. - (
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If you can't appreciate what you have got then get what you appreciate. - (
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The greatest need of every human being is the need for appreciation. - (
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We are so often caught up in our destination that we forget to appreciate the journey, especially the goodness of the people we meet on the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don't overlook it. - (
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude. - (
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Everybody has the right to be left alone but nobody has the right to demand approval. - (
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An archaeologist is someone whose career lies in ruins. - (
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When two quarrel, both are in the wrong. - (
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There is no point in arguing about matters of taste. - (
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People who know the least always argue the most. - (
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If you argue with a woman and win, you lose. - (
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An argument is like a country road, you never know where it is going to lead. - (
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A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about. - (
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A sure way of getting the last word in an argument is to say you right. - (
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Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art. - (
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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. - (
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Many bad artists will tell you that art is life. There's a subtle difference however. You can turn your back on art - (
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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture. - (
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Art the end result of perception, wisdom, intelligence, discipline, hard work, passion, luck, accident, and coincidence. - (
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The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it! - (
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Be careful what you ask for because you just might get it. - (
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If you don't want to deal with the devil, don't go in his shop. Keep on the Lord's side of the fence. - (
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How to trap an atheist: Serve him a fine meal, then ask him if he believes there is a cook. - (
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An atheist is a person who has no visible means of support - (
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An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain all that he can't see. - (
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The atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence - (
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Two-minute attitude drill: To everyone: You can trust me. I'm committed to excellence. I care about you as a person. EVERY DAY: Do good. Do your best. Treat others as you would be treated. FOR TODAY: Nothing negative will escape my lips. - (
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Whether a glass is half full or half empty depends on the attitude of the person looking at it. - (
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The most vital thing in a man's life is his mental attitude. - (
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Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose. - (
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One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness. Life is not at fault. - (
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Nothing else is needed to make you depressed, than to fancy you are so. - (
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Irritation in the heart of a believer is always an invitation to the devil to stand by. - (
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If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them. - (
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Your attitude determines your altitude. - (
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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. - (
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. - (
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Growl all day and you'll feel dog tired all night. - (
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If your batting average is high enough, the Big League will find you. - (
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Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top. - (
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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top. - (
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A baby sitter is someone who watches your TV set While your kids cry themselves to sleep. - (
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A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate Who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away. - (
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In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department. - (
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Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come - (
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The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think. - (
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Every beginning is a consequence. Every beginning ends something. - (
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More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin. - (
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Wise men are instructed in reason men of less understanding by experience; The most unknowing learn by necessity. Wise men do in the beginning what fools in the end. - (
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Remember tonight.. for it is the beginning of always. - (
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Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes - (
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What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir. - (
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide. - (
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Beware of assumptions! Whatever you assume to be possible -- or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you. - (
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I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down. - (
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If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others. - (
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If you do not believe in yourself... chances are nobody else will. - (
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If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't It's almost a cinch you won t. Life's battles don't always go To the stronger or faster man; But soon or late the man who wins is the one who thinks he can. - (
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The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe. - (
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The very act of believing creates strength of its own. - (
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There never was a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people, if he's any good. - (
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Everything I do you blame on me. - (
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If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. - (
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It's sad that, in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers - (
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Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace? - (
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The human body is a peculiar device, pat it on the back and the head swells. - (
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower. - (
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Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot read. - (
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Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience. - (
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In any situation, ask yourself: What strengths do I possess that can contribute towards accomplishing something in this situation? Then follow through. - (
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I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs. - (
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Boredom is a disease of the mind and psyche, an insidious disease. It not only takes the joy out of life, but the creativity as well. No one of God's children should ever be bored with life. - (
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A bore is a man who has nothing to say and says it anyway. - (
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Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges. - (
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He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. - (
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Don't be one to remember everything lent, but forget everything borrowed. - (
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Always borrow from a pessimist, he never expects anything back. - (
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Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. - (
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The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence. - (
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Among the worries of today's business executives is the large number of unemployed still on the payroll. - (
