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“My life is like one long obstacle course with me being the chief obstacle.” -Jack Paar
Jack Harold Paar was born on 1 May 1918 in Canton, Ohio, United States of America. He became a writer, a talk show host, and a comedian. He is known for being the host of the television talk show program, “The Tonight Show” (1957 - 1962). Jack Harold Paar passed on at 85 years of age on 27 January 2004 in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States of America.
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“We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.” -Clementine Paddleford
Clementine Paddleford was born on 27 September 1898 in Kansas, United States of America. She was a food writer. Clementine Paddleford passed on at 69 years of age on 13 November 1967.
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“Before I was a genius I was a drudge.” -Ignace Paderewski
Ignace Paderewski was born in 1860. Ignace Paderewski passed on in 1941.
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“Anything you can imagine probably is doable. You just have to imagine it and work on it.” -Larry Page (in 2012)
Larry Page is a co-founder of Google.
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“Don’t scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you.” -Douglas Pagels
Douglas Pagels was born in 1950.
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“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.” -Satchel Paige
“Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching.” -attributed to Satchel Paige
Leroy Robert ‘Satchel’ Paige was born in 1906. He became an American baseball player, and pitched in several leagues, including Major League Baseball. Leroy Robert ‘Satchel’ Paige passed on in 1982.
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“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are stacked against you.” -Arnold Palmer
“The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.” -Arnold Palmer
“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting it is.” -Arnold Palmer
Arnold Daniel Palmer was born in 1929. Arnold Daniel Palmer passed on in 2016.
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“Praise is not only gratifying - it is the source of fresh energy, which can be measured in the laboratory. Dr. Henry H. Goddard, in his years at the Vineland Training school in New Jersey, used the ‘Ergograph,’ an instrument devised to measure fatigue. When an assistant said to a tired child at the instrument, ‘You are doing fine, John,’ the boy’s energy - curve soared. Discouragement and faultfinding were found to have a measurable opposite effect.” -Gretta Palmer
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“She felt . . . well, not beautiful, but something better: knowing she didn’t have to be.” -Mary C. Pangborn
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“For every beauty, there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth, there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love, there is a heart somewhere to receive it.” -Ivan Panin
Ivan Panin was born in 1855. Ivan Panin passed on in 1942.
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“The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.” -Emmeline Pankhurst
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“I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true.” -Dorothy Parker
“People are more fun than anybody.” -Dorothy Parker
“There is entirely too much charm around and something must be done to stop it.” -Dorothy Parker: ‘These Much Too Charming People’ in “The New Yorker” (1928) magazine
“They sicken of the calm that know the storm.” -Dorothy Parker
“To keep something, you must care for it - to care for it you must understand what kind of care it requires.” -Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker was born as Dorothy Rothschild on 22 August 1893 in Long Beach, New Jersey, United States of America. She became a short-story writer, a poet, a screenwriter, a humorist, a critic, and a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Dorothy Parker passed on at 73 years of age on 7 June 1967 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“Reforms come from below. No man with four aces howls for a new deal.” -John F. Parker
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“No man is so great as mankind.” -Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker was born in 1810. Theodore Parker passed on in 1860.
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“The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.” -C. Northcote Parkinson: as quoted in “The Economist” (1987), volume 303
“Work expands so as to fill the time for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase: ‘It is the busiest man who has time to spare.’” -C. Northcote Parkinson
Cyril Northcote Parkinson, also known as C. Northcote Parkinson, was born in 1909. He was an English writer. Cyril Northcote Parkinson passed on in 1993.
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“A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.” -Ara Parseghian (born 1923)
Ara Parseghian was born in 1923. He was a head coach for the University of Notre Dame football team (1964 - 1974).
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“Man is born to live, not to prepare to live.” -Boris Pasternak
“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.” -Boris Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was born on 10 February 1890 in Moscow, Russia. He became a writer. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak passed on at 70 years of age on 30 May 1960 in Peredelkino, Russia.
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“In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.” -Louis Pasteur: lecture (1854)
Louis Pasteur was born on 27 December 1822 in Dole, Jura, France. He became a chemist and a microbiologist. He is known as the inventor of the pasteurization process. Louis Pasteur passed on at 72 years of age on 29 September 1895 in St. Cloud, France.
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“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” -Patanjali
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“As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.” -Arnold Patent
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“The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.” -Joe Paterno
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“It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.” -Alan Paton
“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.” -Alan Paton
“To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.” -Alan Paton
Alan Stewart Paton was born in 1903. He was a South African writer. Alan Stewart Paton passed on in 1988.
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“An executive is a man who decides; sometimes he decides right, but always he decides.” -John H. Patterson
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“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” -Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling was born on 28 February 1901. He was an American chemist, biochemist, writer, and educator. He is known as one of the founders of the fields of quantum chemistry and molecular biology. Linus Carl Pauling passed on in 1994.
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“Concentration is everything. On the day I’m performing, I don’t hear anything anyone says to me.” -Luicano Pavarotti
Luicano Pavarotti was born in 1935.
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“The only joy in the world is to begin.” -Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese was born in 1908. He was an Italian novelist, poet, and translator. Cesare Pavese passed on in 1950.
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“If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.” -Steve Pavlina
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“Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.” -Paxton
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“Find a need and fill it.” -Ruth Stafford Peale
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“That’s what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!” -Minnie Pearl
Minnie Pearl is a pseudonym of Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, who was born on 25 October 1912. Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon passed on in 1996.
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“True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything.” -Paul Pearsall
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“Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.” -Hesketh Pearson
Hasketh Pearson was born in 1887. Hasketh Pearson passed on in 1964.
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“By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening.” -M. Scott Peck
Morgan Scott Peck, also known as M. Scott Peck, was born on 22 May 1936 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He became a psychiatrist and a writer. He is known as the author of the books, “The Road Less Traveled” (1978) and “People of the Lie” (1983). Morgan Scott Peck passed on at 69 years of age on 25 September 2005 in Connecticut, United States of America. Website http://mscottpeck.com/.
