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Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem NOW when the chocolates is next to us.
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Shlomo Bernartzi, TED Talk: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow, November 2011
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
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John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
He talked with more claret than clarity.
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Susan Ertz
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
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Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
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Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), 'Prejudices: Fourth Series,' 1924
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.
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Joan Klempner
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed)
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off.
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Ellen DeGeneres
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
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Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
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Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
It had only been my repeated experience that when you said to life calmly and firmly... 'I trust you; do what you must,' life had an uncanny way of responding to your need.
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Olga Ilyin
You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.
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Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, Accepted, 2006
Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.
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Russell R. McIntyre
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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MM's Cynical Quotes LM's Motivational Quotes Classic Quotes
Cole's Quotables Rand Lindsly's Quotes Poor Man's College
alt.quotations Archives 20th Century Quotations Quotations by Women
The Devil's Dictionary Contributed Quotations

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