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The first thing the secretary types is the boss. - (
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A hard thing about business is minding your own - (
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A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you. - (
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Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without. - (
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Business is like a wheelbarrow--it stands still until someone pushes it. - (
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Leisure for people of business, and business for people of leisure would cure many problems. - (
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People will go right on preferring to do business with friends. - (
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If you are pre-occupied with life and death then you aren't ready for heaven. - (
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If you're too busy to help those around you succeed, you're too busy. - (
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I don't care how much you know until I know how much you care. - (
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Coming to Rome, much labor and little profit! The King whom you seek here, unless you bring Him with you will not find Him. - (
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She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude. - (
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Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage - (
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A mousetrap always provides free cheese. - (
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Never celebrate until you are really out of the woods. They might be behind the last tree. - (
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A cemetery is the only place where people don't try to keep up with the Joneses. - (
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All work and no play makes one the wealthiest man in the cemetery. - (
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There are only two things you HAVE TO do in life. You HAVE TO die. You HAVE TO live until you die. You make up all the rest. - (
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If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time. - (
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If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one. - (
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Every chance taken is another chance to win. - (
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A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous. - (
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It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat? - (
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Change is not reform, any more than noise is music. - (
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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control. - (
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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut. - (
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Constant change is here to stay. - (
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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both. - (
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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered. - (
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It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better. - (
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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living. - (
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People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all. - (
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Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs - (
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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change. - (
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The only people who like change are wet babies. - (
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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away. - (
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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through. - (
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Use a gyroscope to demonstrate how, over time, we become fixed in our ways, personalities, and, as a mature person, psychologically resistant to change. With EFFORT, however, we can make changes. We are not today exactly what we were yesterday. We are almost imperceptibly different. We do change with time and we can control to an extent the direction of the changes. - (
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When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change -- then you will change. - (
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You can't expect to meet the challenges of today with yesterday's tools and expect to be in business tomorrow. - (
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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. - (
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Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. - (
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You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character. - (
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Before you advise anyone Be yourself! reassess his character. - (
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The test of any man's character is how he takes praise. - (
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The higher character a person supports the more they should regard their smallest actions. - (
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It is better for the development of character and contentment to do certain things badly for yourself than to have them done better for you by someone else. - (
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Nothing marks the character of a young man more than failure. - (
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Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him. - (
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Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted. - (
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Testimony is like an arrow shot from a long bow and the force of it depends on the strength of the arm from which it was shot. Argument is like a bullet fired from a gun and has equal force even when issued from a child. - (
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If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on. - (
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Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one. - (
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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy. - (
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Character is like the foundation of a house -- it is below the surface. - (
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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage. - (
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Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity. - (
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Character is a victory, not a gift. - (
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Charm is the ability to make someone think that both of you are quite wonderful. - (
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Cheerfulness greases the axles of the world. - (
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Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and ;groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickedness - (
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There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things. - (
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With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism. - (
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Little girl's definition of conscience: Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does. - (
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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go - (
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Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards. - (
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Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too. - (
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What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children. - (
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The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself. - (
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There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy. - (
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Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. - (
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Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too. - (
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You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. - (
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You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance. - (
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There is an election going on all the time... the Lord votes for you and Satan votes against you, and you must cast the deciding vote. - (
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You must give up the way it is... to have it the way you want it - (
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No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing. - (
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One ABC of Christianity: Always Be Cheerful [1 Thessalonians 5:16] - (
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Faith makes a Christian. Life proves a Christian. Trial confirms a Christian. Death crowns a Christian. - (