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Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.
-George Peele
George Peele was born in about 1558. George Peele passed on in about 1597.
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“One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.” -Dennis A. Peer
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“I am a member of the rabble in good standing.” -Westbrook Pegler
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“There is a tendency among some Pagans to want to be back in, let us say, sixth-century Wales, instead of wanting a ‘transformed’ world. Going back to sixth-century Wales is a fantasy that is dear to me. It’s part of the archetypal dream. But that is all it is. Nobody really wants to go back into the past except a bunch of space cookies. It is not modern technology that is desensitizing. It is the misuse of it that is.” -Gwydion Pendderwen
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“The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.” -Alexander Penney
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“Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.” -J. C. Penney
“I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.” -J. C. Penney
“My definition of an executive’s job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.” -J. C. Penney
“No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.” -J. C. Penney
“The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.” -J. C. Penney
“The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.” -J. C. Penney
James Cash Penney, Junior, also known as J. C. Penney, was born on 16 September 1875 in Hamilton, Missouri, United States of America. He was an American businessman and entrepreneur who, in 1902, founded J. C. Penney. In 1898, he began working for a small chain of stores in the western United States called the Golden Rule stores. In 1902, owners Guy Johnson and Thomas Callahan, impressed by his work ethic and salesmanship, offered him one-third partnership in a new store he would open. Penney invested $2,000 and moved to Kemmerer, Wyoming, to open a store there. He participated in opening two more stores, and when Callahan and Johnson dissolved their partnership in 1907, he purchased full interest in all three stores. James Cash Penney, Junior passed on at 95 years of age on 12 February 1971 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.” -Samuel Pepys
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“If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.” -Frank Perdue
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“No man is free who depends on his government for his sustenance, job, home, or hope. No constitution, no court, no law can save liberty when it dies in the hearts and minds of men.” -John Perkins
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“My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.” -Stephanie Perkins
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“Someday may never come. So live each day better than the last. That way you’ll wake up with so much excitement and anticipation you’ll jump out of bed and shout, ‘I can’t wait!’” -Bob Perks
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“Eagles don’t flock, you have to find them one at a time.” -Ross Perot
“Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.” -Ross Perot
“Most new jobs won’t come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We’ve got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.” -Ross Perot
“Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they’re going to make mistakes.” -Ross Perot
“Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You’d be amazed how many companies don’t listen to their customers.” -Ross Perot
“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.” -Ross Perot
Henry Ross ‘Ross’ Perot was born on 27 June 1930 in Texarkana, Texas, United States of America. He was an American businessman, philanthropist, and independent candidate for the office of the President of the United States of America in 1992 and 1996. Henry Ross ‘Ross’ Perot passed on at 89 years of age on 9 July 2019 in Dallas, Texas, United States of America. Website https://www.rossperot.com/.
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“A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.” -John J. Pershing
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“Celebrate what you want to see more of.” -Tom Peters
“Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.” -Tom Peters
“Management by wandering around may be the most important thing managers can do to improve work quality and productivity.” -Tom Peters
“The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.” -Tom Peters
“Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.” -Tom Peters (1987)
“We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails . . . excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.” -Tom Peters
Thomas J. ‘Tom’ Peters was born in 1942. He is a writer and a speaker.
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“Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.” -Wilferd Peterson
“Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.” -Wilferd Peterson
“The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.” -Wilferd Peterson
“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground.” -Wilferd Peterson
Wilferd Arlan Peterson was born in 1900 in Whitehall, Michigan, United States of America. He was a writer for “This Week,” a Sunday magazine supplement in newspapers, a monthly columnist for “Science of Mind” magazine, and author of nine books, starting with, “The Art of Getting Along: Inspiration for Triumphant Daily Living” (1949). Wilferd Arlan Peterson passed on in 1995.
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“The experience may have been costly, but it was also priceless.” -Peter G. Peterson
Peter G. Peterson was born in 1926.
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“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.” -Francesco Petrarch: as quoted in Bergen Evans: “Dictionary of Quotations” (1968)
“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.” -Francesco Petrarca
Francesco Petrarca, also known as Francesco Petrarch, was born on 20 July 1304. He was a scholar and poet of Renaissance Italy. He is known for developing the concept of the ‘Dark Ages.’ Francesco Petrarca passed on at 69 years of age on 19 July 1374.
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“He has gone over to the majority.” -Petronius
“We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.” -Petronius (about C.E. 60)
Petronius Arbiter, also known simply as Petronius, was a courtier during the reign of Nero in ancient Rome. He is generally believed to be the author of the “Satyricon,” a satirical novel possibly written during the Neronian era.
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“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” -Austin Phelps
Austin Phelps was born on 7 January 1820 in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a Christian pastor and a college professor and president of Andover Theological Seminary. Austin Phelps passed on at 70 years of age on 13 October 1890 in Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America.
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“If happiness truly consists in physical ease and freedom of care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.” -William Lyon Phelps
“The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality.” -William Lyon Phelps
William Lyon ‘Billy’ Phelps was born on 2 January 1865 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America. He became a writer, a radio show host, a newspaper columnist, and a professor of English literature. William Lyon ‘Billy’ Phelps passed on at 78 years of age on 21 August 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.
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“Great wealth and content seldom live together.” -Bob Phillips
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“Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.” -Bum Phillips
Oail Andrew ‘Bum’ Phillips, Junior was born on 29 September 1923 in Orange, Texas, United States of America. He became a football coach at the high school, college, and professional levels. Oail Andrew ‘Bum’ Phillips, Junior passed on at 90 years of age on 18 October 2013 in Goliad, Texas, United States of America.
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“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” -Wendell Phillips
“What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.” -Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips was born on 29 November 1811 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a lawyer and an orator (public speaker). He opened a law practice in 1834 in Boston. Wendell Phillips passed on in 1884.
