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“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world, but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true, I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.” -Frida Kahlo
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“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” -Henry J. Kaiser
Henry John Kaiser was born in 1882. He was an American shipbuilder. Henry John Kaiser passed on in 1967.
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“It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honorably.” -Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant was born on 22 April 1724 in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). He became a philosopher. Immanuel Kant passed on at 79 years of age on 12 February 1804 in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia).
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“To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.” -Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Rosabeth Moss Kanter was born on 15 March 1943. She is a writer and a public speaker.
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“Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in the muscles.” -Alex Karras
Alex Karras is a pro football player.
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“One does not succeed by sticking to convention.” -Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov is a professional chess player.
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“Instead of doubting yourself, look at all the impossible tasks that men and women have achieved over the years, and use this as motivation to push yourself even further, in order to achieve your dreams and reach your goals.” -Suzy Kassem
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“A timeocracy is the opposite of a meritocracy: people get promoted not based on their talent or performance (merit), but on the time they’ve been at the company.” -Vitaliy N. Katsenelson
Vitaliy N. Katsenelson is chief investment officer at Investment Management Associates in Denver, Colorado, United States of America. He is known as the author of, “The Little Book of Sideways Markets” (2010).
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“Every organization is self-perpetuating. Don’t ever ask an outfit to justify itself, or you’ll be covered with facts, figures and fancy. The criterion should rather be, “What will happen if the outfit stops doing what it’s doing?” The value of an organization is easier determined this way.” -Amrom Katz
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“Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.” -Ellie Katz
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“I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.” -Anna Kavan
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“It is far better to be exhausted from success then to be rested from failure.” -Mary Kay
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“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” -Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye was born in 1913. He was an American singer, dancer, comedian, and actor. Danny Kaye passed on in 1987.
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“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” -John Keats: “Endymion” (1818), book 1, line 1
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
-John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1820)
John Keats (jŏn kēts) was born on 31 October 1795 in London, England. He became one of England’s outstanding Romantic poets. Between the ages of 18 and 24, he wrote poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. His first volume of poetry appeared in 1817 and included his poem “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer.” His poems of 1820, “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” and “To Autumn,” are unequaled for dignity, beauty, and imagery. Also well-known is his melodic poem “The Eve of Saint Agnes” (1820). John Keats passed on at 26 years of age on 23 February 1821 in Rome, Italy.
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“I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day’s events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs.” -Sam Keen
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“If you’re positive and enthusiastic, people will want to spend time with you.” -Jeff Keller
“There is no such thing as failure, only results, with some more successful than others.” -Jeff Keller
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“Remember the difference between a boss and a leader: A boss says, ‘Go.’ A leader says, ‘Let’s go.’” -E. M. Kelly
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“Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.” -Mary Ann Kelty
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“Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.” -Corita Kent
Mary Corita Kent was born as Frances Elizabeth Kent on 20 November 1918 in Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States of America. She was an American Catholic religious sister and a graphic artist. Mary Corita Kent passed on at 67 years of age on 18 September 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.” -Carolyn Kenmore
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“Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident.” -Nancy Kerrigan
Nancy Kerrigan is an American figure skater.
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“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.” -Charles F. Kettering
Charles Franklin Kettering was born on 29 August 1876 in Loudonville, Ohio, United States of America. He became an engineer, an inventor, an industrialist, and a business executive. Charles Franklin Kettering passed on at 82 years of age on 25 November 1958 in Dayton, Ohio, United States of America.
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“To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.” -Ken Keyes, Junior
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“A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.” -John Maynard Keynes: “The End of Laissez-Faire” (1926) chapter 1
John Maynard Keynes was born on 5 June 1883 in Cambridge, England. He became an economist. John Maynard Keynes passed on at 62 years of age on 21 April 1946 in Cambridge, England.
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“Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I’m awaiting virtuous reality.” -Eli Khamarov: “Lives of the Cognoscenti”
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“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” -Victor Kiam
“What’s really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking a 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
Victor Kiam was born in 1926. He became a business leader. Victor Kiam passed on in 2001.
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“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.” -Søren Kierkegaard
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” -Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was born on 5 May 1813 in Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark. He became a philosopher, a theologian, a poet, and a social critic. Søren Aabye Kierkegaard passed on at 42 years of age on 11 November 1855 in Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark.
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“A dozen times a day we come to a fork in the road and must decide which way we will go. It is important to get our ultimate objectives clearly in mind so that we do not become distracted at each fork in the road by the irrelevant questions: Which is the easier or more pleasant way? Or, which way are others going?” -Spencer W. Kimball: as quoted in Edward L. Kimball, editor: “Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball” (1982), page 164
“With the arrival of Spring, we hope all of you will put in your gardens and prepare to enjoy their produce this Summer. We hope you are making this a family affair, with everyone, even the little ones, assigned to something. There is so much to learn and harvest from your garden, far more than just a crop itself.” -Spencer W. Kimball: speech at the General Conference (April 1978)
Spencer Woolley Kimball was born on 28 March 1895 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. He became a leader in the Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints. Spencer Woolley Kimball passed on at 90 years of age on 5 November 1985 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
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“Life is ten percent what happens to us and ninety percent how we react to it.” -Dennis P. Kimbro
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“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” -B. B. King
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“Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors: Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.” -Florence King
“When people stop reading the Bible and Shakespeare, they cut themselves off from an enormous number of figures of speech used in the English language. Growing up without these models, they never develop the habit of using simile and metaphor themselves. Eventually they develop a fear and loathing of all such literary conventions and a conviction that anyone who uses them is being somehow ‘insincere.’ No wonder ringing political oratory is dead. No candidate would dare.” -Florence King, as quoted in “National Review” (23 July 2001)
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“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” -Stephen King
“If you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” -Stephen King
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” -Stephen King
“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.” -Stephen King
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” -Stephen King
Stephen King was born in 1947. He is an American writer of horror novels and fiction.
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“What you know got you where you are. To get where you want to go, you’ve got to make some changes, and more than likely learn new things.” -Ian Kinnery
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“The words ‘I am’ . . . are potent words; be careful what you hitch to them. The thing you’re claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.” -A. L. Kitselman
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“Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.” -Robert T. Kiyosaki
“It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.” -Robert T. Kiyosaki
“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.” -Robert Kiyosaki
“Whenever you feel ‘short’ or in ‘need’ of something, give what you want first and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a smile, love, friendship. I know it is often the last thing a person may want to do, but it has always worked for me. I just trust that the principle of reciprocity is true, and I give what I want.” -Robert T. Kiyosaki
“You choose the life you live. If you don’t like it, it’s on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.” -Kim Kiyosaki
“Your future is created by what you do today - not tomorrow . . .” -Robert T. Kiyosaki
Robert Toru Kiyosaki was born in 1947. He is an American investor, businessman, self-help author, motivational speaker, financial literacy activist, and financial commentator. Mr. Kiyosaki is known for his “Rich Dad. Poor Dad” series of motivational books and has written more than 15 books.
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“There are no language barriers when you are smiling.” -Allen Klein
“Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.” -Allen Klein
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“In every activity do your best and let the world make its own appraisal. You are what you are. Explanations seldom explain. Cultivate a fine sense of independence, based upon the assurance that you are loyal to a high standard of conduct.” -Grenville Kleiser
“Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.” -Grenville Kleiser
“There are many fine things which you mean to do some day under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others.” -Grenville Kleiser
“Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.” -Grenville Kleiser
Grenville Kleiser was born on 25 July 1868 in Toronto, Canada. He was married to Elizabeth Margaret Thompson on 5 July 1894. He became an American instructor in public speaking at the Yale Divinity School of Yale University, and a writer of humor and inspiration. Grenville Kleiser passed on at 85 years of age on 27 August 1953 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“Everyone has the will to win; what is important is the will to prepare.” -Bobby Knight
“Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.” -Bobby Knight
“The will to win is not nearly so important as the will to prepare to win.” -Bobby Knight
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Driving down the wrong road and knowing it,
The fork years behind, how many have thought
To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car
Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many
Are still mazed among dock and thistle,
Seeking the road they should have taken?
-Damon Knight: “The Man in the Tree” (1984)
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“Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual.” -Frank Hyneman Knight
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“Treat others as you would like them to treat you, but, you can not do for others what they are unwilling to do for themselves.” -Lisa Knutson
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“Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.” -Kay Knudsen
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“A big corporation is more or less blamed for being big; it is only big because it gives service. If it doesn’t give service it gets small faster than it grew big.” -William S. Knudsen
“The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today or at any time.” -William S. Knudsen
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“My purposes are the geography that marks out my line of travel toward the person I want to be.” -Alice Koeller
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“No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.” -Kathe Kollwitz
Kathe Kollwitz was born in 1867. Kathe Kollwitz passed on in 1945.
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“For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the difficult or boring stages which are inevitably encountered.” -Mira Komarovsky (born 1906)
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“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce.” -Vivian Komori
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“All of the significant battles are waged within the self.” -Sheldon Kopp
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“Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.” -Michael Korda
“The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.” -Michael Korda
Michael Korda was born in 1919. He was an American publisher. Michael Korda passed on in 1973.
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“The most needed, wanted, and powerful activity in which you can engage on or off the job is to authentically recognize, acknowledge, and appreciate others.” -Brian Koslow
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“If you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror.” -Shane Koyczan
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“Most people are so worried about their security that they are afraid to take the risks that let them really enjoy living.” -Paul Krapf
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“Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully.” -Stu Krieger
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“All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.” -Ray Kroc
“If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.” -Ray Kroc
“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.” -Ray Kroc
“There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.” -Ray Kroc
“While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.” -Ray Kroc
“You’re only as good as the people you hire.” -Ray Kroc
Raymond Albert ‘Ray’ Kroc was born in 1902. He was an American businessman and philanthropist. He joined McDonald’s in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. Like KFC founder Harland Sanders, Ray Kroc’s success came later in life, when he was past his fiftieth birthday. Raymond Albert ‘Ray’ Kroc passed on in 1984.
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“The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.” -Louis Kronenberger
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“Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.” -Harold Kushner
“If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.” -Harold Kushner
“No one ever promised us a life free from pain and disappointment. The most anyone promised us was that we would not be alone in our pain, and that we would be able to draw upon a source outside ourselves for the strength and courage we would need to survive life’s tragedies and life’s unfairness.” -Harold Kushner: “When Bad Things Happen to Good People” (1981)
Harold Samuel Kushner was born on 3 April 1935 in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. He is a Jewish rabbi, a University instructor, and a writer. He is known for his book, “When Bad Things Happen to Good People” (1981).
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“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world, but then I thought, there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true, I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.” -Frida Kahlo
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“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” -Henry J. Kaiser
Henry John Kaiser was born in 1882. He was an American shipbuilder. Henry John Kaiser passed on in 1967.
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“It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honorably.” -Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant was born on 22 April 1724 in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). He became a philosopher. Immanuel Kant passed on at 79 years of age on 12 February 1804 in Königsberg, Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia).
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“To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.” -Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Rosabeth Moss Kanter was born on 15 March 1943. She is a writer and a public speaker.
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“Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in the muscles.” -Alex Karras
Alex Karras is a pro football player.
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“One does not succeed by sticking to convention.” -Garry Kasparov
Garry Kasparov is a professional chess player.
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“Instead of doubting yourself, look at all the impossible tasks that men and women have achieved over the years, and use this as motivation to push yourself even further, in order to achieve your dreams and reach your goals.” -Suzy Kassem
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“A timeocracy is the opposite of a meritocracy: people get promoted not based on their talent or performance (merit), but on the time they’ve been at the company.” -Vitaliy N. Katsenelson
Vitaliy N. Katsenelson is chief investment officer at Investment Management Associates in Denver, Colorado, United States of America. He is known as the author of, “The Little Book of Sideways Markets” (2010).
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“Every organization is self-perpetuating. Don’t ever ask an outfit to justify itself, or you’ll be covered with facts, figures and fancy. The criterion should rather be, “What will happen if the outfit stops doing what it’s doing?” The value of an organization is easier determined this way.” -Amrom Katz
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“Warning: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.” -Ellie Katz
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“I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons.” -Anna Kavan
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“It is far better to be exhausted from success then to be rested from failure.” -Mary Kay
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“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” -Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye was born in 1913. He was an American singer, dancer, comedian, and actor. Danny Kaye passed on in 1987.
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“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” -John Keats: “Endymion” (1818), book 1, line 1
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all
Ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
-John Keats: “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1820)
John Keats (jŏn kēts) was born on 31 October 1795 in London, England. He became one of England’s outstanding Romantic poets. Between the ages of 18 and 24, he wrote poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. His first volume of poetry appeared in 1817 and included his poem “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer.” His poems of 1820, “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” and “To Autumn,” are unequaled for dignity, beauty, and imagery. Also well-known is his melodic poem “The Eve of Saint Agnes” (1820). John Keats passed on at 26 years of age on 23 February 1821 in Rome, Italy.
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“I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day’s events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs.” -Sam Keen
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“If you’re positive and enthusiastic, people will want to spend time with you.” -Jeff Keller
“There is no such thing as failure, only results, with some more successful than others.” -Jeff Keller
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“Remember the difference between a boss and a leader: A boss says, ‘Go.’ A leader says, ‘Let’s go.’” -E. M. Kelly
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“Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.” -Mary Ann Kelty
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“Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.” -Corita Kent
Mary Corita Kent was born as Frances Elizabeth Kent on 20 November 1918 in Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States of America. She was an American Catholic religious sister and a graphic artist. Mary Corita Kent passed on at 67 years of age on 18 September 1986 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.” -Carolyn Kenmore
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“Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose. Everyone has bad stretches and real successes. Either way, you have to be careful not to lose your confidence or get too confident.” -Nancy Kerrigan
Nancy Kerrigan is an American figure skater.
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“There exist limitless opportunities in every industry. Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.” -Charles F. Kettering
Charles Franklin Kettering was born on 29 August 1876 in Loudonville, Ohio, United States of America. He became an engineer, an inventor, an industrialist, and a business executive. Charles Franklin Kettering passed on at 82 years of age on 25 November 1958 in Dayton, Ohio, United States of America.
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“To be upset over what you don’t have is to waste what you do have.” -Ken Keyes, Junior
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“A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.” -John Maynard Keynes: “The End of Laissez-Faire” (1926) chapter 1
John Maynard Keynes was born on 5 June 1883 in Cambridge, England. He became an economist. John Maynard Keynes passed on at 62 years of age on 21 April 1946 in Cambridge, England.
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“Most people are awaiting Virtual Reality; I’m awaiting virtuous reality.” -Eli Khamarov: “Lives of the Cognoscenti”
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“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” -Victor Kiam
“What’s really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking a 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
Victor Kiam was born in 1926. He became a business leader. Victor Kiam passed on in 2001.
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“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.” -Søren Kierkegaard
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” -Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was born on 5 May 1813 in Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark. He became a philosopher, a theologian, a poet, and a social critic. Søren Aabye Kierkegaard passed on at 42 years of age on 11 November 1855 in Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark.
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“A dozen times a day we come to a fork in the road and must decide which way we will go. It is important to get our ultimate objectives clearly in mind so that we do not become distracted at each fork in the road by the irrelevant questions: Which is the easier or more pleasant way? Or, which way are others going?” -Spencer W. Kimball: as quoted in Edward L. Kimball, editor: “Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball” (1982), page 164
“With the arrival of Spring, we hope all of you will put in your gardens and prepare to enjoy their produce this Summer. We hope you are making this a family affair, with everyone, even the little ones, assigned to something. There is so much to learn and harvest from your garden, far more than just a crop itself.” -Spencer W. Kimball: speech at the General Conference (April 1978)
Spencer Woolley Kimball was born on 28 March 1895 in Salt Lake City, Utah Territory. He became a leader in the Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints. Spencer Woolley Kimball passed on at 90 years of age on 5 November 1985 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
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“Life is ten percent what happens to us and ninety percent how we react to it.” -Dennis P. Kimbro
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“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” -B. B. King
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“Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors: Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.” -Florence King
“When people stop reading the Bible and Shakespeare, they cut themselves off from an enormous number of figures of speech used in the English language. Growing up without these models, they never develop the habit of using simile and metaphor themselves. Eventually they develop a fear and loathing of all such literary conventions and a conviction that anyone who uses them is being somehow ‘insincere.’ No wonder ringing political oratory is dead. No candidate would dare.” -Florence King, as quoted in “National Review” (23 July 2001)
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“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” -Stephen King
“If you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” -Stephen King
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” -Stephen King
“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.” -Stephen King
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” -Stephen King
Stephen King was born in 1947. He is an American writer of horror novels and fiction.
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“What you know got you where you are. To get where you want to go, you’ve got to make some changes, and more than likely learn new things.” -Ian Kinnery
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“The words ‘I am’ . . . are potent words; be careful what you hitch to them. The thing you’re claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.” -A. L. Kitselman
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“Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.” -Robert T. Kiyosaki
“It’s not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.” -Robert T. Kiyosaki
“The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.” -Robert Kiyosaki
“Whenever you feel ‘short’ or in ‘need’ of something, give what you want first and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a smile, love, friendship. I know it is often the last thing a person may want to do, but it has always worked for me. I just trust that the principle of reciprocity is true, and I give what I want.” -Robert T. Kiyosaki
“You choose the life you live. If you don’t like it, it’s on you to change it because no one else is going to do it for you.” -Kim Kiyosaki
“Your future is created by what you do today - not tomorrow . . .” -Robert T. Kiyosaki
Robert Toru Kiyosaki was born in 1947. He is an American investor, businessman, self-help author, motivational speaker, financial literacy activist, and financial commentator. Mr. Kiyosaki is known for his “Rich Dad. Poor Dad” series of motivational books and has written more than 15 books.