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Don't feel superior just because you go to church, it doesn't make you a Christian. - (
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Christianity, above all, has given a clear-cut answer to the demands of the human soul. - (
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A group touring Westminster Abbey in London heard the guide list the famous people buried within its walls. During a momentary silence a little old lady's voice blurted out loud and clear, Anybody been saved here lately? - (
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Though the church has many critics, it has no rivals. - (
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Sign in lot: Church parking only. We will not forgive those who trespass against us. - (
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Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. - (
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No person is either as happy or as unhappy as they imagine. Things are never as good or as bad as they seem. - (
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The one who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it - (
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Each class of society has its own requirements; but it may be said that every class teaches the one immediately below it; and if the highest class be ignorant, uneducated, loving display, luxuriousness, and idle, the same spirit will prevail in humbler life. - (
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Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life. - (
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College-bred is a four-year loaf, using dad's dough, Coming out half-baked, with a lot of crust. - (
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The men -- the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country. - (
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all. - (
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To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal. - (
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Reality forms around a commitment. - (
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Some men dream of worthy accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them. - (
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A winner makes commitment. A loser makes promises. - (
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A committee is a group of the unwilling chosen form the unfit, to do the unnecessary. - (
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A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. - (
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A committee is a body that keeps minutes and wastes hours. - (
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A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee. - (
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dump a good idea on a meeting table. It will belong to the meeting. - (
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The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense. - (
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In the war for individual rights, common sense becomes the first and major casualty. - (
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Good sense is the master of human life. - (
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Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it. - (
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Common sense is seeing things as they are, and doing things as they should be done. - (
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Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person. - (
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Ninety-nine percent of all problems in communications start with misunderstandings which develop as a result of differing viewpoints and conditioning. - (
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Use non-verbal communication to SOFTEN the hard-line position of others: S = Smile O = Open Posture F = Forward Lean T = Touch E = Eye Contact N = Nod. - (
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What is the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef? Answer: feedback. Don't forget that feedback is one of the essential elements of good communication. - (
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The careful application of terror is also a form of communication. - (
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In the last analysis, what we ARE communicates far more eloquently than anything we SAY. - (
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Get in touch with the way the other person feels. Feelings are 55% body language, 38% tone and 7% words. - (
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You know how you hate to be interrupted, so why are you always doing it to me. - (
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I am a Marxist... of the Groucho tendency. - (
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Our fear that Communism might some day take over most of the world blinds us to the fact that anti-communism already has. - (
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He who feels no compassion will become insane. - (
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Don't complain that you are not getting what you want, Just be glad you are not getting what you deserve! - (
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Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. - (
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If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. - (
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Computers in the future will weigh no more than 1.5 tons. [Quoted in Popular Mechanics 1950] - (
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Conceit is a queer disease -- it makes everyone Sick except the person who has it. - (
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Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which storms burst forth when one makes a puncture in it. - (
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If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us. - (
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Before water generates steam, it must register 212 of heat; 200 will not do it. The water must boil to generate enough steam to move an engine. Lukewarm water will not run anything. Lukewarmness will not generate life's work. - (
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A wise man admits his weaknesses. I'd admit mine if I had any. - (
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He who denies all, confesses all. - (
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Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence comes from having done it well. - (
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God knows best; he hasn't arranged your anatomy so as to make it easy for you to pat yourself on the back. - (
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The values of the Walt Disney company: The four C s: Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, Consistency, and the greatest of these is Confidence. - (
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True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man. - (
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Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice. - (
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Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. - (
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The trouble with self-made men is that they tend to worship their creator. - (
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up. - (
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There are two enemies to every bill proposed in Congress, the fools who favor it and the lunatics who oppose it. - (
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A bad conscience has a very good memory. - (
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God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't. - (
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A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can. - (
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One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout. - (
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His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. - (
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A conservative sees a man drowning 50 feet from shore, throws him a 25 foot long rope, and tells him to swim to it. A liberal throws him a rope 50 feet long, then drops his end and goes off to perform another good deed. - (
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Some consultants are like the bottom half of a double boiler: They get all heated up but don't know what's cooking. - (
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Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. - (
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When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment. - (
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Everybody has a hot button. Who is pushing yours? While you probably cannot control that person, you CAN control the way you react to them. - (
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It is far more important that one's life should be perceived than it should be transformed; for no sooner has it been perceived, than it transforms itself of its own accord. - (
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Never give anyone total access to your pockets, your pockets, your purse or your mind. - (
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We cannot direct the wind but we can adjust the sails. - (
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Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue. - (
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The moral duty to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency. At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world. - (