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“Funny thing, but we always think every other man’s job is easier than our own. And the better he does it, the easier it looks.” -Eden Phillpotts
Eden Phillpotts was born in 1862. He was a novelist, a playwright, and a poet who published more than 250 books. Eden Phillpotts passed on in 1960.
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“Life is what we make it and the world is what we make it. The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.” -Albert Pike
“To hear patiently, to weigh deliberately and dispassionately, and to decide impartially; these are the chief duties of a Judge.” -Albert Pike
Albert Pike was born on 29 December 1809. He was an American lawyer, soldier, journalist, and writer. He is the only Confederate military officer to be honored with an outdoor statue in Washington, District of Columbia (in Judiciary Square). Albert Pike passed on at 81 years of age on 2 April 1891.
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“Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.” -Peace Pilgrim
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“Thinking positive thoughts will always empower you! Do it enough and it will change your life!” -Timothy Pina
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“It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling.” -Robert M. Pirsig
“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.” -Robert M. Pirsig
“We’re in such a hurry most of the time that we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.” -Robert M. Pirsig
Robert Maynard Pirsig was born on 6 September 1928 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America. He is an American philosopher and writer.
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“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” -Camille Pissarro
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“He means well is useless unless he does well.” -Titus Maccius Plautus
“The day, water, Sun, Moon, night . . . I do not have to purchase these things with money.” -Titus Maccius Plautus
“Where there are friends, there is wealth.” -Titus Maccius Plautus
Titus Maccius Plautus was born in about 254 B.C.E. He was a Roman comic dramatist. He is known as the author of ‘Palliata Comoedia.’ Titus Maccius Plautus passed on in about 184 B.C.E.
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“. . . it’s not how other people treat you that makes you important and honorable. Rather, it’s how you treat others.” -Zelig Pliskin: “Building Your Self-image and the Self-image of Others,” Chapter 2
“A person with low self-esteem tends to overlook the positive things he has done, and instead focuses solely on his failures and mistakes. To help increase someone’s self-esteem and confidence, help him become aware of his strengths and resources. Even if someone has many faults and weaknesses, he certainly has shown some positive behavior from time to time. By pointing out how he has succeeded in a past endeavor, or how he was successful in learning at least one thing, or how he manifested strength and courage in a specific situation, you are giving him a powerful resource upon which he can build. You have the ability to raise someone’s entire self-image and encourage him to achieve important goals. This is a tremendous act of kindness.” -Zelig Pliskin: “Gateway to Happiness,” page 134
“Be aware of the positive attributes and behaviors of the people with whom you come into contact and help them build upon their strengths. Encouragement is a much more powerful tool for change and growth than blaming and condemning. You can bring about miracles in people’s lives if you believe in their potential.” -Rabbi Zelig Pliskin: “Gateway to Happiness,” page 388
“Be soft spoken: Always speak to others in a manner that makes it a pleasurable experience for them. Your tone of voice should be calm and pleasant. Do not speak in anger or raise your voice.” -Rabbi Zelig Pliskin: “Consulting the Wise”
“Encourage With Acknowledgment: If you try to teach someone and he understands a small amount, focus on the small amount he does understand and acknowledge this in order to motivate him further.” -Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
“Everyone in the world from the most successful to the least needs encouragement. Make it your career to give others encouragement.” -Rabbi Zelig Pliskin: “Gateway to Happiness,” page 388
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“Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations of words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.” -Plotinus
“Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.” -Plotinus
“Knowledge has three degrees - opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.” -Plotinus
Plotinus was born in about C.E. 205 in Lycopolis, Egypt. He was a philosopher of ancient Greece. He became a philosopher and was a co-founder along with Ammonius Saccas of Neoplatonism. He is known for his three principles: the One, the Intellect, and the Soul. Plotinus passed on at about 65 years of age in C.E. 270 near Minturnae, Campania, Italy.
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“To practice freedom is to tolerate mistakes, not in the sense of inviting or cultivating error, but as one of the prices to be paid in the endless search for improved ways and means toward meeting man’s rising expectations.” -Paul L. Poirot
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“We know more than we can tell.” -Michael Polanyi
Michael Polanyi was born in 1891. He was a Hungarian-born British scientist and philosopher. Michael Polanyi passed on in 1976.
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“Work is what you do so that some time you won’t have to do it anymore.” -Alfred Polgar
Alfred Polgar was born in 1873. He became an essayist. Alfred Polgar passed on in 1955.
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“Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.” -John G. Pollard
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“Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow men have a claim to our help; no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future generations.” -Karl Popper
Karl Raimund Popper was born on 28 July 1902 in Vienna, Austria. He was an Austrian-born British philosopher of science. Karl Raimund Popper passed on in 1994.
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“A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing.” -Antonio Porchia: “Voces” (1943), as translated from Spanish by W. S. Merwin
“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.” -Antonio Porchia
“They will say you are on the wrong road if it is your own.” -Antonio Porchia
Antonio Porchia was born on 13 November 1885 in Conflenti, Italy. He became a poet. He moved to Argentina in 1900. He is known as the author of a book of aphorisms titled, “Voces” (English: “Voices”) (1943). Antonio Porchia passed on at 82 years of age on 9 November 1968.
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“What men and women need is encouragement . . . Instead of always harping on a man’s faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.” -Eleanor H. Porter: “Pollyanna” (1912)
Eleanor H. Porter was born in 1868. Eleanor H. Porter passed on in 1920.
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“The technique of infamy is to invent two lies, then get people arguing heatedly over which one of them is true.” -Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was born on 30 October 1885. He married Dorothy Shakespear in 1914. He was an American expatriate writer, a poet, and a critic who lived in Asia. His best-known works include “Ripostes” (1912), “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” (1920), and his unfinished 120-section epic “The Cantos” (1917 - 1969). Ezra Weston Loomis Pound passed on at 87 years of age on 1 November 1972.
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“We have to stop constantly criticizing, which is the way of the malcontent, and instead get back to the can-do attitude that made America.” -Colin Powell
Colin Powell was born in 1937.
