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- If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
- The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
- I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.
- William Lloyd Garrison (1805 - 1879)
- Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will go along, too.
- Lawrence Bixby
- The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention.
- Kevin Kelly, in 'Wired'
- To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?
- Katharine Graham
- People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
- Cullen Hightower
- Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.
- Rebecca Johnson, in 'Vogue'
- Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
- Larry McMurtry (1936 - ), 'Lonesome Dove'
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