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I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.: Frances Willard (1839 - 1898)
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990
The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.: Shakti Gawain
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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.: Miriam Beard
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You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.: A. J. Kitt
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.: Nelson Mandela (1918 - ), 'A Long Walk to Freedom'
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.: Bobby Knight (1940 - )
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The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.: Henry S. Haskins
It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation.: Roberto Benigni (1952 - ), in Newsweek
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.: Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.': Ronnie Shakes
One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.: Rabbi Harold Kushner
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Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 11-06-03
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My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes without having a single original thought.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from "won't power" to "will power.": Peter McWilliams, Life 101
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)