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“I’d rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel.” -Terry Pratchett
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” -Terry Pratchett
Terrence David John ‘Terry’ Pratchett was born on 28 April 1948 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England. He became a fantasy novelist. Terrence David John ‘Terry’ Pratchett passed on at 66 years of age on 12 March 2015 in Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, England.
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“If anyone wants to understand the course of man on Earth he must consider the fact of the long pause, three million years on the level of savagery, ten thousand years on the level of dependence on the fruits of hand labor, and a hundred or a hundred and fifty years of sudden sharp rise. One hundred or 150 years is the time included in what we call progress in man’s history.” -E. Parmalee Prentice
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“A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.” -George D. Prentice: “Prenticeana” (1860)
“It is vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.” -George D. Prentice
George Dennison Prentice was born on 18 December 1802 in Preston, Connecticut, United States of America. He was the editor of the “Louisville Journal” newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky. George Dennison Prentice passed on at 67 years of age on 22 January 1870 in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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“Like sands through the hourglass so are the days of our lives.” -attributed to Ed Prentiss: “Days of Our Lives” (1965) television show series
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“Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.” -Steven Pressfield
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“I think by being happy it actually affects the way that you look, too.” -Kelly Preston
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“The great doing of little things makes the great life.” -Eugenia Price
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“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” -J. B. Priestley
“To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own, so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness.” -J. B. Priestley
John Boynton Priestley, also known as J. B. Priestley, was born in 1894. He was married to Jacquetta Hawkes. He became an English novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist, social commentator, and broadcaster. His Yorkshire background is reflected in much of his fiction, notably in “The Good Companions,” which first brought him to wide public notice. Many of his plays are structured around a time slip, and he went on to develop a new theory of time, with different dimensions that link past, present and future. John Boynton Priestley passed on in 1984.
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“Good work is dignified. It develops your faculties and serves your community. It is a central human activity. Work in this view: makes you honest with yourself requires that you develop your faculties and skills empowers you to do what you are really good at and love to do connects you in a compassionate way with the outside world supports the philosophy of non-destructiveness and sustainability and integrates work with personal life and community.” -Roger Pritchard
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“As an inducement to hard work and economy nothing beats a big family.” -Herbert V. Prochnow
“Ignorance is a voluntary condition.” -Herbert V. Prochnow
Herbert Victor Prochnow, Senior was born on 19 May 1897 in Wilton, Wisconsin, United States of America. He became a banker, an event toastmaster, and a writer. Herbert Victor Prochnow, Senior passed on at 101 years of age on 29 September 1998 in Evanston, Illinois, United States of America.
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Have we not all, amid life’s petty strife,
Some pure ideal of a noble life
That once seemed possible? Did we not hear
The flutter of its wings, and feel it near,
And just within our reach? It was. And yet
We lost it in this daily jar and fret,
And now live idle in a vague regret;
But still our place is kept, and it will wait,
Ready for us to fill it, soon or late.
No star is ever lost we once have seen,
We always may be what we might have been.
-Adelaide Anne Procter: “A Legend of Provence”
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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” -Marcel Proust
“Like everybody who is not in love he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.” -Marcel Proust
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” -Marcel Proust
“We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.” -Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust was born on 10 July 1871. He was a French novelist. Marcel Proust passed on at 51 years of age on 22 November 1922.
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“You don’t have to be smart. You don’t have to be beautiful. All you have to do is be yourself.” -Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was born on 1 December 1940 in Peoria, Illinois, United States of America. He became a stand-up comedian and an actor. Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor passed on at 65 years of age on 10 December 2005 in Encino, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
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“Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.” -Ptahhotep: “Maxims of Ptahhotep” (3400 B.C.E.)
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“They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29 to 1. They can’t get away from us now!” -Lewis B. ‘Chesty’ Puller
Lewis B. ‘Chesty’ Puller was a soldier in the United States Marine Corps.
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“We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and brave and patient; and we’ve got to study and think, and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds.” -Philip Pullman: “His Dark Materials” (1995 - 2000), page 1300; type of work: trilogy
Philip Pullman was born on 19 October 1946. He is a writer.
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“Those who wait to take action until they find themselves in a desperate situation face more difficulties than they need to.” -Catherine Pulsifer
“Don’t feed your mind with negative thoughts. If you do, you will come to believe them.” -Catherine Pulsifer
Catherine Pulsifer was born in 1927.
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“Strong people are ones who can smile for others’ happiness.” -Veronica Purcell
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Dance like there’s nobody watching,
love like you’ll never be hurt.
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
and live like it’s Heaven on Earth.
-William W. Purkey
William W. Purkey was born in 1929. He is an American writer and a professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the developer of a communication model called “Invitational Education” and co-founder with Betty Siegel of the International Alliance for Invitational Education.
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“Fear and worry are just the misuse of the creative powers we originally got to dream.” -Jannie Putter
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“And now for something completely different.” -Monty Python
“I think ordinary people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary people in this country are sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am!” -Monty Python
“If life seems jolly rotten, there’s something you’ve forgotten! And that’s to laugh and smile and dance and sing . . .” -Monty Python
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“My life is like one long obstacle course with me being the chief obstacle.” -Jack Paar
Jack Harold Paar was born on 1 May 1918 in Canton, Ohio, United States of America. He became a writer, a talk show host, and a comedian. He is known for being the host of the television talk show program, “The Tonight Show” (1957 - 1962). Jack Harold Paar passed on at 85 years of age on 27 January 2004 in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States of America.
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“We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.” -Clementine Paddleford
Clementine Paddleford was born on 27 September 1898 in Kansas, United States of America. She was a food writer. Clementine Paddleford passed on at 69 years of age on 13 November 1967.
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“Before I was a genius I was a drudge.” -Ignace Paderewski
Ignace Paderewski was born in 1860. Ignace Paderewski passed on in 1941.
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“Anything you can imagine probably is doable. You just have to imagine it and work on it.” -Larry Page (in 2012)
Larry Page is a co-founder of Google.