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“There are no language barriers when you are smiling.” -Allen Klein
“Throughout history, great leaders have known the power of humor.” -Allen Klein
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“In every activity do your best and let the world make its own appraisal. You are what you are. Explanations seldom explain. Cultivate a fine sense of independence, based upon the assurance that you are loyal to a high standard of conduct.” -Grenville Kleiser
“Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.” -Grenville Kleiser
“There are many fine things which you mean to do some day under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others.” -Grenville Kleiser
“Today a thousand doors of enterprise are open to you inviting you to useful work. To live at this time is an inestimable privilege and a sacred obligation devolves upon you to make right use of your opportunities. Today is the day in which to attempt and achieve something worthwhile.” -Grenville Kleiser
Grenville Kleiser was born on 25 July 1868 in Toronto, Canada. He was married to Elizabeth Margaret Thompson on 5 July 1894. He became an American instructor in public speaking at the Yale Divinity School of Yale University, and a writer of humor and inspiration. Grenville Kleiser passed on at 85 years of age on 27 August 1953 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“Everyone has the will to win; what is important is the will to prepare.” -Bobby Knight
“Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.” -Bobby Knight
“The will to win is not nearly so important as the will to prepare to win.” -Bobby Knight
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Driving down the wrong road and knowing it,
The fork years behind, how many have thought
To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car
Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many
Are still mazed among dock and thistle,
Seeking the road they should have taken?
-Damon Knight: “The Man in the Tree” (1984)
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“Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual.” -Frank Hyneman Knight
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“Treat others as you would like them to treat you, but, you can not do for others what they are unwilling to do for themselves.” -Lisa Knutson
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“Love is missing someone whenever you’re apart but somehow feeling warm inside because you’re close in heart.” -Kay Knudsen
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“A big corporation is more or less blamed for being big; it is only big because it gives service. If it doesn’t give service it gets small faster than it grew big.” -William S. Knudsen
“The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today or at any time.” -William S. Knudsen
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“My purposes are the geography that marks out my line of travel toward the person I want to be.” -Alice Koeller
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“No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes.” -Kathe Kollwitz
Kathe Kollwitz was born in 1867. Kathe Kollwitz passed on in 1945.
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“For an interest to be rewarding, one must pay in discipline and dedication, especially though the difficult or boring stages which are inevitably encountered.” -Mira Komarovsky (born 1906)
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“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb but how well you bounce.” -Vivian Komori
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“All of the significant battles are waged within the self.” -Sheldon Kopp
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“Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.” -Michael Korda
“The freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.” -Michael Korda
Michael Korda was born in 1919. He was an American publisher. Michael Korda passed on in 1973.
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“The most needed, wanted, and powerful activity in which you can engage on or off the job is to authentically recognize, acknowledge, and appreciate others.” -Brian Koslow
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“If you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror.” -Shane Koyczan
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“Most people are so worried about their security that they are afraid to take the risks that let them really enjoy living.” -Paul Krapf
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“Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen carefully.” -Stu Krieger
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“All money means to me is a pride in accomplishment.” -Ray Kroc
“If you have time to lean, you have time to clean.” -Ray Kroc
“If you work just for money, you’ll never make it, but if you love what you’re doing and you always put the customer first, success will be yours.” -Ray Kroc
“There’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish if you set your mind to it.” -Ray Kroc
“While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap.” -Ray Kroc
“You’re only as good as the people you hire.” -Ray Kroc
Raymond Albert ‘Ray’ Kroc was born in 1902. He was an American businessman and philanthropist. He joined McDonald’s in 1954 and built it into the most successful fast food operation in the world. Like KFC founder Harland Sanders, Ray Kroc’s success came later in life, when he was past his fiftieth birthday. Raymond Albert ‘Ray’ Kroc passed on in 1984.
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“The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination.” -Louis Kronenberger
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“Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.” -Harold Kushner
“If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.” -Harold Kushner
“No one ever promised us a life free from pain and disappointment. The most anyone promised us was that we would not be alone in our pain, and that we would be able to draw upon a source outside ourselves for the strength and courage we would need to survive life’s tragedies and life’s unfairness.” -Harold Kushner: “When Bad Things Happen to Good People” (1981)
Harold Samuel Kushner was born on 3 April 1935 in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. He is a Jewish rabbi, a University instructor, and a writer. He is known for his book, “When Bad Things Happen to Good People” (1981).
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“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.” -Charles Lamb
“’Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.” -Charles Lamb
“We see the world not as it is but as we are.” -Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb, also known by the pseudonym Elia, was born on 10 February 1775 in Inner Temple, London, England. He was a clerk in the East India offices and later became an essayist and a poet. His works include “Tales from Shakespeare,” written in collaboration with his sister, and “Essays of Elia.” Charles Lamb passed on at 59 years of age on 27 December 1834 in Edmonton, London, England.
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“A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.” -Louis L’Amour
“If you wait for inspiration, you’re not a writer, but a waiter.” -Louis L’Amour
“One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has.” -Louis L’Amour
“There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.” -Louis L’Amour
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” -Louis L’Amour
Louis L’Amour was born as Louis Dearborn LaMoore on 22 March 1908 in Jamestown, North Dakota, United States of America. He became a writer of Western novels. Louis L’Amour passed on at 80 years of age on 10 June 1988 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
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“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” -Edwin Herbert Land: as quoted in “A Genius and His Magic Camera” in “LIFE” magazine (27 October 1972); also in “The Instant Image: Edwin Land and the Polaroid Experience (1978)” by Mark Olshaker, page 65
“Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.” -Edwin Herbert Land
“My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn’t know they had.” -Edwin Herbert Land: as quoted in ‘A Talk with Polaroid’s Dr. Edwin Land’ published in “Forbes” (1 April 1975), Volume 115, Number, page 49
Edwin Herbert Land was born in 1909. Edwin Herbert Land passed on in 1991.
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“As the firefly only shines when on the wing, so it is with the human mind - when at rest, it darkens.” -Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.” -Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.” -Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.” -Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, also known by initials L. E. L., was born on 14 August 1802 in Chelsea, London, England. She became a poet and a novelist. Letitia Elizabeth Landon passed on at 36 years of age on 15 October 1838 in Cape Coast Castle, Gold Coast (now Ghana), Africa.
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“Levity is the soul of wit.” -Melville D. Landon
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“Something constructive comes from every defeat.” -Tom Landry
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“There will be times in life when impossibility is felt, but then there are dreams - and dreams allow us possibility.” -Jeffrey David Lang
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“Love is a gift. You can’t buy it, you can’t find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift.” -Kurt Langner
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“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.” -Lucy Larcom
“If the world’s a veil of tears, smile till rainbows span it.” -Lucy Larcom
“Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.” -Lucy Larcom
Lucy Larcom was born on about 5 March 1824 in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became a teacher, a writer, and a poet. Lucy Larcom passed on at 69 years of age on 17 April 1893 in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn’t ordered.” -Ring Lardner
“They gave each other a smile with a future in it.” -Ring Lardner
Ringgold Wilmer ‘Ring’ Lardner was born in 1885. He was an American writer and satirist. Ringgold Wilmer ‘Ring’ Lardner passed on in 1933.
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“Promise Yourself . . . To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.” -Christy Larson: “Promise Yourself”
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“A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.” -Doug Larson
“Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.” -Doug Larson
“Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.” -Doug Larson
“The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there’s only one other choice.” -Doug Larson
“The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.” -Doug Larson
“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.” -Doug Larson
“To err is human; to admit it superhuman.” -Doug Larson
Doug Larson was born in 1902. He was an American journalist. Doug Larson passed on in 1981.
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“Your joy comes from what you give, not from what you accumulate.” -Frank Laubach
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“I never dreamt of success. I worked for it.” -Estée Lauder
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“It’s not what we have in our life, but who we have in our life that counts.” -J. M. Laurence
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“Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.” -Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all.” -Johann Kaspar Lavater: as quoted in “The Pocket Magazine of Classics and Polite Literature” (1818), volume 2
“Who gives a trifle meanly, is meaner than the trifle.” -Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater was born in 1741. He was a Swiss writer, Protestant Christian pastor, and the founder of physiognomics. Johann Kaspar Lavater passed on in 1801.
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“I am very fond of Sussex - it is so full of sky and wind and weather.” -D. H. Lawrence
“I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.” -D. H. Lawrence
“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” -D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence, also known as D. H. Lawrence, was born on 11 September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England. He was a novelist, a poet, a playwright, an essayist, a literary critic, and a painter. David Herbert Lawrence passed on at 44 years of age on 2 March 1930 in Vence, France.
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“If we must all agree, all work together, we’re no better than a machine. If an individual can’t work in solidarity with his fellows, it’s his duty to work alone. His duty and his right. We have been denying people that right. We’ve been saying, more and more often, you must work with the others, you must accept the rule of the majority. But any rule is tyranny. The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive.” -Ursula K. Le Guin: “The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia” (May 1974)
“It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” -Ursula K. Le Guin: “The Left Hand of Darkness” (1969)
“To oppose something is to maintain it.” -Ursula K. Le Guin
“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?” -Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was born on 21 October 1929 in Berkeley, California, United States of America. She is a novelist, a short story writer, a poet, and an essayist. Author website http://www.ursulakleguin.com/.
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“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” -Barry Le Patner
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“It is the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.” -C. W. Leadbeater
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“What you need is an idea.” -William P. Lear
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“The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts. Think, act, and talk negatively, and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm, and you will attract positive results.” -Michael LeBoeuf
“Think, act, and talk with enthusiasm and you’ll attract positive results.” -Michael LeBoeuf: “Attitude is Everything”
Michael LeBoeuf was born on 27 February 1942 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America. He is a writer and a former professor of management at the University of New Orleans.
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“He who limps is still walking.” -Stanislaw J. Lec
“I prefer the sign ‘No Entry’ to the one that says ‘No Exit’.” -Stanislaw J. Lec
“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.” -Stanislaw J. Lec
“Youth is the gift of nature but age is a work of art.” -Stanislaw J. Lec
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec was born on 6 March 1909 in Lemberg, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine). He became a writer, a poet, and an aphorist. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec passed on at 57 years of age on 7 May 1966 in Warsaw, Poland.
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“A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” -Bruce Lee
“Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I’m still learning, for learning is boundless.” -Bruce Lee: as quoted in John Little: “Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee’s Commentaries on the Martial Way” (1997), Part 6: ‘Beyond System - The Ultimate Source of Jeet Kune Do’
“Let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.” -Bruce Lee: “The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee” (1996), page 126
“Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.” -Bruce Lee: as quoted in John Little, editor: “Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living” (2000), Part I: ‘On First Principles,’ page 2
“Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.” -Bruce Lee
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.” -Bruce Lee
“To be discouraged is to be defeated - it is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man. No man is defeated unless he is discouraged.” -Bruce Lee
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” -Bruce Lee: as quoted in Bruce Thomas, author: “Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit” (1994), page 44
Bruce Lee is a pseudonym of Lee Jun-fan, who was born on 27 November 1940 in San Francisco, California, United States of America. He became a martial artist, a martial artist instructor, and an actor. Lee Jun-fan passed on at 32 years of age on 20 July 1973 in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.
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“Don’t be down on that you’re not up on.” -Harold B. Lee
“Don’t try to live too many days at a time.” -Harold B. Lee
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“A man who wishes to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” -Jack Lee
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“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.” -Robert E. Lee
“You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.” -Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee was born in 1807. He was a military general in the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Robert E. Lee passed on in 1870.
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“Be mindful of your self-talk. It’s a conversation with the Universe.” -David James Lees
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“Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.” -John Lehman
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“Good words do more than hard speeches as the sunbeams without any noise will make the traveler cast off his cloak which all the blustering winds could not do but only make him bind it closer to him.” -Robert Leighton
“Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware.” -Robert Leighton
“Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgement of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desire of the best and wisest of the species.” -Robert Leighton: “Theological Lectures,” No. 5, ‘Of the Immortality of the Soul,’ published in “Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations” (1922), page 514
Robert Leighton was born in 1611 in London, England. He became a minister and later bishop of Dunblane, archbishop of Glasgow, and principal of the University of Edinburgh (1653 - 1662). Robert Leighton passed on at about 73 years of age on 25 June 1684 in London, England.
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“If I’m not free to fail, I’m not free to take risks, and everything in life that’s worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.” -Madeleine L’Engle
Madeleine L’Engle Camp was born on 29 November 1918 in New York City, New York, United States of America. She became a novelist. She is known for books including “A Wrinkle in Time” (1962), “A Wind in the Door” (1973), and “Many Waters” (1986). Madeleine L’Engle Camp passed on at 88 years of age on 6 September 2007 in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States of America.
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“I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: ‘This could be interesting.” -Paddy Lennox (2009)
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“You can’t run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.” -John Leo
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“The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.” -Aleksei Leonov
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“Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.” -Doris Lessing
“Laughter is by definition healthy.” -Doris Lessing
“I’m always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.” -Doris Lessing
“It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.” -Doris Lessing
Doris May Lessing, also known by the pseudonym Jane Somers, was born as Doris May Tayler on 22 October 1919 in Kermanshah, Iran. She lived on a farm in Rhodesia from 1924 to 1949, and then settled in England. She became novelist, a poet, a playwright, a librettist, a biographer, and a short story writer. Doris May Lessing passed on at 94 years of age on 17 November 2013 in London, England.
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“A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.” -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.” -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: as attributed in “Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association” (1907), volumes 46 and 47
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born on 22 January 1729 in Kamenz, Germany. He became a writer, a dramatist, a philosopher, a publicist, and an art critic. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing passed on at 52 years of age on 15 February 1781 in Brunswick, Germany.
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“You can fool all the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.” -Joseph E. Levine
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“Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.” -George Henry Lewes
George Henry Lewes was born in 1817. He was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre. George Henry Lewes passed on in 1878.
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“Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself to others. It is because we are different that each of us is special. Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important, only know what is best for you.” -Ken Lewis
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“I ascended to the top of a cut bluff this morning, from whence I had a most delightful view of the country, the whole of which, except the valley formed by the Missouri, is void of timber or underbrush, exposing to the first glance of the spectator immense herds of Buffalo, Elk, Deer, and Antelopes feeding in one common and boundless pasture.” -Meriwether Lewis: in eastern Montana (22 April 1805)
Meriwether Lewis was born in 1774. He was an American explorer. Meriwether Lewis passed on in 1809.
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“‘The trouble with this country is,’ observed Herndon, ‘that there are too many people going about saying, ‘The trouble with this country is.’’” -Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885. He was an American novelist and playwright. Sinclair Lewis passed on in 1951.
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“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” -W. M. Lewis
William Mather Lewis was born on 24 March 1878 in Howell, Michigan, United States of America. He became a teacher, a university president, a politician, and a federal government official. William Mather Lewis passed on at 67 years of age on 11 November 1945 in Colebrook, Connecticut, United States of America.
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“Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they’re worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was born in 1742. He was a German physicist and drama critic. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg passed on in 1799.
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“For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“The world has different owners at sunrise . . . Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born in 1906. She was an American aviator and writer; author of “Gift from the Sea” (1955). She was married to aviator Charles Lindbergh. Anne Morrow Lindbergh passed on in 2001.
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“Don’t tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.” -James Ling
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“He who hesitates because he feels inferior is being surpassed by he who is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” -Henry Link
Henry Charles Link was born in 1889. He became a psychologist. His written works include, “The Return to Religion” (1936). Henry Charles Link passed on in 1952.
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“He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become as wise at sixty as he thought himself at twenty.” -Mary Wilson Little
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“It is not where you begin, it is where you end that counts.” -Faith Littlefield
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“I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.” -David Livingstone
David Livingstone was born in 1813. He was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. He was married to Mary Moffat. David Livingstone passed on in 1873.
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“Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.” -Livy
“In great straits and when hope is small the boldest counsels are the safest.” -Livy
“Woe to the vanquished.” -Livy
Titus Livius, also known as Livy, was born in 59 B.C.E. in Padua, Italy. He became a historian in ancient Rome. Titus Livius passed on in C.E. 17. In Padua, Italy.
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“A little of what you fancy does you good.” -Marie Lloyd
Marie Lloyd, also known as Bella Delmer, is a pseudonym of Matilda Alice Victoria Wood
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“The amount of litter in the street is proportional to the local rate of unemployment.” -David Lloyd-Jones
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“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.” -John Locke
“I have always thought the actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.” -John Locke
John Locke was born on 29 August 1632 in Sommersetshire, England. He became a physician and a political and educational philosopher. John Locke passed on at 72 years of age on 28 October 1704 in High Laver, England.
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“The discussion of philosophy is over; it’s time for work to begin.” -Peter Loewer
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“To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” -William Londen
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“What really matters is what you do with what you have.” -Shirley Lord
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“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.” -Sophia Loren
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” -Sophia Loren
“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.” -Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren is a pseudonym of Sophia Sciccoloni, who was born in 1934. She is an Italian actress.
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“Every great story happened when someone decided not to give up.” -Spryte Loriano
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“If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.” -Ronnie Lott
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“There is no right path. Only the one that allows you to sleep soundly and wake up excited.” -Jennifer Louden
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“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” -William Louden
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“I choose not be what the world is. Rather, I choose to be what the world says I cannot be.” -Craig D. Lounsbrough
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“Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heartwarming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.” -Lawrence G. Lovasik
“Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.” -Lawrence G. Lovasik
Lawrence George Lovasik was born on 22 June 1913 in Tarentum, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He became a Catholic priest. Lawrence George Lovasik passed on at 72 years of age on 9 June 1986 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
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“A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.” -James Russell Lowell
“Aim high, you normally hit what you aim for. Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.” -James Russell Lowell
“Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim, is crime.” -James Russell Lowell
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.” -James Russell Lowell
“The cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.” -James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell was born on 22 February 1819 in Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became an essayist, a poet, an editor, and a diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers. They often had conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside. He was the first editor of the “Atlantic Monthly” (1857 - 1861). James Russell Lowell passed on at 72 years of age on 12 August 1891 in Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern.” -Max Lucado: as quoted in “Reader’s Digest” (March 1998)
Max Lucado was born on 11 January 1955 in San Angelo, Texas, United States of America. He is a Christian writer and a preacher at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas. Author website www.MaxLucado.com.
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“You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles, and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you.” -George Lucas
George Lucas is a movie director and producer.
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“Trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye, and it puts everything out of focus. Hold it at proper viewing distance, and it can be examined and classified. Throw it at your feet, and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway to eternity.” -Celia Luce
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“Show me a man who claims he is objective and I’ll show you a man with illusions.” -Henry R. Luce
Henry R. Luce was born in 1898. Henry R. Luce passed on in 1967.
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“A good criterion for measuring success in life is the number of people you have made happy.” -Robert J. Lumsden
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“The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.” -Charles Lamb
“’Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected.” -Charles Lamb
“We see the world not as it is but as we are.” -Charles Lamb
Charles Lamb, also known by the pseudonym Elia, was born on 10 February 1775 in Inner Temple, London, England. He was a clerk in the East India offices and later became an essayist and a poet. His works include “Tales from Shakespeare,” written in collaboration with his sister, and “Essays of Elia.” Charles Lamb passed on at 59 years of age on 27 December 1834 in Edmonton, London, England.