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We are not put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. - (
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If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative. - (
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The majority of people have not the courage to correct others because they don't have the courage to bear correction themselves. - (
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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. - (
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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage. - (
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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path. - (
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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge? - (
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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat. - (
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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage. - (
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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites. - (
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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now! - (
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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it. - (
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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance. - (
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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right. - (
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Courage is knowing what not to fear. - (
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One who lacks courage to start has already finished - (
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it. - (
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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood. - (
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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory. - (
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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away. - (
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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom. - (
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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade. - (
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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. - (
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Courtesy should be a continuous action, not something to be turned on and off like a faucet. - (
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The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men. - (
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Courtship -- A man pursuing a woman until she catches him. - (
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A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on. - (
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The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way. - (
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The creative process involves getting input, making a recommendation, getting critical review, getting more input, improving the recommendation, getting more critical review... again and again and again. - (
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One measure of how creative you are is how you respond to changes in your circumstances and environment. How flexible are you? Consider how water adapts to its environment: evaporation, condensation, snowflake, melting, flowing, goes around rocks, fills containers, etc. - (
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I have asked a lot of my emotions --one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now. - (
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Buying on trust is the way to pay double. - (
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In God we trust; all others must pay cash. - (
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Crises bring out the best in the best of us, and the worst in the worst of us. - (
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Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize. - (
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He who throws dirt always loses ground. - (
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For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. - (
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There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him. - (
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It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism. - (
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Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. - (
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The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route. - (
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Don't mind criticism. If it is untrue, disregard it; if unfair, keep from irritation; if it is ignorant, smile; if it is justified it is not criticism, learn from it. - (
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Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes. - (
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Brilliant people talk about ideas. Average people talk about things. Small people talk about other people. - (
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Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own. - (
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The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom. - (
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You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives - (
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People do more from custom than from reason. - (
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To my customer: I may not have the answer, but I'll find it. I may not have the time, but I'll make it. I may not be the biggest, but I'll be the most committed to your success. - (
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When handling a customers complaint, remember: If you can't fix it, don't drop it. - (
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Your customers will get better when you do. - (
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If we don't take care of the customer... somebody else will. - (
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It is not enough to give the customer excellent service. You must subtly make him aware of the great service he is getting. - (
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The customer is our reason for being here. - (
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The customer is the final inspector. - (
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CYNIC: One who not only reads bitter lessons from the past, but who is prematurely disappointed with the future. - (
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A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. - (
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There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted. - (
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We fear not death. That gloomy night, that pale-faced moon, and the affrighted stars that hurried through the sky, can witness that we fear not death. - (
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When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us. - (
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To fear death is to misunderstand life. - (
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Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death as though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is to live our life so that we will be prepared for death when it comes. - (
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Those to whom we say farewell, are welcomed by others. - (
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It was once said that if you took all of the people who fell asleep in church and laid them end to end they would be more comfortable. - (
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God's retirement plan is out of this world - (
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When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did -- in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car. - (
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A good man dies when a boy goes wrong. - (
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If one wants to get out and stay out of debt he should act his wage. - (
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Running into debt isn't so bad. It's running into creditors that hurts. - (
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If someone takes your time, it is the only debt that can't be repaid. - (
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Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing - (
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Buying on the installment plan makes the months shorter and the years longer. - (
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If you've made up your mind you can do something, you're absolutely right. If you've made up your mind you can't do something, you're absolutely right. - (
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Good deeds from good intentions flow; but good intentions only; build for us a place below. - (
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O Lord, how many read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred. - (
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The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention - (
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Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. - (
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A delay is better than disaster. - (