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“Don’t scrutinize people with a microscope; view them from a comfortable distance. And allow some room for compassion in the space the lies between you.” -Douglas Pagels
Douglas Pagels was born in 1950.
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“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.” -Satchel Paige
“Work like you don’t need the money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one is watching.” -attributed to Satchel Paige
Leroy Robert ‘Satchel’ Paige was born in 1906. He became an American baseball player, and pitched in several leagues, including Major League Baseball. Leroy Robert ‘Satchel’ Paige passed on in 1982.
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“Always make a total effort, even when the odds are stacked against you.” -Arnold Palmer
“The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.” -Arnold Palmer
“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting it is.” -Arnold Palmer
Arnold Daniel Palmer was born in 1929. Arnold Daniel Palmer passed on in 2016.
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“Praise is not only gratifying - it is the source of fresh energy, which can be measured in the laboratory. Dr. Henry H. Goddard, in his years at the Vineland Training school in New Jersey, used the ‘Ergograph,’ an instrument devised to measure fatigue. When an assistant said to a tired child at the instrument, ‘You are doing fine, John,’ the boy’s energy - curve soared. Discouragement and faultfinding were found to have a measurable opposite effect.” -Gretta Palmer
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“She felt . . . well, not beautiful, but something better: knowing she didn’t have to be.” -Mary C. Pangborn
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“For every beauty, there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth, there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love, there is a heart somewhere to receive it.” -Ivan Panin
Ivan Panin was born in 1855. Ivan Panin passed on in 1942.
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“The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.” -Emmeline Pankhurst
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“I don’t care what is written about me so long as it isn’t true.” -Dorothy Parker
“People are more fun than anybody.” -Dorothy Parker
“There is entirely too much charm around and something must be done to stop it.” -Dorothy Parker: ‘These Much Too Charming People’ in “The New Yorker” (1928) magazine
“They sicken of the calm that know the storm.” -Dorothy Parker
“To keep something, you must care for it - to care for it you must understand what kind of care it requires.” -Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker was born as Dorothy Rothschild on 22 August 1893 in Long Beach, New Jersey, United States of America. She became a short-story writer, a poet, a screenwriter, a humorist, a critic, and a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Dorothy Parker passed on at 73 years of age on 7 June 1967 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“Reforms come from below. No man with four aces howls for a new deal.” -John F. Parker
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“No man is so great as mankind.” -Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker was born in 1810. Theodore Parker passed on in 1860.
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“The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.” -C. Northcote Parkinson: as quoted in “The Economist” (1987), volume 303
“Work expands so as to fill the time for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase: ‘It is the busiest man who has time to spare.’” -C. Northcote Parkinson
Cyril Northcote Parkinson, also known as C. Northcote Parkinson, was born in 1909. He was an English writer. Cyril Northcote Parkinson passed on in 1993.
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“A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.” -Ara Parseghian (born 1923)
Ara Parseghian was born in 1923. He was a head coach for the University of Notre Dame football team (1964 - 1974).
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“Man is born to live, not to prepare to live.” -Boris Pasternak
“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.” -Boris Pasternak
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was born on 10 February 1890 in Moscow, Russia. He became a writer. Boris Leonidovich Pasternak passed on at 70 years of age on 30 May 1960 in Peredelkino, Russia.
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“In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.” -Louis Pasteur: lecture (1854)
Louis Pasteur was born on 27 December 1822 in Dole, Jura, France. He became a chemist and a microbiologist. He is known as the inventor of the pasteurization process. Louis Pasteur passed on at 72 years of age on 29 September 1895 in St. Cloud, France.
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“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” -Patanjali
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“As you express joy, you draw it out of those you meet, creating joyful people and joyful events. The greater the joy you express, the more joy you experience.” -Arnold Patent
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“The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.” -Joe Paterno
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“It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.” -Alan Paton
“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.” -Alan Paton
“To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one’s responsibility as a free man.” -Alan Paton
Alan Stewart Paton was born in 1903. He was a South African writer. Alan Stewart Paton passed on in 1988.
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“An executive is a man who decides; sometimes he decides right, but always he decides.” -John H. Patterson
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“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” -Linus Pauling
Linus Carl Pauling was born on 28 February 1901. He was an American chemist, biochemist, writer, and educator. He is known as one of the founders of the fields of quantum chemistry and molecular biology. Linus Carl Pauling passed on in 1994.
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“Concentration is everything. On the day I’m performing, I don’t hear anything anyone says to me.” -Luicano Pavarotti
Luicano Pavarotti was born in 1935.
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“The only joy in the world is to begin.” -Cesare Pavese
Cesare Pavese was born in 1908. He was an Italian novelist, poet, and translator. Cesare Pavese passed on in 1950.
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“If you want to achieve some really big and interesting goals, you have to learn to fall in love with hard work.” -Steve Pavlina
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“Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.” -Paxton
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“Find a need and fill it.” -Ruth Stafford Peale
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“That’s what life is all about: remembering someone and smiling!” -Minnie Pearl
Minnie Pearl is a pseudonym of Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, who was born on 25 October 1912. Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon passed on in 1996.
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“True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything.” -Paul Pearsall
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“Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.” -Hesketh Pearson
Hasketh Pearson was born in 1887. Hasketh Pearson passed on in 1964.
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“By far the most important form of attention we can give our loved ones is listening.” -M. Scott Peck
Morgan Scott Peck, also known as M. Scott Peck, was born on 22 May 1936 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He became a psychiatrist and a writer. He is known as the author of the books, “The Road Less Traveled” (1978) and “People of the Lie” (1983). Morgan Scott Peck passed on at 69 years of age on 25 September 2005 in Connecticut, United States of America. Website http://mscottpeck.com/.
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Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green.
-George Peele
George Peele was born in about 1558. George Peele passed on in about 1597.