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“A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.” -Louis L’Amour
“If you wait for inspiration, you’re not a writer, but a waiter.” -Louis L’Amour
“One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has.” -Louis L’Amour
“There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices.” -Louis L’Amour
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” -Louis L’Amour
Louis L’Amour was born as Louis Dearborn LaMoore on 22 March 1908 in Jamestown, North Dakota, United States of America. He became a writer of Western novels. Louis L’Amour passed on at 80 years of age on 10 June 1988 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
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“An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail.” -Edwin Herbert Land: as quoted in “A Genius and His Magic Camera” in “LIFE” magazine (27 October 1972); also in “The Instant Image: Edwin Land and the Polaroid Experience (1978)” by Mark Olshaker, page 65
“Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.” -Edwin Herbert Land
“My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out in people resources they didn’t know they had.” -Edwin Herbert Land: as quoted in ‘A Talk with Polaroid’s Dr. Edwin Land’ published in “Forbes” (1 April 1975), Volume 115, Number, page 49
Edwin Herbert Land was born in 1909. Edwin Herbert Land passed on in 1991.
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“As the firefly only shines when on the wing, so it is with the human mind - when at rest, it darkens.” -Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“Few, save the poor, feel for the poor.” -Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.” -Letitia Elizabeth Landon
“Occupation is one great source of enjoyment. No man, properly occupied, was ever miserable.” -Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, also known by initials L. E. L., was born on 14 August 1802 in Chelsea, London, England. She became a poet and a novelist. Letitia Elizabeth Landon passed on at 36 years of age on 15 October 1838 in Cape Coast Castle, Gold Coast (now Ghana), Africa.
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“Levity is the soul of wit.” -Melville D. Landon
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“Something constructive comes from every defeat.” -Tom Landry
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“There will be times in life when impossibility is felt, but then there are dreams - and dreams allow us possibility.” -Jeffrey David Lang
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“Love is a gift. You can’t buy it, you can’t find it, someone has to give it to you. Learn to be receptive of that gift.” -Kurt Langner
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“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.” -Lucy Larcom
“If the world’s a veil of tears, smile till rainbows span it.” -Lucy Larcom
“Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.” -Lucy Larcom
Lucy Larcom was born on about 5 March 1824 in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became a teacher, a writer, and a poet. Lucy Larcom passed on at 69 years of age on 17 April 1893 in Beverly, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn’t ordered.” -Ring Lardner
“They gave each other a smile with a future in it.” -Ring Lardner
Ringgold Wilmer ‘Ring’ Lardner was born in 1885. He was an American writer and satirist. Ringgold Wilmer ‘Ring’ Lardner passed on in 1933.
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“Promise Yourself . . . To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.” -Christy Larson: “Promise Yourself”
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“A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.” -Doug Larson
“Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.” -Doug Larson
“Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.” -Doug Larson
“The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there’s only one other choice.” -Doug Larson
“The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.” -Doug Larson
“The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.” -Doug Larson
“To err is human; to admit it superhuman.” -Doug Larson
Doug Larson was born in 1902. He was an American journalist. Doug Larson passed on in 1981.
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“Your joy comes from what you give, not from what you accumulate.” -Frank Laubach
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“I never dreamt of success. I worked for it.” -Estée Lauder
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“It’s not what we have in our life, but who we have in our life that counts.” -J. M. Laurence
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“Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.” -Johann Kaspar Lavater
“Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all.” -Johann Kaspar Lavater: as quoted in “The Pocket Magazine of Classics and Polite Literature” (1818), volume 2
“Who gives a trifle meanly, is meaner than the trifle.” -Lavater
Johann Kaspar Lavater was born in 1741. He was a Swiss writer, Protestant Christian pastor, and the founder of physiognomics. Johann Kaspar Lavater passed on in 1801.
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“I am very fond of Sussex - it is so full of sky and wind and weather.” -D. H. Lawrence
“I got the blues thinking of the future, so I left off and made some marmalade. It’s amazing how it cheers one up to shred oranges and scrub the floor.” -D. H. Lawrence
“Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.” -D. H. Lawrence
David Herbert Lawrence, also known as D. H. Lawrence, was born on 11 September 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England. He was a novelist, a poet, a playwright, an essayist, a literary critic, and a painter. David Herbert Lawrence passed on at 44 years of age on 2 March 1930 in Vence, France.
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“If we must all agree, all work together, we’re no better than a machine. If an individual can’t work in solidarity with his fellows, it’s his duty to work alone. His duty and his right. We have been denying people that right. We’ve been saying, more and more often, you must work with the others, you must accept the rule of the majority. But any rule is tyranny. The duty of the individual is to accept no rule, to be the initiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive.” -Ursula K. Le Guin: “The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia” (May 1974)
“It is good to have an end to journey towards, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” -Ursula K. Le Guin: “The Left Hand of Darkness” (1969)
“To oppose something is to maintain it.” -Ursula K. Le Guin
“What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?” -Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin was born on 21 October 1929 in Berkeley, California, United States of America. She is a novelist, a short story writer, a poet, and an essayist. Author website http://www.ursulakleguin.com/.
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“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” -Barry Le Patner
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“It is the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.” -C. W. Leadbeater
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“What you need is an idea.” -William P. Lear
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“The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts. Think, act, and talk negatively, and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm, and you will attract positive results.” -Michael LeBoeuf
“Think, act, and talk with enthusiasm and you’ll attract positive results.” -Michael LeBoeuf: “Attitude is Everything”
Michael LeBoeuf was born on 27 February 1942 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America. He is a writer and a former professor of management at the University of New Orleans.
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“He who limps is still walking.” -Stanislaw J. Lec
“I prefer the sign ‘No Entry’ to the one that says ‘No Exit’.” -Stanislaw J. Lec
“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.” -Stanislaw J. Lec
“Youth is the gift of nature but age is a work of art.” -Stanislaw J. Lec
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec was born on 6 March 1909 in Lemberg, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Lviv, Ukraine). He became a writer, a poet, and an aphorist. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec passed on at 57 years of age on 7 May 1966 in Warsaw, Poland.
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“A goal is not always meant to be reached; it often serves simply as something to aim at.” -Bruce Lee
“Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I’m still learning, for learning is boundless.” -Bruce Lee: as quoted in John Little: “Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee’s Commentaries on the Martial Way” (1997), Part 6: ‘Beyond System - The Ultimate Source of Jeet Kune Do’
“Let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.” -Bruce Lee: “The Warrior Within: The Philosophies of Bruce Lee” (1996), page 126
“Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.” -Bruce Lee: as quoted in John Little, editor: “Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living” (2000), Part I: ‘On First Principles,’ page 2
“Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.” -Bruce Lee
“Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.” -Bruce Lee
“To be discouraged is to be defeated - it is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man. No man is defeated unless he is discouraged.” -Bruce Lee
“Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.” -Bruce Lee: as quoted in Bruce Thomas, author: “Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit” (1994), page 44
Bruce Lee is a pseudonym of Lee Jun-fan, who was born on 27 November 1940 in San Francisco, California, United States of America. He became a martial artist, a martial artist instructor, and an actor. Lee Jun-fan passed on at 32 years of age on 20 July 1973 in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.
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“Don’t be down on that you’re not up on.” -Harold B. Lee
“Don’t try to live too many days at a time.” -Harold B. Lee
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“A man who wishes to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” -Jack Lee
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“Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.” -Robert E. Lee
“You must be careful how you walk, and where you go, for there are those following you who will set their feet where yours are set.” -Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee was born in 1807. He was a military general in the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Robert E. Lee passed on in 1870.
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“Be mindful of your self-talk. It’s a conversation with the Universe.” -David James Lees
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“Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.” -John Lehman
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“Good words do more than hard speeches as the sunbeams without any noise will make the traveler cast off his cloak which all the blustering winds could not do but only make him bind it closer to him.” -Robert Leighton
“Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more than earthenware.” -Robert Leighton
“Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgement of the true nature of the human mind, not from sloth and stupidity of the most degenerate and vilest of men, but from the sentiments and fervent desire of the best and wisest of the species.” -Robert Leighton: “Theological Lectures,” No. 5, ‘Of the Immortality of the Soul,’ published in “Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations” (1922), page 514
Robert Leighton was born in 1611 in London, England. He became a minister and later bishop of Dunblane, archbishop of Glasgow, and principal of the University of Edinburgh (1653 - 1662). Robert Leighton passed on at about 73 years of age on 25 June 1684 in London, England.
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“If I’m not free to fail, I’m not free to take risks, and everything in life that’s worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.” -Madeleine L’Engle
Madeleine L’Engle Camp was born on 29 November 1918 in New York City, New York, United States of America. She became a novelist. She is known for books including “A Wrinkle in Time” (1962), “A Wind in the Door” (1973), and “Many Waters” (1986). Madeleine L’Engle Camp passed on at 88 years of age on 6 September 2007 in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States of America.
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“I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: ‘This could be interesting.” -Paddy Lennox (2009)
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“You can’t run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do.” -John Leo
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“The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space.” -Aleksei Leonov
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“Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.” -Doris Lessing
“Laughter is by definition healthy.” -Doris Lessing
“I’m always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common.” -Doris Lessing
“It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.” -Doris Lessing
Doris May Lessing, also known by the pseudonym Jane Somers, was born as Doris May Tayler on 22 October 1919 in Kermanshah, Iran. She lived on a farm in Rhodesia from 1924 to 1949, and then settled in England. She became novelist, a poet, a playwright, a librettist, a biographer, and a short story writer. Doris May Lessing passed on at 94 years of age on 17 November 2013 in London, England.
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“A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.” -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.” -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: as attributed in “Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association” (1907), volumes 46 and 47
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born on 22 January 1729 in Kamenz, Germany. He became a writer, a dramatist, a philosopher, a publicist, and an art critic. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing passed on at 52 years of age on 15 February 1781 in Brunswick, Germany.
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“You can fool all the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough.” -Joseph E. Levine
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“Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.” -George Henry Lewes
George Henry Lewes was born in 1817. He was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre. George Henry Lewes passed on in 1878.
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“Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself to others. It is because we are different that each of us is special. Don’t set your goals by what other people deem important, only know what is best for you.” -Ken Lewis
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“I ascended to the top of a cut bluff this morning, from whence I had a most delightful view of the country, the whole of which, except the valley formed by the Missouri, is void of timber or underbrush, exposing to the first glance of the spectator immense herds of Buffalo, Elk, Deer, and Antelopes feeding in one common and boundless pasture.” -Meriwether Lewis: in eastern Montana (22 April 1805)
Meriwether Lewis was born in 1774. He was an American explorer. Meriwether Lewis passed on in 1809.
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“‘The trouble with this country is,’ observed Herndon, ‘that there are too many people going about saying, ‘The trouble with this country is.’’” -Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis was born in 1885. He was an American novelist and playwright. Sinclair Lewis passed on in 1951.
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“The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.” -W. M. Lewis
William Mather Lewis was born on 24 March 1878 in Howell, Michigan, United States of America. He became a teacher, a university president, a politician, and a federal government official. William Mather Lewis passed on at 67 years of age on 11 November 1945 in Colebrook, Connecticut, United States of America.
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“Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they’re worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.” -Georg C. Lichtenberg
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was born in 1742. He was a German physicist and drama critic. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg passed on in 1799.
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“For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Only love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“The world has different owners at sunrise . . . Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat who never appears in daytime patrols the brick walls and a golden-tailed pheasant glints his way through the iris spears.” -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born in 1906. She was an American aviator and writer; author of “Gift from the Sea” (1955). She was married to aviator Charles Lindbergh. Anne Morrow Lindbergh passed on in 2001.
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“Don’t tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.” -James Ling
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“He who hesitates because he feels inferior is being surpassed by he who is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” -Henry Link
Henry Charles Link was born in 1889. He became a psychologist. His written works include, “The Return to Religion” (1936). Henry Charles Link passed on in 1952.
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“He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become as wise at sixty as he thought himself at twenty.” -Mary Wilson Little
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“It is not where you begin, it is where you end that counts.” -Faith Littlefield
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“I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose.” -David Livingstone
David Livingstone was born in 1813. He was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and an explorer in Africa. He was married to Mary Moffat. David Livingstone passed on in 1873.
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“Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.” -Livy
“In great straits and when hope is small the boldest counsels are the safest.” -Livy
“Woe to the vanquished.” -Livy
Titus Livius, also known as Livy, was born in 59 B.C.E. in Padua, Italy. He became a historian in ancient Rome. Titus Livius passed on in C.E. 17. In Padua, Italy.
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“A little of what you fancy does you good.” -Marie Lloyd
Marie Lloyd, also known as Bella Delmer, is a pseudonym of Matilda Alice Victoria Wood
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“The amount of litter in the street is proportional to the local rate of unemployment.” -David Lloyd-Jones
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“Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.” -John Locke
“I have always thought the actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.” -John Locke
John Locke was born on 29 August 1632 in Sommersetshire, England. He became a physician and a political and educational philosopher. John Locke passed on at 72 years of age on 28 October 1704 in High Laver, England.
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“The discussion of philosophy is over; it’s time for work to begin.” -Peter Loewer
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“To ensure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” -William Londen
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“What really matters is what you do with what you have.” -Shirley Lord
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“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.” -Sophia Loren
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.” -Sophia Loren
“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.” -Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren is a pseudonym of Sophia Sciccoloni, who was born in 1934. She is an Italian actress.
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“Every great story happened when someone decided not to give up.” -Spryte Loriano
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“If you can believe it, the mind can achieve it.” -Ronnie Lott
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“There is no right path. Only the one that allows you to sleep soundly and wake up excited.” -Jennifer Louden
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“To insure good health: eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life.” -William Louden
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“I choose not be what the world is. Rather, I choose to be what the world says I cannot be.” -Craig D. Lounsbrough
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“Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heartwarming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.” -Lawrence G. Lovasik
“Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.” -Lawrence G. Lovasik
Lawrence George Lovasik was born on 22 June 1913 in Tarentum, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He became a Catholic priest. Lawrence George Lovasik passed on at 72 years of age on 9 June 1986 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
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“A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.” -James Russell Lowell
“Aim high, you normally hit what you aim for. Not failure, but low aim, is a crime.” -James Russell Lowell
“Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim, is crime.” -James Russell Lowell
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.” -James Russell Lowell
“The cause is strong which has not a multitude, but one strong man behind it.” -James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell was born on 22 February 1819 in Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became an essayist, a poet, an editor, and a diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers. They often had conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside. He was the first editor of the “Atlantic Monthly” (1857 - 1861). James Russell Lowell passed on at 72 years of age on 12 August 1891 in Elmwood, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“The people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern.” -Max Lucado: as quoted in “Reader’s Digest” (March 1998)
Max Lucado was born on 11 January 1955 in San Angelo, Texas, United States of America. He is a Christian writer and a preacher at Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Texas. Author website www.MaxLucado.com.
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“You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks, jump over the hurdles, and break through the brick walls that are always going to be placed in front of you.” -George Lucas
George Lucas is a movie director and producer.
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“Trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye, and it puts everything out of focus. Hold it at proper viewing distance, and it can be examined and classified. Throw it at your feet, and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway to eternity.” -Celia Luce
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“Show me a man who claims he is objective and I’ll show you a man with illusions.” -Henry R. Luce
Henry R. Luce was born in 1898. Henry R. Luce passed on in 1967.
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“A good criterion for measuring success in life is the number of people you have made happy.” -Robert J. Lumsden
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“The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.” -Hamilton Wright Mabie
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“Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.” -Thomas Babington Macaulay: “History of England” (1849 - 1861), volume I, chapter 1
Thomas Babington Macaulay was born on 25 October 1800 in Leicestershire, England. He became a historian, a politician, a statesman, an essayist, and a poet. Thomas Babington Macaulay passed on at 59 years of age on 28 December 1859 in London, England.
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The smallest effort is not lost,
Each wavelet on the ocean tost
Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow;
Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow;
Each struggle lessens human woe.
-Charles Mackay: “Voices from the Crowd, and Town Lyrics” (1857): ‘The Old and the New’
Charles Mackay was born on 27 March 1814 in Perth, Scotland. He became a newspaper editor, a poet, a writer, an anthologist, a novelist, and a songwriter. He is known for his book “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” (1841). Charles Mackay passed on at 75 years of age on 24 December 1889 in London, England.
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“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.” -Harvey B. Mackay
“If you have no destination, you’ll never get there.” -Harvey B. Mackay
“Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.” -Harvey B. Mackay
“You don’t have to know everything, as long as you know people who know the things you don’t.” -Harvey B. Mackay
Harvey B. Mackay was born in 1932 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America. He is a syndicated columnist, writer, speaker, and businessman.
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“It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.” -James Mackintosh
James Mackintosh was born on 24 October 1765 in Aldourie, Inverness-shire, Scotland. He became a historian and a statesman. James Mackintosh passed on at 66 years of age on 30 May 1832 in London, England.
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“There’s only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.” -Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish was born on 7 May 1892 in Glencoe, Illinois, United States of America. He was married to Ada Hitchcock in 1916. He became a poet, a playwright, an essayist, and a lawyer. He lived in Europe (1923 - 1928), was an editor of “Fortune Magazine” (1929 - 1938) in New York, and a professor at Harvard University (1949 - 1962). Archibald MacLeish passed on at 89 years of age on 20 April 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“When the answer to all questions is yes, you enter a new world, a world of action, possibility, and adventure.” -Patricia Ryan Madson
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Better guide the young than reclaim them when old
For the voice of true wisdom is calling
To rescue the fallen is good but ’tis best
To prevent other people from falling
Better close up the source of temptation and crime
Than deliver from dungeon or gallery
Better put a strong fence round the top of the cliff
Than an ambulance down in the valley.
-Joseph Malins
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“Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.” -Maxwell Maltz
“We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.” -Maxwell Maltz
Maxwell Maltz was born on 10 March 1899 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States of America. He became a cosmetic surgeon and a writer. He is known as the author of “Psycho-Cybernetics” (1960). Maxwell Maltz passed on at 76 years of age on 7 April 1975.
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“Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.” -Benoit Mandelbrot
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“You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time.” -Horace Mann
Horace Mann was born on 4 May 1796 in Franklin, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a lawyer and an educator. Horace Mann passed on at 63 years of age on 2 August 1859 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States of America.