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Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it. - (
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A woman never knows what she really wants until she finds out what her husband cannot afford. - (
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Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness. - (
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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. - (
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No person can arise above his real desire. Desires are of value only when they drive us to action. Will and work must accompany desire. Then high resolve is born. Desire is the design that will spurs us into achievement. - (
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The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one's desire. - (
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The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse. - (
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The more clear you are on what you want, the more power you will have. - (
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We accomplish things by directing our desires, not by ignoring them. - (
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In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o clock in the morning, day after day. - (
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We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits and reap our character. We sow our character, and we reap our destiny. - (
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Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination. - (
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Once while St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden, he was asked, What would you do it you were suddenly to learn that you were to die at sunset today? He replied, I would finish hoeing my garden. - (
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Dieters -- People that are thick and tired of it - (
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Nothing arouses more hope than the first four hours of a diet. - (
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A Christian is like a tea bag -- he's not worth much until he's been through some hot water. - (
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Difficulties are stepping stones to success. - (
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If things are natural, they're easy. If they're unnatural they're difficult. I have never met a man who found it difficult to marry, but I have never found a man who found it easy to divorce either. - (
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Triumphs without difficulties are empty. Indeed; it is difficulties that make the triumph. It is no feat to travel the smooth road. - (
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When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat. - (
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Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing. - (
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A distinguished diplomat could hold his tongue in ten languages. - (
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The man who appeals to the best side of his fellows is rarely disappointed. - (
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If you think you have trouble supporting a wife, try not supporting her. - (
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A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, And whom did you consult before coming to me? Only the village druggist, was the answer. And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you? asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman. Oh, replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, he told me to come and see you. - (
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The difference between an itch and an allergy is about one hundred bucks. - (
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The doctor knows what his trained eyes see -- and he says it's the last of the ninth for me. So one more thing while the clouds loom dark and then I must leave this noisy park. - (
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Feed your faith and doubt will starve to death - (
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When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in doubt mumble. - (
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When in doubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask. - (
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You can make the dream come true if you wake up and work. - (
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When you dream alone, with your eyes shut, asleep, that dream is an illusion. But when we dream together, sharing the same dream, awake and with our eyes wide open, then that dream becomes reality! - (
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Your dreams will come true... if you can see it... if you believe in it... then you can achieve it. - (
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A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. - (
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Oversleeping will never make one's dreams come true. - (
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Dream the impossible dream, Fight the unbeatable foe, Strive with your last once of courage To reach the unreachable star. - (
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Dreams are free. - (
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No dreamer is ever to small; no dream is ever to big. - (
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Like dreams, small creeks grow into mighty rivers. - (
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If all of our wishes were gratified, many of our dreams would be destroyed. - (
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His life was a sort of dream, as are most lives with the mainspring left out. - (
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We act the way we dress. Neglected and untidy clothes reflect a neglected and untidy mind. - (
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If a woman driver ahead of you signals a left turn, be careful, she may turn left. - (
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An economist is someone who knows more about money than the people who have it. - (
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If you took all the economists in the world and laid them end-to-end, they couldn't reach a conclusion - (
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An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. - (
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A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it. - (
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The world is run by C students. - (
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Education has opened many, many doors. However, there are still innumerable doors shut tight -- unopened yet. These are the doors of the future. Perhaps one of my children will open one of these doors -- I shall help give him the key. - (
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Education is not received. It is achieved. - (
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Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it. - (
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If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates? - (
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Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life. - (
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The creative person is usually rebellious. He or she is the survivor of a trauma called education. - (
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Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them. - (
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Public school is a place of detention for children placed in the care of teachers who are afraid of the principal, principals who are afraid of the school board, school boards who are afraid of the parents, parents who are afraid of the children, and children who are afraid of nobody. - (
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The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it. - (
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Remember that the faith that moves mountains always carries a pick. - (
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It's the last inch that counts. - (
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If you torture data long enough, it will tell you anything you want! - (
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If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. - (
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Have you ever watched a stonecutter at work? He will hammer away at a rock for perhaps a 100 times without a crack showing in it. Then, on the 101st blow, it will split in two. It is not that blow alone which accomplished the result, but the 100 others that went before as well. - (
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About the only thing that comes without effort is old age.. - (
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Two parts of empathy: Skill (tip of iceberg) and Attitude (mass of the iceberg). - (
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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success. - (
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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause. - (
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The end is never as satisfying as the journey. To have achieved everything but to have done so without integrity and excitement is to have achieved nothing. - (
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Something that irritates you and won't let you go. That's the anguish of it. Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance. - (
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Speak well of your enemies... you made them. - (