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“One measure of leadership is the caliber of people who choose to follow you.” -Dennis A. Peer
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“I am a member of the rabble in good standing.” -Westbrook Pegler
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“There is a tendency among some Pagans to want to be back in, let us say, sixth-century Wales, instead of wanting a ‘transformed’ world. Going back to sixth-century Wales is a fantasy that is dear to me. It’s part of the archetypal dream. But that is all it is. Nobody really wants to go back into the past except a bunch of space cookies. It is not modern technology that is desensitizing. It is the misuse of it that is.” -Gwydion Pendderwen
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“The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.” -Alexander Penney
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“Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.” -J. C. Penney
“I will have no man work for me who has not the capacity to become a partner.” -J. C. Penney
“My definition of an executive’s job is brief and to the point. It is simply this: Getting things done through other people.” -J. C. Penney
“No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.” -J. C. Penney
“The art of effective listening is essential to clear communication, and clear communication is necessary to management success.” -J. C. Penney
“The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of deeds.” -J. C. Penney
James Cash Penney, Junior, also known as J. C. Penney, was born on 16 September 1875 in Hamilton, Missouri, United States of America. He was an American businessman and entrepreneur who, in 1902, founded J. C. Penney. In 1898, he began working for a small chain of stores in the western United States called the Golden Rule stores. In 1902, owners Guy Johnson and Thomas Callahan, impressed by his work ethic and salesmanship, offered him one-third partnership in a new store he would open. Penney invested $2,000 and moved to Kemmerer, Wyoming, to open a store there. He participated in opening two more stores, and when Callahan and Johnson dissolved their partnership in 1907, he purchased full interest in all three stores. James Cash Penney, Junior passed on at 95 years of age on 12 February 1971 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.” -Samuel Pepys
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“If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.” -Frank Perdue
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“No man is free who depends on his government for his sustenance, job, home, or hope. No constitution, no court, no law can save liberty when it dies in the hearts and minds of men.” -John Perkins
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“My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.” -Stephanie Perkins
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“Someday may never come. So live each day better than the last. That way you’ll wake up with so much excitement and anticipation you’ll jump out of bed and shout, ‘I can’t wait!’” -Bob Perks
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“Eagles don’t flock, you have to find them one at a time.” -Ross Perot
“Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart.” -Ross Perot
“Most new jobs won’t come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We’ve got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality.” -Ross Perot
“Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they’re going to make mistakes.” -Ross Perot
“Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You’d be amazed how many companies don’t listen to their customers.” -Ross Perot
“The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.” -Ross Perot
Henry Ross ‘Ross’ Perot was born on 27 June 1930 in Texarkana, Texas, United States of America. He was an American businessman, philanthropist, and independent candidate for the office of the President of the United States of America in 1992 and 1996. Henry Ross ‘Ross’ Perot passed on at 89 years of age on 9 July 2019 in Dallas, Texas, United States of America. Website https://www.rossperot.com/.
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“A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.” -John J. Pershing
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“Celebrate what you want to see more of.” -Tom Peters
“Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.” -Tom Peters
“Management by wandering around may be the most important thing managers can do to improve work quality and productivity.” -Tom Peters
“The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.” -Tom Peters
“Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.” -Tom Peters (1987)
“We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails . . . excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.” -Tom Peters
Thomas J. ‘Tom’ Peters was born in 1942. He is a writer and a speaker.
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“Champion the right to be yourself; dare to be different and to set your own pattern, live your own life, and follow your own star.” -Wilferd Peterson
“Let your light shine. Be a source of strength and courage. Share your wisdom. Radiate love.” -Wilferd Peterson
“The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.” -Wilferd Peterson
“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground.” -Wilferd Peterson
Wilferd Arlan Peterson was born in 1900 in Whitehall, Michigan, United States of America. He was a writer for “This Week,” a Sunday magazine supplement in newspapers, a monthly columnist for “Science of Mind” magazine, and author of nine books, starting with, “The Art of Getting Along: Inspiration for Triumphant Daily Living” (1949). Wilferd Arlan Peterson passed on in 1995.
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“The experience may have been costly, but it was also priceless.” -Peter G. Peterson
Peter G. Peterson was born in 1926.
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“A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.” -Francesco Petrarch: as quoted in Bergen Evans: “Dictionary of Quotations” (1968)
“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.” -Francesco Petrarca
Francesco Petrarca, also known as Francesco Petrarch, was born on 20 July 1304. He was a scholar and poet of Renaissance Italy. He is known for developing the concept of the ‘Dark Ages.’ Francesco Petrarca passed on at 69 years of age on 19 July 1374.
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“He has gone over to the majority.” -Petronius
“We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.” -Petronius (about C.E. 60)
Petronius Arbiter, also known simply as Petronius, was a courtier during the reign of Nero in ancient Rome. He is generally believed to be the author of the “Satyricon,” a satirical novel possibly written during the Neronian era.
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“Wear the old coat and buy the new book.” -Austin Phelps
Austin Phelps was born on 7 January 1820 in West Brookfield, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a Christian pastor and a college professor and president of Andover Theological Seminary. Austin Phelps passed on at 70 years of age on 13 October 1890 in Bar Harbor, Maine, United States of America.
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“If happiness truly consists in physical ease and freedom of care, then the happiest individual would not be either a man or a woman; it would be, I think, an American cow.” -William Lyon Phelps
“The principle of happiness should be like the principle of virtue: it should not be dependent of things, but be a part of personality.” -William Lyon Phelps
William Lyon ‘Billy’ Phelps was born on 2 January 1865 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America. He became a writer, a radio show host, a newspaper columnist, and a professor of English literature. William Lyon ‘Billy’ Phelps passed on at 78 years of age on 21 August 1943 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.
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“Great wealth and content seldom live together.” -Bob Phillips
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“Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.” -Bum Phillips
Oail Andrew ‘Bum’ Phillips, Junior was born on 29 September 1923 in Orange, Texas, United States of America. He became a football coach at the high school, college, and professional levels. Oail Andrew ‘Bum’ Phillips, Junior passed on at 90 years of age on 18 October 2013 in Goliad, Texas, United States of America.
