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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
Complain to one who can help you.: Yugoslav Proverb
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In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn't quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action.: Bono (1960 - ), Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002
Inspiration may be a form of superconsciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self- consciousness.: Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)
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Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.: Jack Nicklaus (1940 - ), 'My Story'
I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it.: Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Jimmy Stewart in "Harvey", 1950
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It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.: D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.: Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745), Miscellanies, 1711
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Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.: Fran Lebowitz (1950 - )
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.: Sue Patton Thoele
Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.: Meister Eckhart
If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
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An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
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The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.: Tom Morris
There is a lot more to life than just struggling to make money.: Ann Richards
I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963
Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.: Kent Nerburn