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“No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.” -Thomas Mann
“Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.” -Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas ‘Thomas’ Mann was born in 1875. He was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, and essayist. When World War II broke out in 1939, he immigrated to the United States of America, and then located to Switzerland in 1952. Paul Thomas ‘Thomas’ Mann passed on in 1955.
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“How would your life be different if . . . You stopped focusing on what you didn’t want and started focusing on what you do want? Let today be the day . . . You establish a clear intent, make a plan, and take actions towards your intent.” -Steve Maraboli (born 1975): “Life, the Truth, and Being Free” (2010), page 31
“I’ve learned that if someone threatens my peace of mind, self-respect, or self-worth . . . I must walk away. I owe it to myself . . . I owe it to my future.” -Steve Maraboli
“It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” -Steve Maraboli
“Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.” -Steve Maraboli
“Never confuse someone else’s inability to do something with its inability to be done.” -Steve Maraboli (born 1975): “Life, the Truth, and Being Free” (2010), page 16
“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” -Steve Maraboli: “Life, the Truth, and Being Free” (1999)
Steve Maraboli was born on 18 April 1975. He is a professional speaker and a writer. Website https://stevemaraboli.net/.
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“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?” -Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceau was born in 1923.
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“Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.” -Stanley Marcus
Stanley Marcus was born in 1905. He became a chief executive officer of Neiman Marcus. Stanley Marcus passed on in 2002.
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“It is not what you were, it’s what you are today.” -David Marion
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There is a destiny that makes us brothers,
None goes his way alone;
All that we send into the lives of others,
Comes back into our own.
-Edwin Markham: “A Creed” (1900)
Edwin Markham was born on 23 April 1852 in Oregon City, Oregon, United States of America. He became a poet and a lecturer. Edwin Markham passed on at 87 years of age on 7 March 1940 in Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.” -Peter Marshall
“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.” -Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall was born in 1902. He was a Scottish-born American preacher, a writer, and a chaplain of the United States Senate. Peter Marshall passed on in 1949.
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“There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Believe that you can do it. The world will tell you that you can’t. Yet in your belief you’ll find the strength, you’ll find the ability to do it anyway.” -Ralph Marston
“You don’t need anyone else’s permission to be happy. Your life is magnificent not because someone says it is, but because you choose to see it as such.” -Ralph Marston
“You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.” -Ralph Marston
Ralph Seymour Marston, Junior was born on 18 January 1955. He is an American writer. Author website https://greatday.com/.
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Defer not joys thou mayst not win from fate:
Judge only what is past to be thine own.
Cares with a linked chain of sorrows wait.
Mirth tarries not; but soon on wings is flown -
With both hands hold it - clasped in full embrace,
Still from thy heart it oft will glide away!
To say, “I mean to live” is folly’s place:
Tomorrow’s life comes late; live, then, today.
-Martial
“Each day provides its own gifts.” -Martial
“Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.” -Martial
Marcus Valerius Martialis, also known simply as Martial, was born in March in a year between C.E. 38 and C.E. 41 in Augusta Bilbilis (now Calatayud, Spain). He became a Roman poet, epigrammatist, and a satirist. He is known for his twelve books of epigrams, or short witty poems, published in Rome between C.E. 86 and C.E. 103. He wrote 1,561 epigrams, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets. Marcus Valerius Martialis passed on sometime between C.E. 102 and C.E. 104 in Rome.
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“Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.” -Miss Manners: “Miss Manner’s Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior” (1982)
“Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you’re a hermit on a mountain, you don’t have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you’ve got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.” -Miss Manners
Judith Martin, also known by the pseudonym Miss Manners, was born as Judith Perlman on 13 September 1938 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America. She became a newspaper columnist and an etiquette proponent.
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“Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.” -Theodore Martin
Theodore Martin was born in 1816. He was a Scottish poet, biographer, and translator. Theodore Martin passed on in 1909.
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“There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.” -James Martineau
James Martineau was born on 21 April 1805 in Norwich, England. James Martineau passed on at 94 years of age on 11 January 1900 in London, England.
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“The great lesson . . . is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s back yard.” -Abraham Maslow
“There are no perfect human beings. Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers . . . even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.” -Abraham Maslow
Abraham Harold Maslow was born on 1 April 1908 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States of America. He became a psychologist and a professor of psychology, and is best known for creating ‘Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs,’ a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority. He stressed the importance of focusing on the positive qualities in people, as opposed to treating them as a ‘bag of symptoms.’ Abraham Harold Maslow passed on at 62 years of age on 8 June 1970 in Menlo Park, California, United States of America.
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“As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.” -John Mason
John Mason was born in 1706. John Mason passed on in 1773.
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“The difficulties, hardships, and trials of life, the obstacles one encounters on the road to fortune, are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance. Peril is the element in which power is developed.” -William Mathews
William Mathews was born in 1818. William Mathews passed on in 1909.
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“Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.” -W. Somerset Maugham
“There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.” -W. Somerset Maugham
“Whatever anguish she suffered she concealed. She saw shrewdly that the world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.” -W. Somerset Maugham: “The Moon and Sixpence” (1919), Chapter 16
William Somerset Maugham, also known as W. Somerset Maugham, was born on 25 January 1874 at the United Kingdom’s embassy in Paris, France. He was married to Syrie Wellcome in 1917. He studied to be a physician, but after the great success of his first novel, “Liza of Lambeth” (1897), he decided to become a novelist, a short-story writer, and a playwright. He spent the next 65 years as a novelist, a dramatist (playwright), and a short story writer. William Somerset Maugham passed on at 91 years of age on 16 December 1965 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
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“He who wants to do everything will never do anything.” -André Maurois
“Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.” -André Maurois
André Maurois was born as Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog, who was born on 26 July 1885 in Elbeuf, France. He became a French writer. André Maurois passed on at 82 years of age on 9 October 1967 in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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“Look upon the sunny side of each word and thought, and you shall be satisfied, you shall lack for naught.” -Julia Harris May: “The Sunny Side”
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“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” -Foster C. McClellan
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The cricket’s gone; we only hear machines
In erg and atom they exact their pay.
And life is largely lived on silver screens.
-David McCord
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“People don’t ever seem to relate that doing what’s right is no guarantee against misfortune.” -William McFee: “Casuals of the Sea” (1916)
William McFee was born in 1881. He was an English writer of tales of the sea. William McFee passed on in 1966.
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“If you want good things to happen in your life, you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quit allowing negative and cynical thinking to get in the way of the good life you deserve.” -Bryant McGill
“The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars, and the selfish hide in high places.” -Bryant McGill
Bryant H. McGill was born in 1969.
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“Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.” -Alan Loy McGinnis
“Nearly every one of us is starving to be appreciated, and, when someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way.” -Alan Loy McGinnis: “Bringing Out the Best in People”
“People never get to laugh as much as they’d like, or have as much fun as they want. If you can construct your class, your team, or your committee so that laughter brakes out frequently, you’ll have people clamoring to join your group.” -Alan Loy McGinnis: “Bringing Out the Best in People”
“There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed.” -Alan Loy McGinnis
Alan Loy McGinnis was born on 10 November 1933 in Friendswood, Texas, United States of America. He was a writer, a speaker, a Christian family therapist, and the found of the Valley Counseling Center in Glendale, California. Alan Loy McGinnis passed on at 71 years of age on 9 January 2005 in Glendale, California, United States of America.
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“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.” -Tim McGraw
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“Joy is increased by spreading it to others.” -Robert Murray M’Cheyne: letter (27 June 1839)
Robert Murray M’Cheyne, sometimes spelled McCheyne, was born on 21 May 1813 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He became a poet and a minister (1835 - 1843) in the Church of Scotland. Robert Murray M’Cheyne passed on at 29 years of age on 25 March 1843 in Dundee, Scotland.
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“The Lord’s Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.” -David McIntosh
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“Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - ‘If I had my life to live over, I’d do it all the same.’” -Joan McIntosh
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“No other success can compensate for failure in the home.” -David O. McKay
David Oman McKay was born on 8 September 1873 in Huntsville, Utah, United States of America. He became a religious leader and an educator who served as the ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1951 - 1970). David Oman McKay passed on at 96 years of age on 18 January 1970 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
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“No one really listens to anyone else and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.” -Mignon McLaughlin
“‘Pull yourself together’ is seldom said to anyone who can.” -Mignon McLaughlin: “The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook” (1981)
Mignon McLaughlin was born on 6 June 1913 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. She became a journalist, a short story writer, and an aphorist. Mignon McLaughlin passed on at 70 years of age on 20 December 1983 in Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America.
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“You can be a rooster one day and a feather duster the next.” -Frank McManus: as quoted in the “Sydney Morning Herald” (28 December 1974), commenting on politics
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“After you’ve heard two eyewitnesses of a motor accident, you begin to worry about history.” -John McNab
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“It’s your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.” -Peter McWilliams
“Learn to ask for what you want . . . The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for - which is precisely where you were before you asked.” -Peter McWilliams
Peter Alexander McWilliams was born on 5 August 1949 in Detroit, Michigan, United States of America. He became a writer of self-help books, a poet, and a photographer. Peter Alexander McWilliams passed on at 50 years of age on 14 June 2000 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. Website: http://www.PeterMcWilliams.org.
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“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.” -Margaret Mead
“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to his or her fellow human beings.” -Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead was born on 16 December 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She became an anthropologist. Margaret Mead passed on at 76 years of age on 15 November 1978 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.” -Jayne Meadows
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If you don’t like life, it’s the way you’re livin’
A little less takin’, a bit more givin’;
A little less hatin’, a little more lovin’;
A little more helpin’, not so much shovin’;
A little more smilin’, not so much strife,
And soon you will be in love with life.
-J. W. T. Meehan
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“He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.” -Menander of Athens
“The man who runs may fight again.” -Menander of Athens: “Monostikoi”
Menander of Athens was born in 342 B.C.E. in Kifissia, Athens, Greece. He was a dramatist of ancient Greece. Menander of Athens passed on at about 51 years of age in 291 B.C.E. in Piraeus, Athens, Greece.
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“Don’t do what should not be done, and don’t desire what should not be desired. Abide by this one precept, and everything else will follow.” -Mencius
“The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.” -Mencius
Mencius, born Mèng kē or Mengzi and also known as Meng-tse, was born in about 372 B.C.E. He was a Chinese philosopher. Mencius passed on in about 289 B.C.E.
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“It is infinitely more exciting to live a life of catastrophic failures than a life of could-haves, should-haves and would-haves.” -M. H. Meng
Moh Hon Meng.
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“What’s done to children, they will do to society.” -Karl Menninger
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“A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.” -Robert G. Menzies
Robert G. Menzies was born in 1894. Robert G. Menzies passed on in 1978.
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“You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.” -Angela Merici
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“Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.” -Thomas Merton
“The biggest human temptation is . . . to settle for too little.” -Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton, also known as Father Louis, was born on 31 January 1915 in Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, France. He became a writer, a poet, a priest, and a Catholic Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, United States of America. He is known for the book, “Seven Storey Mountain” (1948). In 1949, he became an ordained priest and was given the name Father Louis. Thomas Merton passed on at 53 years of age on 10 December 1968 in Samut Prakan, Thailand.
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“The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.” -Reinhold Messner
Reinhold Messner was born on 17 September 1944 in Brixen, Italy. He is an alpinest, or a mountaineer who does difficult climbs.
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“All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.” -John Stuart Mill
“His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape.” -John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill was born on 20 May 1806 in Pentonville, London, England. He became a philosopher, a political economist, and a civil servant. John Stuart Mill passed on at 66 years of age on 8 May 1873 in Avignon, France.
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“If you analyze anything, you destroy it.” -Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller was born on 17 October 1915 in Harlem, New York City, New York, United States of America. He became a playwright, a novelist, a short story writer, and an essayist. Among his plays are “All My Sons,” “The Crucible,” and “A View from the Bridge.” He also wrote the screenplay for the film, “The Misfits.” Arthur Asher Miller passed on at 89 years of age on 10 February 2005 in Roxbury, Connecticut, United States of America.
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“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.” -Henry Miller
“One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.” -Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller was born on 26 December 1891 in Yorkville, New York City, New York, United States of America. He became an essayist, a travel memoirist, a literary critic, a watercolor painter, and a novelist. His works include the books, “Tropic of Cancer” and “Tropic of Capricorn.” He lived in Europe from 1930 to 1940. Henry Valentine Miller passed on at 88 years of age on 7 June 1980 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
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“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” -John Homer Miller
John Homer Miller was born in 1839. John Homer Miller passed on in 1913.
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“If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don’t; then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.” -Matt D. Miller
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“Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.” -Merle Miller
Merle Miller was born on 17 May 1919 in Montour, Iowa, United States of America. He became a writer. Merle Miller passed on at 67 years of age on 10 June 1986 in Danbury, Connecticut, United States of America.
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“They also serve who only stand and wait.” -John Milton
John Milton was born on 9 December 1608 in Bread Street, London, England. He became a poet, a pamphleteer, and a civil servant. He went blind in 1652, and wrote his epic blank verse poem, “Paradise Lost” in 1667. John Milton passed on at 65 years of age on 8 November 1674 in Bunhill Row, London, England.
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“Specialists get paid well, while those who know a little about many things make good conversation at parties.” -Mark Minervini
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“Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the ‘best’ in your chosen field, whatever it is.” -Donald Grant Mitchell
Donald Grant Mitchell was born in 1822. He was an American writer. Donald Grant Mitchell passed on in 1908.
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Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I’ve looked at love that way.
-Joni Mitchell “Both Sides Now” (1969) song
I’ve looked at life from both sides now,
From up and down, and still somehow,
It’s life’s illusions I recall . . .
I really don’t know life at all.
-Joni Mitchell: “Both Sides Now” (1969) song
Roberta Joan Anderson ‘Joni’ Mitchell.
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“It’s not what happens to you; it’s what you do about it that makes the difference.” -W. Mitchell
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“Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.” -Lakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Mittal is an Indian-born steel magnate.
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“It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.” -Moliere: “Le Misanthrope” (1666), Act V, Scene iv
“It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.” -Molière
“Things are only worth what you make them worth.” -Molière
Molière is a pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, who was born on 15 January 1622 in Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris, France. He became a playwright, an actor, a director, and a poet. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin passed on at 51 years of age on 17 February 1673 in Rue de Richelieu, Paris, France.
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“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” -Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude ‘Claude’ Monet was born in 1840. The term “Impressionism” is derived from the title of his painting, “Impression, soleil levant,” which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris. Oscar-Claude ‘Claude’ Monet passed on in 1926.
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“Fight the good fight with all thy might.” -J. S. B. Monsell
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“The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.” -Thomas S. Monson
Thomas Spencer Monson was born on 21 August 1927 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America. He became a bishop and the sixteenth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Thomas Spencer Monson passed on at 90 years of age on 2 January 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
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“I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress.” -Elizabeth Montagu
Elizabeth Montagu was born as Elizabeth Robinson on 2 October 1718 in Yorkshire, England. Elizabeth Montagu passed on at 77 years of age on 25 August 1800 in London, England.
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“A good example is far better than a good precept.” -Dwight L. Moody
“The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap.” -Dwight L. Moody
“True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our inertia, laziness, and boredom.” -Dwight L. Moody
Dwight Lyman Moody, also known as D. L. Moody, was born on 5 February 1837 in Northfield, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a Christian evangelist and a publisher, connected with the Holiness Movement. He is known as the founder of the Moody Church, Northfield School, and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts, as well as the Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers. Dwight Lyman Moody passed on at 62 years of age on 22 December 1899 in Northfield, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.” -George Moore
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” -George Moore
George Augustus Moore was born in on 24 February 1852. He was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist, and dramatist. George Augustus Moore passed on at 80 years of age on 21 January 1933.
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“I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.” -Henry Moore
“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.” -Henry Moore
Henry Moor was born in 1898. He was an English sculptor. Henry Moore passed on in 1986.
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“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.” -Marianne Craig Moore
“The heart that gives, gathers.” -Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore was born on 15 November 1887 in Kirkwood, Missouri, United States of America. Marianne Craig Moore passed on at 84 years of age on 5 February 1972 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” -Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore was born on 29 December 1937. She was an American actress. Mary Tylor Moore passed on at 79 years of age on 25 January 2017.
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“How goodness heightens beauty!” -Hannah More
“We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.” -Hannah More
Hannah More was born on 2 February 1745. She was an English religious writer and social reformer. Hannah More passed on at 88 years of age on 7 September 1833.
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“The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.” -Morell
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“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” -J. P. Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan, Senior, also known as J. P. Morgan, was born on 17 April 1837 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America. He became a banker, a financier, an art collector, and a philanthropist. In 1892, he arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric Company, to form General Electric. After financing the creation of the Federal Steel Company, he merged it in 1901 with the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses, including Consolidated Steel and Wire Company, to form the United States Steel Corporation. John Pierpont Morgan, Senior passed on at 75 years of age on 31 March 1913 in Rome, Italy.
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“In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.” -Christopher Morley
“Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you’re not really interested in order to get where you’re going.” -Christopher Morley
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.” -Christopher Morley
“There is only one rule for being a good talker: learn to listen.” -Christopher Morley
Christopher Darlington Morley was born on 5 May 1890 in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He became a journalist, a novelist, an essayist, a poet, a lecturer, and a playwright. He was a founder and long-time contributing editor of the “Saturday Review of Literature.” Christopher Darlington Morley passed on at 66 years of age on 28 March 1957 in Roslyn, New York, United States of America.
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“Life’s a balancing act. You have multiple roles and goals, and you can do it all - just not all at once.” -Denise Morrison
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“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” -Dwight Morrow: as quoted in the “San Francisco News” (1 June 1949) (similar quotation attributed to Milton Friedman)
Dwight Whitney Morrow was born on 11 January 1873 in Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America. He became a lawyer, a banker, and a diplomat. Dwight Whitney Morrow passed on at 58 years of age on 5 October 1931 in Englewood, New Jersey, United States of America.
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“You are destined to fly, but that cocoon has to go.” -Nelle Morton
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“You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.” -Kate Morton
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“We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.” -Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mott was born in 1793. Lucretia Mott passed on in 1880.