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“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” -Wendell Phillips
“What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.” -Wendell Phillips
Wendell Phillips was born on 29 November 1811 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a lawyer and an orator (public speaker). He opened a law practice in 1834 in Boston. Wendell Phillips passed on in 1884.
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“Funny thing, but we always think every other man’s job is easier than our own. And the better he does it, the easier it looks.” -Eden Phillpotts
Eden Phillpotts was born in 1862. He was a novelist, a playwright, and a poet who published more than 250 books. Eden Phillpotts passed on in 1960.
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“Life is what we make it and the world is what we make it. The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.” -Albert Pike
“To hear patiently, to weigh deliberately and dispassionately, and to decide impartially; these are the chief duties of a Judge.” -Albert Pike
Albert Pike was born on 29 December 1809. He was an American lawyer, soldier, journalist, and writer. He is the only Confederate military officer to be honored with an outdoor statue in Washington, District of Columbia (in Judiciary Square). Albert Pike passed on at 81 years of age on 2 April 1891.
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“Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.” -Peace Pilgrim
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“Thinking positive thoughts will always empower you! Do it enough and it will change your life!” -Timothy Pina
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“It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling.” -Robert M. Pirsig
“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.” -Robert M. Pirsig
“We’re in such a hurry most of the time that we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it’s all gone.” -Robert M. Pirsig
Robert Maynard Pirsig was born on 6 September 1928 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America. He is an American philosopher and writer.
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“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.” -Camille Pissarro
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“He means well is useless unless he does well.” -Titus Maccius Plautus
“The day, water, Sun, Moon, night . . . I do not have to purchase these things with money.” -Titus Maccius Plautus
“Where there are friends, there is wealth.” -Titus Maccius Plautus
Titus Maccius Plautus was born in about 254 B.C.E. He was a Roman comic dramatist. He is known as the author of ‘Palliata Comoedia.’ Titus Maccius Plautus passed on in about 184 B.C.E.
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“. . . it’s not how other people treat you that makes you important and honorable. Rather, it’s how you treat others.” -Zelig Pliskin: “Building Your Self-image and the Self-image of Others,” Chapter 2
“A person with low self-esteem tends to overlook the positive things he has done, and instead focuses solely on his failures and mistakes. To help increase someone’s self-esteem and confidence, help him become aware of his strengths and resources. Even if someone has many faults and weaknesses, he certainly has shown some positive behavior from time to time. By pointing out how he has succeeded in a past endeavor, or how he was successful in learning at least one thing, or how he manifested strength and courage in a specific situation, you are giving him a powerful resource upon which he can build. You have the ability to raise someone’s entire self-image and encourage him to achieve important goals. This is a tremendous act of kindness.” -Zelig Pliskin: “Gateway to Happiness,” page 134
“Be aware of the positive attributes and behaviors of the people with whom you come into contact and help them build upon their strengths. Encouragement is a much more powerful tool for change and growth than blaming and condemning. You can bring about miracles in people’s lives if you believe in their potential.” -Rabbi Zelig Pliskin: “Gateway to Happiness,” page 388
“Be soft spoken: Always speak to others in a manner that makes it a pleasurable experience for them. Your tone of voice should be calm and pleasant. Do not speak in anger or raise your voice.” -Rabbi Zelig Pliskin: “Consulting the Wise”
“Encourage With Acknowledgment: If you try to teach someone and he understands a small amount, focus on the small amount he does understand and acknowledge this in order to motivate him further.” -Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
“Everyone in the world from the most successful to the least needs encouragement. Make it your career to give others encouragement.” -Rabbi Zelig Pliskin: “Gateway to Happiness,” page 388
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“Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations of words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.” -Plotinus
“Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.” -Plotinus
“Knowledge has three degrees - opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.” -Plotinus
Plotinus was born in about C.E. 205 in Lycopolis, Egypt. He was a philosopher of ancient Greece. He became a philosopher and was a co-founder along with Ammonius Saccas of Neoplatonism. He is known for his three principles: the One, the Intellect, and the Soul. Plotinus passed on at about 65 years of age in C.E. 270 near Minturnae, Campania, Italy.
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“To practice freedom is to tolerate mistakes, not in the sense of inviting or cultivating error, but as one of the prices to be paid in the endless search for improved ways and means toward meeting man’s rising expectations.” -Paul L. Poirot
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“We know more than we can tell.” -Michael Polanyi
Michael Polanyi was born in 1891. He was a Hungarian-born British scientist and philosopher. Michael Polanyi passed on in 1976.
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“Work is what you do so that some time you won’t have to do it anymore.” -Alfred Polgar
Alfred Polgar was born in 1873. He became an essayist. Alfred Polgar passed on in 1955.
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“Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.” -John G. Pollard
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“Do not allow your dreams of a beautiful world to lure you away from the claims of men who suffer here and now. Our fellow men have a claim to our help; no generation must be sacrificed for the sake of future generations.” -Karl Popper
Karl Raimund Popper was born on 28 July 1902 in Vienna, Austria. He was an Austrian-born British philosopher of science. Karl Raimund Popper passed on in 1994.
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“A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing.” -Antonio Porchia: “Voces” (1943), as translated from Spanish by W. S. Merwin
“One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.” -Antonio Porchia
“They will say you are on the wrong road if it is your own.” -Antonio Porchia
Antonio Porchia was born on 13 November 1885 in Conflenti, Italy. He became a poet. He moved to Argentina in 1900. He is known as the author of a book of aphorisms titled, “Voces” (English: “Voices”) (1943). Antonio Porchia passed on at 82 years of age on 9 November 1968.
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“What men and women need is encouragement . . . Instead of always harping on a man’s faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.” -Eleanor H. Porter: “Pollyanna” (1912)
Eleanor H. Porter was born in 1868. Eleanor H. Porter passed on in 1920.
