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- What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working. That being the case, I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can. We should take pride in that.
- Victor Kiam
- The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.
- Arnold Bennett
- The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions.
- Unknown
- Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
- The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
- Franklin P. Jones
- Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level we cannot hope to achieve a high level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.
- A. Lou Vickery
- The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
- Marilyn Ferguson
- You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.
- Richard Bach, Illusions [1977]
- All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
- It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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