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“You only get paid for done.” -Dax Moy: “The Magic Hundred” (14 September 2008) as published at http://magichundred.blogspot.com/2008/09/you-only-get-rewards-for-done.html
Dax Moy was born on 20 September 1970. He is a British physical fitness trainer.
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“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence, nor imagination, nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, full name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfangus Theophilus Mozart, was born on 27 January 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He became a musician and a music composer. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart passed on at 35 years of age on 5 December 1791 in Vienna, Austria.
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“You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big, bold, righteous, and eternal.” -Barry Munro
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“Men will spend their health getting wealth; then, gladly pay all they have earned to get health back.” -Mike Murdock
Michael Dean ‘Mike’ Murdock was born on 18 April 1946 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States of America. He is a proponent of prosperity theology, pastor of the Wisdom Center ministry in Fort Worth, Texas, and host of the “Wisdom Keys with Mike Murdock” television program.
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“No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.” -Francois Muriac
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“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” -Elon Musk
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“Every life has a purpose. We need to let go of the past. Live in the present. Do not waste today worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Embrace your true spirit, embrace and listen to grace, and you will be transformed in the moment. Do not fixate on what you want but give thanks for what you have.” -Caroline Myss
Caroline Myss was born in 1952.
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“The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.” -Hamilton Wright Mabie
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“Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.” -Thomas Babington Macaulay: “History of England” (1849 - 1861), volume I, chapter 1
Thomas Babington Macaulay was born on 25 October 1800 in Leicestershire, England. He became a historian, a politician, a statesman, an essayist, and a poet. Thomas Babington Macaulay passed on at 59 years of age on 28 December 1859 in London, England.
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The smallest effort is not lost,
Each wavelet on the ocean tost
Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow;
Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow;
Each struggle lessens human woe.
-Charles Mackay: “Voices from the Crowd, and Town Lyrics” (1857): ‘The Old and the New’
Charles Mackay was born on 27 March 1814 in Perth, Scotland. He became a newspaper editor, a poet, a writer, an anthologist, a novelist, and a songwriter. He is known for his book “Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds” (1841). Charles Mackay passed on at 75 years of age on 24 December 1889 in London, England.
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“Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.” -Harvey B. Mackay
“If you have no destination, you’ll never get there.” -Harvey B. Mackay
“Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.” -Harvey B. Mackay
“You don’t have to know everything, as long as you know people who know the things you don’t.” -Harvey B. Mackay
Harvey B. Mackay was born in 1932 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America. He is a syndicated columnist, writer, speaker, and businessman.
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“It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.” -James Mackintosh
James Mackintosh was born on 24 October 1765 in Aldourie, Inverness-shire, Scotland. He became a historian and a statesman. James Mackintosh passed on at 66 years of age on 30 May 1832 in London, England.
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“There’s only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.” -Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish was born on 7 May 1892 in Glencoe, Illinois, United States of America. He was married to Ada Hitchcock in 1916. He became a poet, a playwright, an essayist, and a lawyer. He lived in Europe (1923 - 1928), was an editor of “Fortune Magazine” (1929 - 1938) in New York, and a professor at Harvard University (1949 - 1962). Archibald MacLeish passed on at 89 years of age on 20 April 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“When the answer to all questions is yes, you enter a new world, a world of action, possibility, and adventure.” -Patricia Ryan Madson
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Better guide the young than reclaim them when old
For the voice of true wisdom is calling
To rescue the fallen is good but ’tis best
To prevent other people from falling
Better close up the source of temptation and crime
Than deliver from dungeon or gallery
Better put a strong fence round the top of the cliff
Than an ambulance down in the valley.
-Joseph Malins
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“Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.” -Maxwell Maltz
“We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.” -Maxwell Maltz
Maxwell Maltz was born on 10 March 1899 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States of America. He became a cosmetic surgeon and a writer. He is known as the author of “Psycho-Cybernetics” (1960). Maxwell Maltz passed on at 76 years of age on 7 April 1975.
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“Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.” -Benoit Mandelbrot
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“You may as well borrow a person’s money as his time.” -Horace Mann
Horace Mann was born on 4 May 1796 in Franklin, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a lawyer and an educator. Horace Mann passed on at 63 years of age on 2 August 1859 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, United States of America.
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“No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.” -Thomas Mann
“Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.” -Thomas Mann
Paul Thomas ‘Thomas’ Mann was born in 1875. He was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, and essayist. When World War II broke out in 1939, he immigrated to the United States of America, and then located to Switzerland in 1952. Paul Thomas ‘Thomas’ Mann passed on in 1955.
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“How would your life be different if . . . You stopped focusing on what you didn’t want and started focusing on what you do want? Let today be the day . . . You establish a clear intent, make a plan, and take actions towards your intent.” -Steve Maraboli (born 1975): “Life, the Truth, and Being Free” (2010), page 31
“I’ve learned that if someone threatens my peace of mind, self-respect, or self-worth . . . I must walk away. I owe it to myself . . . I owe it to my future.” -Steve Maraboli
“It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” -Steve Maraboli
“Live your truth. Express your love. Share your enthusiasm. Take action towards your dreams. Walk your talk. Dance and sing to your music. Embrace your blessings. Make today worth remembering.” -Steve Maraboli
“Never confuse someone else’s inability to do something with its inability to be done.” -Steve Maraboli (born 1975): “Life, the Truth, and Being Free” (2010), page 16
“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” -Steve Maraboli: “Life, the Truth, and Being Free” (1999)
Steve Maraboli was born on 18 April 1975. He is a professional speaker and a writer. Website https://stevemaraboli.net/.
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“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?” -Marcel Marceau
Marcel Marceau was born in 1923.
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“Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.” -Stanley Marcus
Stanley Marcus was born in 1905. He became a chief executive officer of Neiman Marcus. Stanley Marcus passed on in 2002.
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“It is not what you were, it’s what you are today.” -David Marion
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There is a destiny that makes us brothers,
None goes his way alone;
All that we send into the lives of others,
Comes back into our own.
-Edwin Markham: “A Creed” (1900)
Edwin Markham was born on 23 April 1852 in Oregon City, Oregon, United States of America. He became a poet and a lecturer. Edwin Markham passed on at 87 years of age on 7 March 1940 in Staten Island, New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.” -Peter Marshall
“Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.” -Peter Marshall
Peter Marshall was born in 1902. He was a Scottish-born American preacher, a writer, and a chaplain of the United States Senate. Peter Marshall passed on in 1949.
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“There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Believe that you can do it. The world will tell you that you can’t. Yet in your belief you’ll find the strength, you’ll find the ability to do it anyway.” -Ralph Marston
“You don’t need anyone else’s permission to be happy. Your life is magnificent not because someone says it is, but because you choose to see it as such.” -Ralph Marston
“You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.” -Ralph Marston
Ralph Seymour Marston, Junior was born on 18 January 1955. He is an American writer. Author website https://greatday.com/.
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Defer not joys thou mayst not win from fate:
Judge only what is past to be thine own.
Cares with a linked chain of sorrows wait.
Mirth tarries not; but soon on wings is flown -
With both hands hold it - clasped in full embrace,
Still from thy heart it oft will glide away!
To say, “I mean to live” is folly’s place:
Tomorrow’s life comes late; live, then, today.
-Martial
“Each day provides its own gifts.” -Martial
“Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well.” -Martial
Marcus Valerius Martialis, also known simply as Martial, was born in March in a year between C.E. 38 and C.E. 41 in Augusta Bilbilis (now Calatayud, Spain). He became a Roman poet, epigrammatist, and a satirist. He is known for his twelve books of epigrams, or short witty poems, published in Rome between C.E. 86 and C.E. 103. He wrote 1,561 epigrams, of which 1,235 are in elegiac couplets. Marcus Valerius Martialis passed on sometime between C.E. 102 and C.E. 104 in Rome.
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“Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.” -Miss Manners: “Miss Manner’s Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior” (1982)
“Etiquette is all human social behavior. If you’re a hermit on a mountain, you don’t have to worry about etiquette; if somebody comes up the mountain, then you’ve got a problem. It matters because we want to live in reasonably harmonious communities.” -Miss Manners
Judith Martin, also known by the pseudonym Miss Manners, was born as Judith Perlman on 13 September 1938 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America. She became a newspaper columnist and an etiquette proponent.
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“Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.” -Theodore Martin
Theodore Martin was born in 1816. He was a Scottish poet, biographer, and translator. Theodore Martin passed on in 1909.
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“There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.” -James Martineau
James Martineau was born on 21 April 1805 in Norwich, England. James Martineau passed on at 94 years of age on 11 January 1900 in London, England.
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“The great lesson . . . is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s back yard.” -Abraham Maslow
“There are no perfect human beings. Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers . . . even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.” -Abraham Maslow
Abraham Harold Maslow was born on 1 April 1908 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States of America. He became a psychologist and a professor of psychology, and is best known for creating ‘Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs,’ a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority. He stressed the importance of focusing on the positive qualities in people, as opposed to treating them as a ‘bag of symptoms.’ Abraham Harold Maslow passed on at 62 years of age on 8 June 1970 in Menlo Park, California, United States of America.
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“As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.” -John Mason
John Mason was born in 1706. John Mason passed on in 1773.
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“The difficulties, hardships, and trials of life, the obstacles one encounters on the road to fortune, are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance. Peril is the element in which power is developed.” -William Mathews
William Mathews was born in 1818. William Mathews passed on in 1909.
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“Common sense and good nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.” -W. Somerset Maugham
“There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.” -W. Somerset Maugham
“Whatever anguish she suffered she concealed. She saw shrewdly that the world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.” -W. Somerset Maugham: “The Moon and Sixpence” (1919), Chapter 16
William Somerset Maugham, also known as W. Somerset Maugham, was born on 25 January 1874 at the United Kingdom’s embassy in Paris, France. He was married to Syrie Wellcome in 1917. He studied to be a physician, but after the great success of his first novel, “Liza of Lambeth” (1897), he decided to become a novelist, a short-story writer, and a playwright. He spent the next 65 years as a novelist, a dramatist (playwright), and a short story writer. William Somerset Maugham passed on at 91 years of age on 16 December 1965 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
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“He who wants to do everything will never do anything.” -André Maurois
“Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.” -André Maurois
André Maurois was born as Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog, who was born on 26 July 1885 in Elbeuf, France. He became a French writer. André Maurois passed on at 82 years of age on 9 October 1967 in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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“Look upon the sunny side of each word and thought, and you shall be satisfied, you shall lack for naught.” -Julia Harris May: “The Sunny Side”
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“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” -Foster C. McClellan
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The cricket’s gone; we only hear machines
In erg and atom they exact their pay.
And life is largely lived on silver screens.
-David McCord
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“People don’t ever seem to relate that doing what’s right is no guarantee against misfortune.” -William McFee: “Casuals of the Sea” (1916)
William McFee was born in 1881. He was an English writer of tales of the sea. William McFee passed on in 1966.
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“If you want good things to happen in your life, you first have to believe good things are possible for yourself. Quit allowing negative and cynical thinking to get in the way of the good life you deserve.” -Bryant McGill
“The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars, and the selfish hide in high places.” -Bryant McGill
Bryant H. McGill was born in 1969.
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“Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.” -Alan Loy McGinnis
“Nearly every one of us is starving to be appreciated, and, when someone comes along who genuinely thanks us, we will follow that person a very long way.” -Alan Loy McGinnis: “Bringing Out the Best in People”
“People never get to laugh as much as they’d like, or have as much fun as they want. If you can construct your class, your team, or your committee so that laughter brakes out frequently, you’ll have people clamoring to join your group.” -Alan Loy McGinnis: “Bringing Out the Best in People”
“There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed.” -Alan Loy McGinnis
Alan Loy McGinnis was born on 10 November 1933 in Friendswood, Texas, United States of America. He was a writer, a speaker, a Christian family therapist, and the found of the Valley Counseling Center in Glendale, California. Alan Loy McGinnis passed on at 71 years of age on 9 January 2005 in Glendale, California, United States of America.
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“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.” -Tim McGraw
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“Joy is increased by spreading it to others.” -Robert Murray M’Cheyne: letter (27 June 1839)
Robert Murray M’Cheyne, sometimes spelled McCheyne, was born on 21 May 1813 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He became a poet and a minister (1835 - 1843) in the Church of Scotland. Robert Murray M’Cheyne passed on at 29 years of age on 25 March 1843 in Dundee, Scotland.
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“The Lord’s Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words.” -David McIntosh
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“Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions - ‘If I had my life to live over, I’d do it all the same.’” -Joan McIntosh
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“No other success can compensate for failure in the home.” -David O. McKay
David Oman McKay was born on 8 September 1873 in Huntsville, Utah, United States of America. He became a religious leader and an educator who served as the ninth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1951 - 1970). David Oman McKay passed on at 96 years of age on 18 January 1970 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
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“No one really listens to anyone else and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.” -Mignon McLaughlin
“‘Pull yourself together’ is seldom said to anyone who can.” -Mignon McLaughlin: “The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook” (1981)
Mignon McLaughlin was born on 6 June 1913 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. She became a journalist, a short story writer, and an aphorist. Mignon McLaughlin passed on at 70 years of age on 20 December 1983 in Coral Gables, Florida, United States of America.
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“You can be a rooster one day and a feather duster the next.” -Frank McManus: as quoted in the “Sydney Morning Herald” (28 December 1974), commenting on politics
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“After you’ve heard two eyewitnesses of a motor accident, you begin to worry about history.” -John McNab
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“It’s your life. Live it with people who are alive. It tends to be contagious.” -Peter McWilliams
“Learn to ask for what you want . . . The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for - which is precisely where you were before you asked.” -Peter McWilliams
Peter Alexander McWilliams was born on 5 August 1949 in Detroit, Michigan, United States of America. He became a writer of self-help books, a poet, and a photographer. Peter Alexander McWilliams passed on at 50 years of age on 14 June 2000 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. Website: http://www.PeterMcWilliams.org.
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“I learned the value of hard work by working hard.” -Margaret Mead
“I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to his or her fellow human beings.” -Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead was born on 16 December 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She became an anthropologist. Margaret Mead passed on at 76 years of age on 15 November 1978 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.” -Jayne Meadows
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If you don’t like life, it’s the way you’re livin’
A little less takin’, a bit more givin’;
A little less hatin’, a little more lovin’;
A little more helpin’, not so much shovin’;
A little more smilin’, not so much strife,
And soon you will be in love with life.
-J. W. T. Meehan
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“He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.” -Menander of Athens
“The man who runs may fight again.” -Menander of Athens: “Monostikoi”
Menander of Athens was born in 342 B.C.E. in Kifissia, Athens, Greece. He was a dramatist of ancient Greece. Menander of Athens passed on at about 51 years of age in 291 B.C.E. in Piraeus, Athens, Greece.
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“Don’t do what should not be done, and don’t desire what should not be desired. Abide by this one precept, and everything else will follow.” -Mencius
“The great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart.” -Mencius
Mencius, born Mèng kē or Mengzi and also known as Meng-tse, was born in about 372 B.C.E. He was a Chinese philosopher. Mencius passed on in about 289 B.C.E.
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“It is infinitely more exciting to live a life of catastrophic failures than a life of could-haves, should-haves and would-haves.” -M. H. Meng
Moh Hon Meng.
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“What’s done to children, they will do to society.” -Karl Menninger
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“A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.” -Robert G. Menzies
Robert G. Menzies was born in 1894. Robert G. Menzies passed on in 1978.
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“You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke, which should never be used except in necessity.” -Angela Merici
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“Not all of us are called to be hermits, but all of us need enough silence and solitude in our lives to enable the deeper voice of our own self to be heard at least occasionally.” -Thomas Merton
“The biggest human temptation is . . . to settle for too little.” -Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton, also known as Father Louis, was born on 31 January 1915 in Prades, Pyrénées-Orientales, France. He became a writer, a poet, a priest, and a Catholic Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, United States of America. He is known for the book, “Seven Storey Mountain” (1948). In 1949, he became an ordained priest and was given the name Father Louis. Thomas Merton passed on at 53 years of age on 10 December 1968 in Samut Prakan, Thailand.
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“The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.” -Reinhold Messner
Reinhold Messner was born on 17 September 1944 in Brixen, Italy. He is an alpinest, or a mountaineer who does difficult climbs.
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“All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.” -John Stuart Mill
“His eminence was due to the flatness of the surrounding landscape.” -John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill was born on 20 May 1806 in Pentonville, London, England. He became a philosopher, a political economist, and a civil servant. John Stuart Mill passed on at 66 years of age on 8 May 1873 in Avignon, France.
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“If you analyze anything, you destroy it.” -Arthur Miller
Arthur Asher Miller was born on 17 October 1915 in Harlem, New York City, New York, United States of America. He became a playwright, a novelist, a short story writer, and an essayist. Among his plays are “All My Sons,” “The Crucible,” and “A View from the Bridge.” He also wrote the screenplay for the film, “The Misfits.” Arthur Asher Miller passed on at 89 years of age on 10 February 2005 in Roxbury, Connecticut, United States of America.
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“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.” -Henry Miller
“One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.” -Henry Miller
Henry Valentine Miller was born on 26 December 1891 in Yorkville, New York City, New York, United States of America. He became an essayist, a travel memoirist, a literary critic, a watercolor painter, and a novelist. His works include the books, “Tropic of Cancer” and “Tropic of Capricorn.” He lived in Europe from 1930 to 1940. Henry Valentine Miller passed on at 88 years of age on 7 June 1980 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
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“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.” -John Homer Miller
John Homer Miller was born in 1839. John Homer Miller passed on in 1913.
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“If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don’t; then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.” -Matt D. Miller
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“Everyone has his burden. What counts is how you carry it.” -Merle Miller
Merle Miller was born on 17 May 1919 in Montour, Iowa, United States of America. He became a writer. Merle Miller passed on at 67 years of age on 10 June 1986 in Danbury, Connecticut, United States of America.
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“They also serve who only stand and wait.” -John Milton
John Milton was born on 9 December 1608 in Bread Street, London, England. He became a poet, a pamphleteer, and a civil servant. He went blind in 1652, and wrote his epic blank verse poem, “Paradise Lost” in 1667. John Milton passed on at 65 years of age on 8 November 1674 in Bunhill Row, London, England.
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“Specialists get paid well, while those who know a little about many things make good conversation at parties.” -Mark Minervini
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“Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the ‘best’ in your chosen field, whatever it is.” -Donald Grant Mitchell
Donald Grant Mitchell was born in 1822. He was an American writer. Donald Grant Mitchell passed on in 1908.