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“The technique of infamy is to invent two lies, then get people arguing heatedly over which one of them is true.” -Ezra Pound
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was born on 30 October 1885. He married Dorothy Shakespear in 1914. He was an American expatriate writer, a poet, and a critic who lived in Asia. His best-known works include “Ripostes” (1912), “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” (1920), and his unfinished 120-section epic “The Cantos” (1917 - 1969). Ezra Weston Loomis Pound passed on at 87 years of age on 1 November 1972.
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“We have to stop constantly criticizing, which is the way of the malcontent, and instead get back to the can-do attitude that made America.” -Colin Powell
Colin Powell was born in 1937.
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“I’d rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel.” -Terry Pratchett
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” -Terry Pratchett
Terrence David John ‘Terry’ Pratchett was born on 28 April 1948 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England. He became a fantasy novelist. Terrence David John ‘Terry’ Pratchett passed on at 66 years of age on 12 March 2015 in Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, England.
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“If anyone wants to understand the course of man on Earth he must consider the fact of the long pause, three million years on the level of savagery, ten thousand years on the level of dependence on the fruits of hand labor, and a hundred or a hundred and fifty years of sudden sharp rise. One hundred or 150 years is the time included in what we call progress in man’s history.” -E. Parmalee Prentice
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“A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.” -George D. Prentice: “Prenticeana” (1860)
“It is vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.” -George D. Prentice
George Dennison Prentice was born on 18 December 1802 in Preston, Connecticut, United States of America. He was the editor of the “Louisville Journal” newspaper of Louisville, Kentucky. George Dennison Prentice passed on at 67 years of age on 22 January 1870 in Jefferson County, Kentucky, United States of America.
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“Like sands through the hourglass so are the days of our lives.” -attributed to Ed Prentiss: “Days of Our Lives” (1965) television show series
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“Don’t cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you’ve got.” -Steven Pressfield
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“I think by being happy it actually affects the way that you look, too.” -Kelly Preston
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“The great doing of little things makes the great life.” -Eugenia Price
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“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” -J. B. Priestley
“To show a child what has once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own, so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness.” -J. B. Priestley
John Boynton Priestley, also known as J. B. Priestley, was born in 1894. He was married to Jacquetta Hawkes. He became an English novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, essayist, social commentator, and broadcaster. His Yorkshire background is reflected in much of his fiction, notably in “The Good Companions,” which first brought him to wide public notice. Many of his plays are structured around a time slip, and he went on to develop a new theory of time, with different dimensions that link past, present and future. John Boynton Priestley passed on in 1984.
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“Good work is dignified. It develops your faculties and serves your community. It is a central human activity. Work in this view: makes you honest with yourself requires that you develop your faculties and skills empowers you to do what you are really good at and love to do connects you in a compassionate way with the outside world supports the philosophy of non-destructiveness and sustainability and integrates work with personal life and community.” -Roger Pritchard
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“As an inducement to hard work and economy nothing beats a big family.” -Herbert V. Prochnow
“Ignorance is a voluntary condition.” -Herbert V. Prochnow
Herbert Victor Prochnow, Senior was born on 19 May 1897 in Wilton, Wisconsin, United States of America. He became a banker, an event toastmaster, and a writer. Herbert Victor Prochnow, Senior passed on at 101 years of age on 29 September 1998 in Evanston, Illinois, United States of America.
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Have we not all, amid life’s petty strife,
Some pure ideal of a noble life
That once seemed possible? Did we not hear
The flutter of its wings, and feel it near,
And just within our reach? It was. And yet
We lost it in this daily jar and fret,
And now live idle in a vague regret;
But still our place is kept, and it will wait,
Ready for us to fill it, soon or late.
No star is ever lost we once have seen,
We always may be what we might have been.
-Adelaide Anne Procter: “A Legend of Provence”
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“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” -Marcel Proust
“Like everybody who is not in love he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.” -Marcel Proust
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” -Marcel Proust
“We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.” -Marcel Proust
Marcel Proust was born on 10 July 1871. He was a French novelist. Marcel Proust passed on at 51 years of age on 22 November 1922.
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“You don’t have to be smart. You don’t have to be beautiful. All you have to do is be yourself.” -Richard Pryor
Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor was born on 1 December 1940 in Peoria, Illinois, United States of America. He became a stand-up comedian and an actor. Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor passed on at 65 years of age on 10 December 2005 in Encino, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
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“Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.” -Ptahhotep: “Maxims of Ptahhotep” (3400 B.C.E.)
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“They are in front of us, behind us, and we are flanked on both sides by an enemy that outnumbers us 29 to 1. They can’t get away from us now!” -Lewis B. ‘Chesty’ Puller
Lewis B. ‘Chesty’ Puller was a soldier in the United States Marine Corps.
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“We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and brave and patient; and we’ve got to study and think, and work hard, all of us, in all our different worlds.” -Philip Pullman: “His Dark Materials” (1995 - 2000), page 1300; type of work: trilogy
Philip Pullman was born on 19 October 1946. He is a writer.
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“Those who wait to take action until they find themselves in a desperate situation face more difficulties than they need to.” -Catherine Pulsifer
“Don’t feed your mind with negative thoughts. If you do, you will come to believe them.” -Catherine Pulsifer
Catherine Pulsifer was born in 1927.
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“Strong people are ones who can smile for others’ happiness.” -Veronica Purcell
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Dance like there’s nobody watching,
love like you’ll never be hurt.
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
and live like it’s Heaven on Earth.
-William W. Purkey
William W. Purkey was born in 1929. He is an American writer and a professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the developer of a communication model called “Invitational Education” and co-founder with Betty Siegel of the International Alliance for Invitational Education.
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“Fear and worry are just the misuse of the creative powers we originally got to dream.” -Jannie Putter
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“And now for something completely different.” -Monty Python
“I think ordinary people in this country are sick and tired of being told that ordinary people in this country are sick and tired. I’m certainly not, and I’m sick and tired of being told that I am!” -Monty Python
“If life seems jolly rotten, there’s something you’ve forgotten! And that’s to laugh and smile and dance and sing . . .” -Monty Python
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