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One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they keep us on our toes, a third reason is that we should make them our friends. - (
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A person is his own worst enemy. - (
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If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum. - (
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A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice. - (
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I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things. - (
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If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well. - (
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Americans don't spend billions for entertainment. They spend it in search of entertainment. - (
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Enthusiasm is a telescope that yanks the misty, distant future into the radiant, tangible present. - (
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Enthusiasm is contagious. You can start an epidemic. - (
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Be ENTHUSIASTIC as a leader. You can't light a fire with a wet match! - (
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Enthusiasm is very good lubrication for the mind. - (
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Enthusiasm is the Spirit of God working with you. - (
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Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by. - (
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Why were the saints, saints? Because they were cheerful when it was difficult to be cheerful, patient when it was difficult to be patient; and because they pushed on when they wanted to stand still, and kept silent when they wanted to talk, and were agreeable when they wanted to be disagreeable. That was all. It was quite simple and always will be. - (
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The person who's not fired with enthusiasm, usually gets fired otherwise. A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on. - (
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Enthusiasm: A little thing that makes a BIG difference. - (
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Enthusiasm will be as contagious as ever. - (
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Enthusiasm makes ordinary people extraordinary. - (
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Enthusiasm is: A quiet spiritual strength: An inner glow: Faith in action: Greatest asset in the world: Beats money power influence: Tramples over prejudice. - (
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In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion -- or a new form of Christianity -- based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability. - (
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Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - (
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Evil spelled backward is live. - (
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After listening to a lecture on evolution by a science professor, a student wrote a poem and titled it The Amazing Professor. The poem read: Once I was a tadpole when I began to begin. Then I was a frog with my tail tucked in. Next I was a monkey on a coconut tree. Now I am a doctor with a Ph.D. - (
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Evolution has developed man to such a high degree that he builds zoos to keep his ancestors in cages. - (
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Two million years from now the scientists can start a row by claming that the creatures of that period descended from us. - (
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Imagine being in a room with two TV sets. One is a large screen TV with surround sound. The other is a miniature 1 screen TV. What would you tend to focus on and become absorbed in? Some people make their problems the size of the large screen TV and their personal goals the size of the miniature one. It is important to mentally minimize the problems and the cant's and maximize the goals and the cans. - (
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A good example is the best sermon. - (
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Children are natural mimics -- they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. - (
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Don't wait to be a great man -- be a great boy. - (
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Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow. - (
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Benevolence It is the glory of the true religion that it inculcates and inspires a spirit of benevolence. It is a religion of charity, which none other ever was. Christ went about doing good; he set the example to his disciples, and they abounded in it - (
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Others will follow your footsteps easier than they will your advice. - (
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Excellence is best described as doing the right things right -- selecting the most important things to be done and then accomplishing them 100% correctly. - (
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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself. - (
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Let each day be your masterpiece. - (
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Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence. - (
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Nothing in excess. - (
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Exercise: you don't have time not to. - (
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Winner expects to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophesy. - (
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Rarely do the followers exceed the expectations of the leaders. - (
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Employees tend to live up to their managers expectations of them. If a managers expectations are high, productivity is likely to be excellent. - (
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When your OUTGO exceeds your INCOME then your UPKEEP will be your DOWNFALL. - (
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Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else. - (
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A careful inventory of all your past experiences may disclose the startling fact that everything has happened for the best. - (
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Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. - (
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Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. - (
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One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time. - (
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Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience. - (
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Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it. - (
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The less you know about a subject, the longer it takes you to explain it. - (
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Never explain yourself. Your friend don't need it and your enemies won't believe it. - (
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The most important thing you wear is the expression on your face. - (
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There are no traffic jams in the second mile. - (
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The Extra Mile will have no traffic jams. - (
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. - (
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Clowns wear a face that's painted intentionally on them so they appear to be happy or sad. What kind of mask are you wearing today? - (
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I often wish that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. - (
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It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that no one has heard before. - (
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Never forget the facts are important but it's the opinion of the facts that causes comment. - (
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. - (
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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed. - (
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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do. - (
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Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory. - (
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Failure is not the worst thing in the world -- the very worst is not to try. - (
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From time to time, life as a leader can look hopeless. To help you, consider a man who lived through this: Failed in business at age 31. Defeated for the legislature at 32. Again failed in business at 34. Sweetheart died at 35. Had a nervous breakdown at 36. Defeated in election at 38. Defeated for Congress at 43. Defeated for Congress at 46. Defeated for Congress at 48. Defeated for Senate at 55. Defeated for Vice President at 56. Defeated for Senate at 58. Elected President at age 60. This man was Abraham Lincoln. - (
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Even a tombstone says good things about a fellow who's down. - (
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An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. - (
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If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, don't try to strike back at the other person. Don't let the poison spread throughout your system. - (
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People don't fail, they give up - (
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