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Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I’ve looked at love that way.
-Joni Mitchell “Both Sides Now” (1969) song
I’ve looked at life from both sides now,
From up and down, and still somehow,
It’s life’s illusions I recall . . .
I really don’t know life at all.
-Joni Mitchell: “Both Sides Now” (1969) song
Roberta Joan Anderson ‘Joni’ Mitchell.
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“It’s not what happens to you; it’s what you do about it that makes the difference.” -W. Mitchell
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“Hard work certainly goes a long way. These days a lot of people work hard, so you have to make sure you work even harder and really dedicate yourself to what you are doing and setting out to achieve.” -Lakshmi Mittal
Lakshmi Mittal is an Indian-born steel magnate.
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“It is a wonderful seasoning of all enjoyments to think of those we love.” -Moliere: “Le Misanthrope” (1666), Act V, Scene iv
“It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.” -Molière
“Things are only worth what you make them worth.” -Molière
Molière is a pseudonym of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, who was born on 15 January 1622 in Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris, France. He became a playwright, an actor, a director, and a poet. Jean-Baptiste Poquelin passed on at 51 years of age on 17 February 1673 in Rue de Richelieu, Paris, France.
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“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” -Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude ‘Claude’ Monet was born in 1840. The term “Impressionism” is derived from the title of his painting, “Impression, soleil levant,” which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris. Oscar-Claude ‘Claude’ Monet passed on in 1926.
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“Fight the good fight with all thy might.” -J. S. B. Monsell
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“The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.” -Thomas S. Monson
Thomas Spencer Monson was born on 21 August 1927 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America. He became a bishop and the sixteenth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Thomas Spencer Monson passed on at 90 years of age on 2 January 2018 in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America.
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“I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended, and patient when there be no redress.” -Elizabeth Montagu
Elizabeth Montagu was born as Elizabeth Robinson on 2 October 1718 in Yorkshire, England. Elizabeth Montagu passed on at 77 years of age on 25 August 1800 in London, England.
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“A good example is far better than a good precept.” -Dwight L. Moody
“The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap.” -Dwight L. Moody
“True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our inertia, laziness, and boredom.” -Dwight L. Moody
Dwight Lyman Moody, also known as D. L. Moody, was born on 5 February 1837 in Northfield, Massachusetts, United States of America. He became a Christian evangelist and a publisher, connected with the Holiness Movement. He is known as the founder of the Moody Church, Northfield School, and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts, as well as the Moody Bible Institute and Moody Publishers. Dwight Lyman Moody passed on at 62 years of age on 22 December 1899 in Northfield, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“A great artist is always before his time or behind it.” -George Moore
“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” -George Moore
George Augustus Moore was born in on 24 February 1852. He was an Irish novelist, short story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist, and dramatist. George Augustus Moore passed on at 80 years of age on 21 January 1933.
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“I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.” -Henry Moore
“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.” -Henry Moore
Henry Moor was born in 1898. He was an English sculptor. Henry Moore passed on in 1986.
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“Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.” -Marianne Craig Moore
“The heart that gives, gathers.” -Marianne Moore
Marianne Craig Moore was born on 15 November 1887 in Kirkwood, Missouri, United States of America. Marianne Craig Moore passed on at 84 years of age on 5 February 1972 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.” -Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore was born on 29 December 1937. She was an American actress. Mary Tylor Moore passed on at 79 years of age on 25 January 2017.
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“How goodness heightens beauty!” -Hannah More
“We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.” -Hannah More
Hannah More was born on 2 February 1745. She was an English religious writer and social reformer. Hannah More passed on at 88 years of age on 7 September 1833.
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“The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.” -Morell
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“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” -J. P. Morgan
John Pierpont Morgan, Senior, also known as J. P. Morgan, was born on 17 April 1837 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America. He became a banker, a financier, an art collector, and a philanthropist. In 1892, he arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric Company, to form General Electric. After financing the creation of the Federal Steel Company, he merged it in 1901 with the Carnegie Steel Company and several other steel and iron businesses, including Consolidated Steel and Wire Company, to form the United States Steel Corporation. John Pierpont Morgan, Senior passed on at 75 years of age on 31 March 1913 in Rome, Italy.
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“In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.” -Christopher Morley
“Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you’re not really interested in order to get where you’re going.” -Christopher Morley
“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.” -Christopher Morley
“There is only one rule for being a good talker: learn to listen.” -Christopher Morley
Christopher Darlington Morley was born on 5 May 1890 in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He became a journalist, a novelist, an essayist, a poet, a lecturer, and a playwright. He was a founder and long-time contributing editor of the “Saturday Review of Literature.” Christopher Darlington Morley passed on at 66 years of age on 28 March 1957 in Roslyn, New York, United States of America.
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“Life’s a balancing act. You have multiple roles and goals, and you can do it all - just not all at once.” -Denise Morrison
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“There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.” -Dwight Morrow: as quoted in the “San Francisco News” (1 June 1949) (similar quotation attributed to Milton Friedman)
Dwight Whitney Morrow was born on 11 January 1873 in Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America. He became a lawyer, a banker, and a diplomat. Dwight Whitney Morrow passed on at 58 years of age on 5 October 1931 in Englewood, New Jersey, United States of America.
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“You are destined to fly, but that cocoon has to go.” -Nelle Morton
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“You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.” -Kate Morton
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“We too often bind ourselves by authorities rather than by the truth.” -Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mott was born in 1793. Lucretia Mott passed on in 1880.
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“You only get paid for done.” -Dax Moy: “The Magic Hundred” (14 September 2008) as published at http://magichundred.blogspot.com/2008/09/you-only-get-rewards-for-done.html
Dax Moy was born on 20 September 1970. He is a British physical fitness trainer.
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“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence, nor imagination, nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, full name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfangus Theophilus Mozart, was born on 27 January 1756 in Salzburg, Austria. He became a musician and a music composer. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart passed on at 35 years of age on 5 December 1791 in Vienna, Austria.
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“You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big, bold, righteous, and eternal.” -Barry Munro
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“Men will spend their health getting wealth; then, gladly pay all they have earned to get health back.” -Mike Murdock
Michael Dean ‘Mike’ Murdock was born on 18 April 1946 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States of America. He is a proponent of prosperity theology, pastor of the Wisdom Center ministry in Fort Worth, Texas, and host of the “Wisdom Keys with Mike Murdock” television program.
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“No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.” -Francois Muriac
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“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.” -Elon Musk
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“Every life has a purpose. We need to let go of the past. Live in the present. Do not waste today worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Embrace your true spirit, embrace and listen to grace, and you will be transformed in the moment. Do not fixate on what you want but give thanks for what you have.” -Caroline Myss
Caroline Myss was born in 1952.
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“To be a person of truth, be swayed neither by approval nor disapproval. Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.” -Nachman of Breslov
“You are never given an obstacle you cannot overcome.” -Nachman of Breslov
Nachman of Breslov was born in 1772 in Medzeboz, Ukraine. He was a great-grandson of Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism. He became a “Torah” sage, teacher of Hasidic Judaism, and the founder of the Breslov Hasidic sect. Believers of the Breslov Hasidic sect endeavor to develop a blissful relationship with God and believe in prayer as the principle expression of religious life. Nachman of Breslov is known as the author of the work, “Likutey Moharan,” composed partially by himself and partially by his chief disciple, Rabbi Nossan Sternhartz. Nachman of Breslov passed on at 38 years of age in 1810 in Uman, Ukraine.
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“All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.” -Rose Namajunas
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“It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.” -George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan was born in 1882. He was an American drama critic, social critic, and editor. He worked closely with H. L. Mencken, bringing the literary magazine, “The Smart Set,” to prominence as an editor, and co-founding and editing “The American Mercury” and “The American Spectator.” George Jean Nathan passed on in 1958.
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“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against not with the wind. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm.” -John Neal
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“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.” -Kristen Neff
“Unlike self-criticism, which asks if you’re good enough, self-compassion asks, ‘What’s good for you?’” -Kristin Neff
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“Most things, except agriculture, can wait.” -Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru was born in 1889. He was an Indian statesman. Jawaharlal Nehru passed on in 1964.
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“Of those who say nothing few are silent.” -Thomas Neil
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“There is no conflict between science and religion. Conflict only arises from an incomplete knowledge of either science or religion, or both.” -Russell M. Nelson
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“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” -Willie Nelson
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” -Willie Nelson
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“It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.” -Mabel Newcomber
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“Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.” -John Henry Newman
“Growth is the only evidence of life.” -John Henry Newman
“In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” -John Henry Newman
“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” -John Henry Newman: “The Development of Christian Doctrine” (1834)
John Henry Newman, also known as Cardinal Newman, was born on 21 February 1801 in London, England. He became a minister in the Church of England in 1824. In 1845, he converted to Roman Catholicism, become an ordained priest in 1848, and then become a cardinal in 1879. He wrote two novels, “Loss and Gain,” and “Callista.” John Henry Newman passed on at 89 years of age on 11 August 1890 in Birmingham, England.
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“If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.” -A. Edward Newton
A. Edward Newton is Alfred Edward Newton.
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“People forget how fast you did a job but they remember how well you did it.” -Howard W. Newton
“The thoughtless are rarely wordless.” -Howard W. Newton
“When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.” -Howard W. Newton
Howard W. Newton was born in 1903. He was an American advertising executive and magazine columnist. Howard W. Newton passed on in 1951.
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Thro’ many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come;
’Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.
-John Newton
“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” -John Newton
John Newton was born in 1725. John Newton passed on in 1807.
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“The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem of truth, justice, and righteousness, and it remains to this day through unaccountable ages have passed.” -J. F. Newton
“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” -J. F. Newton
“We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us, how we can take it, what we do with it, and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty that is the test of living.” -J. F. Newton
Joseph Fort Newton, also known as J. F. Newton, was born in 1878. Joseph Fort Newton passed on in 1949.
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“I think being happy keeps you looking young.” -Olivia Newton-John
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“If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.” -Kevin Ngo
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“To dig in one’s own earth with one’s own spade, does life hold anything better?” -Beverly Nichols
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“The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.” -Ralph Nichols
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“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration . . . and expectation.” -Jack Nicklaus
“Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them.” -Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus was born in 1940. He is an American professional golfer.
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“A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. They surround the worlds ignorance and press for admission.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
“If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
“It is better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
“Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do however virtuous can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
“The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
Karl Paul Reinhold ‘Reinhold’ Niebuhr was born in 1892. He was an American theologian, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary. Among his most influential books are “Moral Man and Immoral Society” and “The Nature and Destiny of Man.” Karl Paul Reinhold ‘Reinhold’ Niebuhr passed on in 1971.
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“Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard and then succeed on purpose.” -G. K. Nielson
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“A ship is always referred to as ‘she’ because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.” -Chester W. Nimitz
Chester William Nimitz was born in 1885. He was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy. Chester William Nimitz passed on in 1966.
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“Dreams are necessary to life.” -Anaïs Nin
“The function of art is to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” -Anaïs Nin
“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.” -Anaïs Nin
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” -Anaïs Nin
“When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.” -Anaïs Nin
“When you possess light within, you see it externally.” -Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin was born on 21 February 1903 as Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell. She was a French-born American writer and diarist. She became famous for her published journals, which span several decades. Anaïs Nin passed on at 73 years of age on 14 January 1977.
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“If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.” [translation to English]
“Jika hati saya dapat menjadi murni dan sederhana, seperti hati seorang anak, saya pikir mungkin tidak ada kebahagiaan yang lebih besar dari ini.” [original Japanese]
-Kitaro Nishida
Kitarō Nishada was born on 19 May 1870 in Unokema, Ishikawa, Japan. He became a moral philosopher and a religious scholar. He is known as the founder of the Kyoto School of philosophy. Kitarō Nishada passed on at 75 years of age on 7 June 1945 in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan.
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“Every winner has scars.” -Robert N. C. Nix
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“A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.” -Louis Nizer
“True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.” -Louis Nizer
“Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.” -Louis Nizer
Louis Nizer was born in 1902. He was an English-born American lawyer. Louis Nizer passed on in 1994.
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“Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.” -Alex Noble
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“And I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future.” -Han Nolan
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“Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters, and troubadours, for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.” -Jacob Nordby
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“Anything, everything, little or big, becomes an adventure then the right person shares it.” -Kathleen Norris
“In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.” -Kathleen Norris
“Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.” -Kathleen Norris
“Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.” -Kathleen Norris: “Hands Full of Living”
“Life is easier to take than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.” -Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Thompson ‘Kathy’ Norris was born on 16 July 1880 in San Francisco, California, United States of America. She became a novelist and a newspaper columnist. Kathleen Thompson ‘Kathy’ Norris passed on at 85 years of age on 18 January 1966 in San Francisco, California, United States of America.
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“Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.” -James Northcote: as quoted originally in “New Monthly Magazine” (1826 - 1827) and later in James Northcote and William Hazlitt: “Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R.A.” (1830)
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“Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.” -Christiane Northrup
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“The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don’t agree with.” -Eleanor Holmes Norton
Eleanor Holmes Norton was born in 1937.
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“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.” -Henri Nouwen
“This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.” -Henri Nouwen
Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen was born on 24 January 1932 in Nijkerk, Netherlands. He became a Dutch Catholic priest, a professor, a writer, and a theologian. Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen passed on at 64 years of age on 21 September 1996 in Hilversum, Netherlands.
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“Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.” -Michael Novak
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“I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.” -Novalis: “Heinrich von Ofterdingen” (1802), book 2
Novalis is a pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, who was born on 2 May 1772 in Wiederstedt, Electorate of Saxony. He became a poet, a writer, a civil engineer, and a mineralogist. Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg passed on at 28 years of age on 25 March 1801 in Weissenfels, Electorate of Saxony.
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“It is the job of the people to question the right to rule, not the job of those who rule to question the rights of the people.” -Justin Nutt
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“I am willing to put myself through anything - temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers - an often painful process.” -Diana Nyad
Diana Nyad is a long-distance swimmer.
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“Be virtuous and you will be happy, but you will be lonesome sometimes.” -Edgar Wilson Nye
Edgar Wilson ‘Bill’ Nye was born in 1850. He was an American humorist. Edgar Wilson ‘Bill’ Nye passed on in 1896.
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“To be a person of truth, be swayed neither by approval nor disapproval. Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.” -Nachman of Breslov
“You are never given an obstacle you cannot overcome.” -Nachman of Breslov
Nachman of Breslov was born in 1772 in Medzeboz, Ukraine. He was a great-grandson of Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidic Judaism. He became a “Torah” sage, teacher of Hasidic Judaism, and the founder of the Breslov Hasidic sect. Believers of the Breslov Hasidic sect endeavor to develop a blissful relationship with God and believe in prayer as the principle expression of religious life. Nachman of Breslov is known as the author of the work, “Likutey Moharan,” composed partially by himself and partially by his chief disciple, Rabbi Nossan Sternhartz. Nachman of Breslov passed on at 38 years of age in 1810 in Uman, Ukraine.
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“All I can control is myself and just keep having a positive attitude.” -Rose Namajunas
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“It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.” -George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan was born in 1882. He was an American drama critic, social critic, and editor. He worked closely with H. L. Mencken, bringing the literary magazine, “The Smart Set,” to prominence as an editor, and co-founding and editing “The American Mercury” and “The American Spectator.” George Jean Nathan passed on in 1958.
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“A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against not with the wind. No man ever worked his passage anywhere in a dead calm.” -John Neal
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“I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.” -Kristen Neff
“Unlike self-criticism, which asks if you’re good enough, self-compassion asks, ‘What’s good for you?’” -Kristin Neff
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“Most things, except agriculture, can wait.” -Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru was born in 1889. He was an Indian statesman. Jawaharlal Nehru passed on in 1964.
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“Of those who say nothing few are silent.” -Thomas Neil
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“There is no conflict between science and religion. Conflict only arises from an incomplete knowledge of either science or religion, or both.” -Russell M. Nelson
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“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” -Willie Nelson
“When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” -Willie Nelson
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“It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement.” -Mabel Newcomber
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“Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.” -John Henry Newman
“Growth is the only evidence of life.” -John Henry Newman
“In a higher world it is otherwise, but here below to live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” -John Henry Newman
“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” -John Henry Newman: “The Development of Christian Doctrine” (1834)
John Henry Newman, also known as Cardinal Newman, was born on 21 February 1801 in London, England. He became a minister in the Church of England in 1824. In 1845, he converted to Roman Catholicism, become an ordained priest in 1848, and then become a cardinal in 1879. He wrote two novels, “Loss and Gain,” and “Callista.” John Henry Newman passed on at 89 years of age on 11 August 1890 in Birmingham, England.
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“If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.” -A. Edward Newton
A. Edward Newton is Alfred Edward Newton.
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“People forget how fast you did a job but they remember how well you did it.” -Howard W. Newton
“The thoughtless are rarely wordless.” -Howard W. Newton
“When a man blames others for his failures, it’s a good idea to credit others with his successes.” -Howard W. Newton
Howard W. Newton was born in 1903. He was an American advertising executive and magazine columnist. Howard W. Newton passed on in 1951.
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Thro’ many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come;
’Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home.
-John Newton
“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.” -John Newton
John Newton was born in 1725. John Newton passed on in 1807.
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“The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem of truth, justice, and righteousness, and it remains to this day through unaccountable ages have passed.” -J. F. Newton
“People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.” -J. F. Newton
“We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us, how we can take it, what we do with it, and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty that is the test of living.” -J. F. Newton
Joseph Fort Newton, also known as J. F. Newton, was born in 1878. Joseph Fort Newton passed on in 1949.
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“I think being happy keeps you looking young.” -Olivia Newton-John
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“If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.” -Kevin Ngo
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“To dig in one’s own earth with one’s own spade, does life hold anything better?” -Beverly Nichols
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“The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.” -Ralph Nichols
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“Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one’s levels of aspiration . . . and expectation.” -Jack Nicklaus
“Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them.” -Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus was born in 1940. He is an American professional golfer.
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“A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. They surround the worlds ignorance and press for admission.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
“If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
“It is better to create than to be learned; creating is the true essence of life.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
“Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do however virtuous can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
“The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.” -Reinhold Niebuhr
Karl Paul Reinhold ‘Reinhold’ Niebuhr was born in 1892. He was an American theologian, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary. Among his most influential books are “Moral Man and Immoral Society” and “The Nature and Destiny of Man.” Karl Paul Reinhold ‘Reinhold’ Niebuhr passed on in 1971.
