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- If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
- Napoleon Hill
- All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
- Sheldon Kopp
- Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
- Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus (1493 - 1541)
- It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
- Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744), Essay on Criticism
- Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers (1928 - )
- God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
- Farrah Fawcett (1947 - )
- There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set.
- Harriet Van Horne
- The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
- Agatha Christie (1890 - 1976)
- Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
- Harriet Van Horne
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