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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.: Shlomo Bernartzi, TED Talk: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow, November 2011
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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
He talked with more claret than clarity.: Susan Ertz
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?: Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
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It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.: Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
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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.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), 'Prejudices: Fourth Series,' 1924
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The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.: Joan Klempner
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), (attributed)
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891
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Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off.: Ellen DeGeneres
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.: Jose Ortega y Gasset (1883 - 1955)
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.: 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.: Olga Ilyin
You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves.: Adam Cooper and Bill Collage, Accepted, 2006
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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.: 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.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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