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“Successful people are not gifted; they just work hard and then succeed on purpose.” -G. K. Nielson
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“A ship is always referred to as ‘she’ because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.” -Chester W. Nimitz
Chester William Nimitz was born in 1885. He was a fleet admiral in the United States Navy. Chester William Nimitz passed on in 1966.
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“Dreams are necessary to life.” -Anaïs Nin
“The function of art is to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.” -Anaïs Nin
“The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.” -Anaïs Nin
“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” -Anaïs Nin
“When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.” -Anaïs Nin
“When you possess light within, you see it externally.” -Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin was born on 21 February 1903 as Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell. She was a French-born American writer and diarist. She became famous for her published journals, which span several decades. Anaïs Nin passed on at 73 years of age on 14 January 1977.
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“If my heart can become pure and simple like that of a child, I think there probably can be no greater happiness than this.” [translation to English]
“Jika hati saya dapat menjadi murni dan sederhana, seperti hati seorang anak, saya pikir mungkin tidak ada kebahagiaan yang lebih besar dari ini.” [original Japanese]
-Kitaro Nishida
Kitarō Nishada was born on 19 May 1870 in Unokema, Ishikawa, Japan. He became a moral philosopher and a religious scholar. He is known as the founder of the Kyoto School of philosophy. Kitarō Nishada passed on at 75 years of age on 7 June 1945 in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan.
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“Every winner has scars.” -Robert N. C. Nix
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“A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.” -Louis Nizer
“True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.” -Louis Nizer
“Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.” -Louis Nizer
Louis Nizer was born in 1902. He was an English-born American lawyer. Louis Nizer passed on in 1994.
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“Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.” -Alex Noble
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“And I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future.” -Han Nolan
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“Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters, and troubadours, for they teach us to see the world through different eyes.” -Jacob Nordby
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“Anything, everything, little or big, becomes an adventure then the right person shares it.” -Kathleen Norris
“In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.” -Kathleen Norris
“Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.” -Kathleen Norris
“Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.” -Kathleen Norris: “Hands Full of Living”
“Life is easier to take than you’d think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.” -Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Thompson ‘Kathy’ Norris was born on 16 July 1880 in San Francisco, California, United States of America. She became a novelist and a newspaper columnist. Kathleen Thompson ‘Kathy’ Norris passed on at 85 years of age on 18 January 1966 in San Francisco, California, United States of America.
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“Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.” -James Northcote: as quoted originally in “New Monthly Magazine” (1826 - 1827) and later in James Northcote and William Hazlitt: “Conversations of James Northcote, Esq., R.A.” (1830)
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“Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.” -Christiane Northrup
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“The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don’t agree with.” -Eleanor Holmes Norton
Eleanor Holmes Norton was born in 1937.
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“Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.” -Henri Nouwen
“This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.” -Henri Nouwen
Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen was born on 24 January 1932 in Nijkerk, Netherlands. He became a Dutch Catholic priest, a professor, a writer, and a theologian. Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen passed on at 64 years of age on 21 September 1996 in Hilversum, Netherlands.
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“Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.” -Michael Novak
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“I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.” -Novalis: “Heinrich von Ofterdingen” (1802), book 2
Novalis is a pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, who was born on 2 May 1772 in Wiederstedt, Electorate of Saxony. He became a poet, a writer, a civil engineer, and a mineralogist. Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg passed on at 28 years of age on 25 March 1801 in Weissenfels, Electorate of Saxony.
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“It is the job of the people to question the right to rule, not the job of those who rule to question the rights of the people.” -Justin Nutt
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“I am willing to put myself through anything - temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level. I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers - an often painful process.” -Diana Nyad
Diana Nyad is a long-distance swimmer.
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“Be virtuous and you will be happy, but you will be lonesome sometimes.” -Edgar Wilson Nye
Edgar Wilson ‘Bill’ Nye was born in 1850. He was an American humorist. Edgar Wilson ‘Bill’ Nye passed on in 1896.
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“If we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination.” -Dallin H. Oaks: “Be Not Deceived” (October 2004)
Dallin Harris Oaks was born on 12 August 1932 in Provo, Utah, United States of America. He became a lawyer, a judge, and a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.” -Sharon O’Brien
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“When people undermine your dreams, predict your doom, or criticize you, remember, they’re telling you their story, not yours.” -Cynthia Occelli
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“I don’t dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it’s just a number.” -Nola Ochs
Nola Ochs was born on 22 November 1911 in Jetmore, Kansas, United States of America. At 95 years of age, on 14 May 2007, she became the world’s oldest college graduate up to that time. Nola Oaks passed on at 105 years of age on 9 December 2016 in Dodge City, Kansas, United States of America.
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“Baby step by baby step, you have what you need right now to start moving in the direction of your happiest dreams.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly
“Creative action leads to ‘joy attraction’.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly
“Joy is your destiny. You were created for joy. Pay attention to what brings you joy and take joyful actions daily. Creative action equals joy attraction. Joy is the path to your true purpose.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly
“The dream and the dreamer are always matched. You could not have a dream without the means, right now, to begin it.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly
Marta Davidovich Ockuly was born in 1952. She is a humanistic psychologist. Author website www.JoyOfQuotes.com.
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“No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.” -Hortense Odlum
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“Keeping in touch with childhood memories keeps us believing in life’s simplest pleasures, like a rainy afternoon, a swingset, and a giant puddle to play in.” -Chrissy Ogden
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“The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. First of all, happiness must be shared. Selfishness is its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one’s self. It is quiet, seldom found for long in crowds, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.” -William Ogden
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“The secret of life is that all we have and are is a gift of grace to be shared.” -Lloyd John Ogilvie
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“Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.” -David Ogilvy
“I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.” -David Ogilvy
“If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.” -David Ogilvy
“Leaders grasp nettles.” -David Ogilvy
“Managing an advertising agency isn’t all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has one principle responsibility: to provide an atmosphere in which creative mavericks can do useful work.” -David Ogilvy
David Ogilvy was born in 1911.
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“Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.” -Janette Oke
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“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way -things that I had no words for.” -Georgia O’Keefe
“Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous . . . Since I cannot sing, I paint.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
“The days you work are the best days.” -Georgia O’Keefe
“Where I was born and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.” -Georgia O’Keefe
Georgia Totto O’Keeffe was born on 15 November 1887 in Town of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States of America. She became an artist. Georgia Totto O’Keeffe passed on at 98 years of age on 6 March 1986 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America.
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” -Mary Oliver
“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” -Mary Oliver
“You can have the other words - chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I’ll take grace. I don’t know what it is exactly, but I’ll take it.” -Mary Oliver
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“Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.” -Judith Olney
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“No matter how much we learn there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow:
I used to think I knew I knew.
But now I must confess.
The more I know I know
I know I know I know the less.”
-A. Ray Olpin
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“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do, and that often means living outside the limits of one’s comfort zone.” -Jeff Olson
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“A man’s work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing things. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself. So long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work he is fairly safe.” -Eugene O’Neill
Eugene Gladstone O’Neill was born in 1888. He was an American playwright. Eugene Gladstone O’Neill passed on in 1953.
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
The wise grows it under his feet.
-James Oppenheim: “The Wise”
James Oppenheim was born on 24 May 1882 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America. He became a short story writer, a novelist, and the founder and editor of “The Seven Arts” literary magazine. James Oppenheim passed on at 50 years of age on 4 August 1932 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
“Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
“In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
Julius Robert Oppenheimer, also known as J. Robert Oppenheimer, was born on 22 April 1904 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He became an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He became the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, and director of the Manhattan Project, which developed the first nuclear weapons, detonated on 16 July 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico. Julius Robert Oppenheimer passed on at 62 years of age on 18 February 1967 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America.
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“Live your life so that if someone says ‘Be yourself,’ it’s good advice.” -Robert Orben
Robert Orben was born on 4 March 1927 in the United States of America. He is a magician and a comedy writer.
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“Be true to your word and your work and your friend.” -John Boyle O’Reilly: as quoted in James Jeffrey Roche: “The Life of John Boyle O’Reilly” (1891), ‘Rules of the Road’
John Boyle O’Reilly was born on 28 June 1844 in Dowth, County Meath, Republic of Ireland. He became an Irish-born American writer, poet, journalist, and advocate for Irish self-rule. His poems are found in his books, “Songs from the Southern Seas, and Other Poems” (1873), “Songs, Legends and Ballads” (1878), and in other works. John Boyle O’Reilly passed on at 46 years of age on 10 August 1890 in Hull, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“Whatever the thinker thinks, the prover proves.” -Leonard Orr
Leonard Orr was born on 15 November 1937 in Walton, New York, United States of America.
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“Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.” -Jose Ortega y Gasset
“The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified, and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.” -José Ortega y Gasset: “The Revolt of the Masses” (1929)
José Ortega y Gasset was born on 9 May 1883 in Madrid, Spain. He became a philosopher and an essayist. José Ortega y Gasset passed on at 72 years of age on 18 October 1955 in Madrid, Spain.
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“If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in it.” -W. A. Orton
William A. Orton.
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“Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” -Ronald E. Osborn
Ronald Edwin Osborn was born on 5 September 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. He became a Christian reverend. Ronald Edwin Osborn passed on at 81 years of age on 1 October 1998 in Lane County, Oregon, United States of America.
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“Being Politically Correct means always having to say you’re sorry.” -Charles Osgood
“I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it’s become a labor of love. They love what they do.” -Charles Osgood
Charles Osgood Wood III, also known simply as Charles Osgood, was born on 8 January 1933 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He is a television and radio commentator and a writer. He is known for “The Osgood File” show, which first broadcast on the CBS Radio Network in 1971, and as the host of the “CBS News Sunday Morning” show (1994 - 2016).
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“We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.” -Arthur O’Shaughnessy
Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy was born on 14 March 1844 in London, England. He became a poet. Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy passed on at 36 years of age on 30 January 1881in London, England.
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“To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.” -Mirabel Osler
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“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.” -William Osler
“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.” -William Osler: “Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings” (1961), page 105
“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.” -William Osler
“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.” -William Osler
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
“The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.” -William Osler
“To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life.” -William Osler
“To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.” -William Osler
“What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.” -William Osler
“When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.” -William Osler
“Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher’s stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.” -William Osler
William Osler was born on 12 July 1849 in Bradford West Gwillimbury, Canada. He became a physician, a medical historian, and a scientist. William Osler passed on at 70 years of age on 29 December 1919 in Oxford, England.
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“If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it you might as well laugh about it now.” -Marie Osmond
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“Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.” -Joel Osteen
“When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it’s not enough to just not dwell on it . . . You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.” -Joel Osteen
You have to take the good with the bad,
smile when you are sad,
love what you’ve got
and remember what you had.
Always forgive but not forget,
learn from your mistake but never regret,
people change, things go wrong,
just remember life goes on.
-Joel Osteen
“You cannot soar with the eagles as long as you hang out with the turkeys.” -Joel Osteen
Joel Osteen was born in 1963. He is a writer, a televangelist, and the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. Mister Osteen is known for sharing positive messages of hope and encouragement. His ministry reaches more than seven million broadcast media viewers weekly in more than one hundred countries.
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“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.” -Herbert Otto
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“You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.” -Jim Otto
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“True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.” -Bill Owens
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“Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it, and you’ll start believing in it.” -Jesse Owens
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” -Jesse Owens
“One chance is all you need.” -Jesse Owens
James Cleveland ‘Jesse’ Owens was born on 12 September 1913 in Oakville, Alabama, United States of America. He became a professional athlete. In 1935, he set six track and field world records in less than one hour. James Cleveland ‘Jesse’ Owens passed on at 66 years of age on 31 March 1980 in Tucson, Arizona, United States of America.
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“It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the Earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.” -John Owen
John Owen was born in 1616. John Owen passed on in 1683.
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“If we choose the wrong road, we choose the wrong destination.” -Dallin H. Oaks: “Be Not Deceived” (October 2004)
Dallin Harris Oaks was born on 12 August 1932 in Provo, Utah, United States of America. He became a lawyer, a judge, and a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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“Writing became such a process of discovery that I couldn’t wait to get to work in the morning: I wanted to know what I was going to say.” -Sharon O’Brien
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“When people undermine your dreams, predict your doom, or criticize you, remember, they’re telling you their story, not yours.” -Cynthia Occelli
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“I don’t dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it’s just a number.” -Nola Ochs
Nola Ochs was born on 22 November 1911 in Jetmore, Kansas, United States of America. At 95 years of age, on 14 May 2007, she became the world’s oldest college graduate up to that time. Nola Oaks passed on at 105 years of age on 9 December 2016 in Dodge City, Kansas, United States of America.
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“Baby step by baby step, you have what you need right now to start moving in the direction of your happiest dreams.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly
“Creative action leads to ‘joy attraction’.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly
“Joy is your destiny. You were created for joy. Pay attention to what brings you joy and take joyful actions daily. Creative action equals joy attraction. Joy is the path to your true purpose.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly
“The dream and the dreamer are always matched. You could not have a dream without the means, right now, to begin it.” -Marta Davidovich Ockuly
Marta Davidovich Ockuly was born in 1952. She is a humanistic psychologist. Author website www.JoyOfQuotes.com.
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“No life, if it is properly realized, is without cosmic importance.” -Hortense Odlum
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“Keeping in touch with childhood memories keeps us believing in life’s simplest pleasures, like a rainy afternoon, a swingset, and a giant puddle to play in.” -Chrissy Ogden
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“The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. First of all, happiness must be shared. Selfishness is its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one’s self. It is quiet, seldom found for long in crowds, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.” -William Ogden
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“The secret of life is that all we have and are is a gift of grace to be shared.” -Lloyd John Ogilvie
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“Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.” -David Ogilvy
“I always said that mega-mergers were for megalomaniacs.” -David Ogilvy
“If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.” -David Ogilvy
“Leaders grasp nettles.” -David Ogilvy
“Managing an advertising agency isn’t all beer and skittles. After fourteen years of it, I have come to the conclusion that the top man has one principle responsibility: to provide an atmosphere in which creative mavericks can do useful work.” -David Ogilvy
David Ogilvy was born in 1911.
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“Having someone who understands is a great blessing for ourselves. Being someone who understands is a great blessing to others.” -Janette Oke
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“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way -things that I had no words for.” -Georgia O’Keefe
“Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous . . . Since I cannot sing, I paint.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
“The days you work are the best days.” -Georgia O’Keefe
“Where I was born and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.” -Georgia O’Keefe
Georgia Totto O’Keeffe was born on 15 November 1887 in Town of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, United States of America. She became an artist. Georgia Totto O’Keeffe passed on at 98 years of age on 6 March 1986 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America.
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” -Mary Oliver
“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” -Mary Oliver
“You can have the other words - chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I’ll take grace. I don’t know what it is exactly, but I’ll take it.” -Mary Oliver
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“Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.” -Judith Olney
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“No matter how much we learn there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow:
I used to think I knew I knew.
But now I must confess.
The more I know I know
I know I know I know the less.”
-A. Ray Olpin
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“Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do, and that often means living outside the limits of one’s comfort zone.” -Jeff Olson
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“A man’s work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing things. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself. So long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work he is fairly safe.” -Eugene O’Neill
Eugene Gladstone O’Neill was born in 1888. He was an American playwright. Eugene Gladstone O’Neill passed on in 1953.
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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
The wise grows it under his feet.
-James Oppenheim: “The Wise”
James Oppenheim was born on 24 May 1882 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America. He became a short story writer, a novelist, and the founder and editor of “The Seven Arts” literary magazine. James Oppenheim passed on at 50 years of age on 4 August 1932 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
“Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
“In a free world, if it is to remain free, we must maintain, with our lives if need be, but surely by our lives, the opportunity for a man to learn anything.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
“The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
Julius Robert Oppenheimer, also known as J. Robert Oppenheimer, was born on 22 April 1904 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He became an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. He became the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, and director of the Manhattan Project, which developed the first nuclear weapons, detonated on 16 July 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico. Julius Robert Oppenheimer passed on at 62 years of age on 18 February 1967 in Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America.
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“Live your life so that if someone says ‘Be yourself,’ it’s good advice.” -Robert Orben
Robert Orben was born on 4 March 1927 in the United States of America. He is a magician and a comedy writer.
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“Be true to your word and your work and your friend.” -John Boyle O’Reilly: as quoted in James Jeffrey Roche: “The Life of John Boyle O’Reilly” (1891), ‘Rules of the Road’
John Boyle O’Reilly was born on 28 June 1844 in Dowth, County Meath, Republic of Ireland. He became an Irish-born American writer, poet, journalist, and advocate for Irish self-rule. His poems are found in his books, “Songs from the Southern Seas, and Other Poems” (1873), “Songs, Legends and Ballads” (1878), and in other works. John Boyle O’Reilly passed on at 46 years of age on 10 August 1890 in Hull, Massachusetts, United States of America.
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“Whatever the thinker thinks, the prover proves.” -Leonard Orr
Leonard Orr was born on 15 November 1937 in Walton, New York, United States of America.
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“Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.” -Jose Ortega y Gasset
“The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified, and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated.” -José Ortega y Gasset: “The Revolt of the Masses” (1929)
José Ortega y Gasset was born on 9 May 1883 in Madrid, Spain. He became a philosopher and an essayist. José Ortega y Gasset passed on at 72 years of age on 18 October 1955 in Madrid, Spain.
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“If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish in it.” -W. A. Orton
William A. Orton.
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“Undertake something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” -Ronald E. Osborn
Ronald Edwin Osborn was born on 5 September 1917 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. He became a Christian reverend. Ronald Edwin Osborn passed on at 81 years of age on 1 October 1998 in Lane County, Oregon, United States of America.
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“Being Politically Correct means always having to say you’re sorry.” -Charles Osgood
“I think the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is as great as it is because it’s become a labor of love. They love what they do.” -Charles Osgood
Charles Osgood Wood III, also known simply as Charles Osgood, was born on 8 January 1933 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He is a television and radio commentator and a writer. He is known for “The Osgood File” show, which first broadcast on the CBS Radio Network in 1971, and as the host of the “CBS News Sunday Morning” show (1994 - 2016).
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“We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.” -Arthur O’Shaughnessy
Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy was born on 14 March 1844 in London, England. He became a poet. Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy passed on at 36 years of age on 30 January 1881in London, England.
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“To be able to walk under the branches of a tree that you have planted is really to feel you have arrived with your garden. So far we are on the way: we can now stand beside ours.” -Mirabel Osler
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“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.” -William Osler
“One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.” -William Osler: “Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings” (1961), page 105
“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.” -William Osler
“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today’s work superbly well.” -William Osler
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
“The very first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.” -William Osler
“To have striven, to have made an effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle. We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, life.” -William Osler
“To know what has to be done, then do it, comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.” -William Osler
“What is patience but an equanimity which enables you to rise superior to the trials of life.” -William Osler
“When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.” -William Osler
“Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher’s stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.” -William Osler
William Osler was born on 12 July 1849 in Bradford West Gwillimbury, Canada. He became a physician, a medical historian, and a scientist. William Osler passed on at 70 years of age on 29 December 1919 in Oxford, England.
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“If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it you might as well laugh about it now.” -Marie Osmond
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“Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.” -Joel Osteen
“When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it’s not enough to just not dwell on it . . . You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.” -Joel Osteen
You have to take the good with the bad,
smile when you are sad,
love what you’ve got
and remember what you had.
Always forgive but not forget,
learn from your mistake but never regret,
people change, things go wrong,
just remember life goes on.
-Joel Osteen
“You cannot soar with the eagles as long as you hang out with the turkeys.” -Joel Osteen
Joel Osteen was born in 1963. He is a writer, a televangelist, and the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. Mister Osteen is known for sharing positive messages of hope and encouragement. His ministry reaches more than seven million broadcast media viewers weekly in more than one hundred countries.
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“Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.” -Herbert Otto
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“You must also give mental and physical fitness priority.” -Jim Otto
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“True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well.” -Bill Owens
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“Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it, and you’ll start believing in it.” -Jesse Owens
“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” -Jesse Owens
“One chance is all you need.” -Jesse Owens
James Cleveland ‘Jesse’ Owens was born on 12 September 1913 in Oakville, Alabama, United States of America. He became a professional athlete. In 1935, he set six track and field world records in less than one hour. James Cleveland ‘Jesse’ Owens passed on at 66 years of age on 31 March 1980 in Tucson, Arizona, United States of America.
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“It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon the Earth. It is often those who are despised and trampled on that bear up the weight of a whole nation.” -John Owen
John Owen was born in 1616. John Owen passed on in 1683.
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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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“None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it’s the little facts that make us.” -Thomm Quackenbush: “We Shadows”
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“In a fair gale every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot.” -Francis Quarles
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,
And he that had no cross deserves no crown.
-Francis Quarles
Francis Quarles was born in 1592. Francis Quarles passed on in 1644.
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“You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this, nothing works unless you do.” -Nido Qubein
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” -Nido Qubein
Nido Qubein was born in 1948. He is a Lebanon-born American writer, business consultant, and motivational speaker.
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“If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.” -Robert Quillen
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“You get the most of what you need the least.” -Jane Bryant Quinn: ‘Staying Ahead’ syndicated newspaper column published in “Washington Post” (1975) newspaper
Jane Bryant Quinn was born on 5 February 1939 in Niagara Falls, New York, United States of America. She is a financial writer.
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“When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.” -Josiah Quincy
Josiah Quincy was born in 1744. Josiah Quincy passed on in 1775.
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“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.” -Anna Quindlen
“You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. So I suppose the best piece of advice I could give anyone is pretty simple: get a life.” -Anna Quindlen: “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”
Anna Quindlen was born in 1952. She is an American writer.
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“Today, as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.” -Edgar Quinet: “Philosophy of Human History” (1825)
Edgar Quinet was born on 17 February 1803 in Bourg-en-Bresse, département of Ain. He became a historian and a writer. Edgar Quinet passed on at 72 years of age on 27 March 1875 in Versailles, France.
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“A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.” -Quintilian
“If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.” -Quintilian
“The learned understand the theory of art, the unlearned its pleasure.” -Quintilian: “De Institutione Oratoria”
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, also known simply as Quintilian or Quintillian or Quinctilian, was born in about C.E. 35 in Calagurris, Fibularia, Hispania (now Calahorra, La Rioja, Spain). He was an orator and rhetorician of ancient Rome. Marcus Fabius Quintilianus passed on in about C.E. 100.
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“None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it’s the little facts that make us.” -Thomm Quackenbush: “We Shadows”
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“In a fair gale every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot.” -Francis Quarles
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down,
And he that had no cross deserves no crown.
-Francis Quarles
Francis Quarles was born in 1592. Francis Quarles passed on in 1644.
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“You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this, nothing works unless you do.” -Nido Qubein
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.” -Nido Qubein
Nido Qubein was born in 1948. He is a Lebanon-born American writer, business consultant, and motivational speaker.
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“If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.” -Robert Quillen
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“You get the most of what you need the least.” -Jane Bryant Quinn: ‘Staying Ahead’ syndicated newspaper column published in “Washington Post” (1975) newspaper
Jane Bryant Quinn was born on 5 February 1939 in Niagara Falls, New York, United States of America. She is a financial writer.
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“When you have a number of disagreeable duties to perform, always do the most disagreeable first.” -Josiah Quincy
Josiah Quincy was born in 1744. Josiah Quincy passed on in 1775.
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“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.” -Anna Quindlen
“You cannot be really first-rate at your work if your work is all you are. So I suppose the best piece of advice I could give anyone is pretty simple: get a life.” -Anna Quindlen: “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”
Anna Quindlen was born in 1952. She is an American writer.
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“Today, as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.” -Edgar Quinet: “Philosophy of Human History” (1825)
Edgar Quinet was born on 17 February 1803 in Bourg-en-Bresse, département of Ain. He became a historian and a writer. Edgar Quinet passed on at 72 years of age on 27 March 1875 in Versailles, France.
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“A great part of art consists in imitation. For the whole conduct of life is based on this: that what we admire in others we want to do ourselves.” -Quintilian
“If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.” -Quintilian
“The learned understand the theory of art, the unlearned its pleasure.” -Quintilian: “De Institutione Oratoria”
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, also known simply as Quintilian or Quintillian or Quinctilian, was born in about C.E. 35 in Calagurris, Fibularia, Hispania (now Calahorra, La Rioja, Spain). He was an orator and rhetorician of ancient Rome. Marcus Fabius Quintilianus passed on in about C.E. 100.
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“Nature abhors a vacuum.” -François Rabelais
François Rabelais was born in 1494 in Chinon, Touraine, France. He became a monk, a satirist, and a physician. François Rabelais passed away on 9 April 1553 in Meudon, France.
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“And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become victims of our feelings, unless we can in some way command them.”-Anne Radcliffe
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“All you need lies within you.” -Mary Anne Radmacher
“As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.” -Mary Anne Radmacher
“As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.” -Mary Anne Radmacher
“Change of any sort requires courage.” -Mary Anne Radmacher
Mary Anne Radmacher was born on 28 June 1957 in Portland, Oregon, United States of America. She is a writer. Website: http://www.MaryAnneRadmacher.net/.
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“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.” -Gilda Radner
Gilda Radner was born in 1946. She was an American actress and comedienne. Gilda Radner passed on in 1989.
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“Faith and optimism are contagious.” -Thom S. Rainer
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“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not the desire to beat others.” -Ayn Rand
“Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.” -Ayn Rand
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received - hatred. The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered, and they paid. But they won.” -Ayn Rand: “The Fountainhead” (1943)
“To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.” -Ayn Rand
“Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating.” -Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand is a pseudonym of Alice O’Connor, who was born as Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum on 2 February 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. She became a playwright, a screenwriter, and a novelist. She is known as the author of “The Fountainhead” (1943) and “Atlas Shrugged” (1957), and as the creator of the Objectivism philosophy, which among other things advocated rational individualism and laissez-faire capitalism.. Ayn Rand passed on at 77 years of age on 6 March 1982 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“Never needlessly disturb a thing at rest.” -John Randolph
John Randolph was born in 1773. John Randolph passed on in 1833.
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“The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be the boss.” -Diane Ravitch
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“Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love, light, and compassion. Life will be beautiful.” -Amit Ray
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“Not a day passes over this Earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows.” -Charles Reed
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“If we all tried to make other people’s paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.” -Myrtle Reed
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“This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything.” -Scott Reed
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“Some people have such open minds that nothing stays in them long.” -J. Tudor Rees
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“It is worth noting that the people today who so vehemently wish to sweep religion from all public spaces and institutions are also the same people who consistently oppose freedom. They want only one God; the state, which of course they intend to run.” -Charley Reese: “Jefferson Speaks” (29 November 2002)
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“If you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves.” -R. Reese
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“You make a choice or set a goal and let people know about it. Then just getting started leads to the discovery of internal resources that help us to go further than we ever thought we could.” -Christopher Reeve: “Nothing Is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life” (2002)
Christopher D’Olier Reeve was born on 25 September 1952 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He became an actor. He is known for his portrayal of the fictional character Superman. Christopher D’Olier Reeve passed on at 52 years of age on 10 October 2004 in Mount Kisco, New York, United States of America.
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“You can if you think you can.” -George Reeves (similar quotation attributed to Henry Ford)
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“The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.” -Keanu Reeves
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“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.” -Orson Rega
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“Don’t overlook the obvious.” -Verna Reid
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“Our work-a-day lives are filled with opportunities to bless others. The power of a single glance or an encouraging smile must never be underestimated.” -G. Richard Reiger: as quoted in “Attitudes of Gratitude,” page 39
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“Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” -Francesca Reigler
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“I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.” -Jules Renard
“The truly free man is the one who will turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.” -Jules Renard
Pierre-Jules Renard, also known simply as Jules Renard, was born on 22 February 1864 in Châlons-du-Maine, Mayenne, France. He became a novelist and a dramatist. Pierre-Jules Renard passed on at 46 years of age on 22 May 1910 in Paris, France.
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“The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.” -Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier was born on 1 April 1858 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She became an essayist. Agnes Repplier passed on at 92 years of age on 15 December 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
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“The secret of my success is my ability to attract exceptionally able men and to treat them with so much respect that they never leave.” -Stanley Resor
Stanley Resor was born in 1879. Stanley Resor passed on in 1962.
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“I’m very determined and stubborn. There’s a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.” -Mary Lou Retton
Mary Lou ‘Loo’ Retton was born on 24 January 1968 in Fairmont, West Virginia, United States of America. She became an Olympic gymnast.
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“Never depend upon your genius: if you have talent, industry will improve it; if you have none, industry will supply the deficiency.” -Joshua Reynolds
Joshua Reynolds was born in 1723. He was an English painter. Joshua Reynolds passed on in 1792.
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“I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.” -Cecil Rhodes
Cecil John Rhodes was born on 5 July 1853 in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. He became a businessman, a diamond mining magnate, and a Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890 - 1896). Cecil John Rhodes passed on at 48 years of age on 26 March 1902 in Muizenberg, Cape Colony (now South Africa).
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“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.” -Anne Rice: “The Witching Hour” (1990)
Anne Rice was born in 1941. She is an American writer.
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“It doesn’t matter where you came from. It only matters where you’re going.” -Condoleezza Rice
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“Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.” -Grantland Rice
Henry Grantland ‘Grantland’ Rice was born in 1880. He was an American journalist and sports writer. Henry Grantland ‘Grantland’ Rice passed on in 1954.
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“Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.” -Norman B. Rice
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“One of the great lessons I’ve learned in athletics is that you’ve got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you’ve got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.” -Bob Richards
“You are what you think you are.” -Bob Richards
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“All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.” -Mary Caroline Richards: “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person” (2011), page 41
“Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.” -Mary Caroline Richards: “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person” (2011), page 8
Mary Caroline Richards was born in 1916. She was an American teacher, poet, and potter. Mary Caroline Richards passed on in 1999.
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“You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.” -Stephen Richards
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Big whorls have little whorls
Which feed on their velocity,
And little whorls have lesser whorls
And so on to viscosity.
-Lewis Fry Richardson
Lewis Fry Richardson was born on 11 October 1881 in Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland, Scotland. He became a mathematician, a physicist, and a psychologist. Lewis Fry Richardson passed on at 71 years of age on 30 September 1953 in Kilmun, Argyllshire, Scotland.
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“A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.” -Jean Paul Richter
“A scholar knows no boredom.” -Jean Paul Richter
“Cheerfulness is the atmosphere under which all things thrive.” -Jean Paul Richter
“No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.” -Jean Paul Richter
“Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.” -Jean Paul Richter: “Titan” (1803)
“Women cure all their sorrows by talking.” -Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter is a pseudonym of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, who was born on 21 March 1763 in Wunsiedel, Holy Roman Empire (now Wunsiedel, Germany). He became a humor novelist. Johann Paul Friedrich Richter passed on at 62 years of age on 14 November 1825 in Bayreuth, German Confederation (now Bayreuth, Germany).
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“The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality, and Independence.” -Edward Rickenbacker
“Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.” -Edward Rickenbacker
Edward Vernon ‘Eddie’ Rickenbacker was born on 8 October 1890 in Columbus, Ohio, United States of America. He became an American fighter pilot with the rank of captain during World War 1, and later a businessman. Edward Vernon ‘Eddie’ Rickenbacker passed on at 82 years of age on 23 July 1973 in Zürich, Switzerland.
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“Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.” -Al Ries
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“Have you ever watched a stone cutter at work? He will hammer at a rock for perhaps 100 times without a crack showing on it. Then, at the 101st blow, it will split in two. It is not that blow alone which accomplished the result, but the 100 others that went before it as well.” -Jacob A. Riis
“The more I live the more I think that humor is the saving sense.” -Jacob A. Riis
“When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two and I know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone before.” -Jacob A. Riis
Jacob August Riis was born in 1849. He was a photographer and a reporter. Jacob August Riis passed on in 1914.
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“Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.” -James Whitcomb Riley
James Whitcomb Riley was born on 7 October 1849 in a two-room cabin in Greenfield, Indiana, United States of America. He became a writer and a poet. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that he wrote, the majority are in dialect. His best-known works include “Little Orphant Annie” and “The Raggedy Man.” He served on the staff of the “Indianapolis Journal” newspaper. James Whitcomb Riley passed on at 66 years of age on 22 July 1916 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America.
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“Don’t let other people tell you what you want.” -Pat Riley
“Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.” -Pat Riley
“Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.” -Pat Riley
“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.” -Pat Riley
“Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won’t get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.” -Pat Riley
Pat Riley is a basketball coach.
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“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate the last test and proof the work for which all other work is but preparation.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, also known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was born on 4 December 1875 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He became a poet and a novelist. René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke passed on at 51 years of age on 29 December 1926 in Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland.
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“Believe it or not.” -R. L. Ripley
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“You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.” -Irvine Robbins
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“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” -Cavett Robert
Cavett Robert was born 14 November 1907 in Starkville, Mississippi, United States of America. In 1973, he founded the National Speakers Association. Cavett Robert passed on at 89 years of age on 15 September 1997.
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“Seek your joy in what you give and not in what you get.” -Evan Roberts
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“There is nothing wrong with dreaming, so let the dreamers dream on. But for those who are realistic about making money and becoming financially secure, you have to set realistic goals and work towards meeting those goals.” -John M. Roberts
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“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” -Nora Roberts
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“Few men suspect how much mere talk fritters away spiritual energy - that which should be spent in action, spends itself in words. Hence he who restrains that love of talk lays up a fund of spiritual strength.” -F. W. Robertson
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“The penalty of leadership is loneliness.” -H. Wheeler Robinson
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“Shared grief diminishes, but shared joy increases.” -Spider Robinson
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“To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.” -Sugar Ray Robinson
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“Some people think it’s holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it’s letting go.” -Sylvia Robinson
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“There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet; but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.” -Victor Robinson
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“There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely muscles and vessel that are stressed grow and increase in capacity. This same basic law also applies to spiritual and intellectual growth and can be achieved only by continual nourishment and effort in day-to-day living.” -Clarence F. Robison
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“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.” -David Rockefeller
David Rockefeller, Senior was born on 12 June 1915 in New York City, New York, United States of America He became a banker, a public servant, and a philanthropist. He is known as a chairman and chief executive officer of the Chase Manhattan Corporation. David Rockefeller, Senior passed on at 101 years of age on 20 March 2017 in Pacantico Hills, New York, United States of America.
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“I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common, not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.” -John D. Rockefeller, Junior
John Davison Rockefeller, Junior was born on 29 January 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. He became a financier and a philanthropist. John Davison Rockefeller, Junior passed on at 86 years of age on 11 May 1960 in Tucson, Arizona, United States of America.
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“I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere moneymaking has never been my goal. I had an ambition to build.” -John D. Rockefeller, Senior: as quoted in Allen Nevins: “Study in Power: John D. Rockefeller,” volume 1
“I would rather earn one percent off one hundred people’s efforts than one hundred percent of my own efforts.” -John D. Rockefeller: “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth” (3 March 2015)
“It requires a better type of mind to seek out and to support or to create the new than to follow the worn paths of accepted success.” -John D. Rockefeller: “Random Reminiscences of Men and Events” (1909), chapter VI
“The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the Sun.” -John D. Rockefeller
“To Others.” -John D. Rockefeller: replying to the question as to what he attributed his success
“Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.” -John D. Rockefeller: as attributed in Peter Collier and David Horowitz: “The Rockefellers” (1976)
John Davison Rockefeller, Senior was born on 8 July 1839. He was an American industrialist and philanthropist. In 1870, he co-founded the Standard Oil Company. John Davison Rockefeller, Senior passed on at 97 years of age on 23 May 1937.
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You got to have a dream
If you don’t have a dream,
How you gonna have a dream come true?
-Rogers and Hammerstein
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“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” -Rikki Rogers
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“Within most human beings lies a great resource normally untapped, but there, waiting to be summoned up in moments of stress. Call it strength, courage - whatever it is, it pulls us through against the longest odds.” -Ruth Roman: commenting after the rescue at sea of herself and her son, following the sinking of the ship “Andrea Doria”
Ruth Roman was born in 1922. She was an American actress. Ruth Roman passed on in 1999.
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“The quickest way to become an old dog is to stop learning new tricks.” -John Rooney
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“At the right time, in the right light, everything is extraordinary.” -Aaron Rose
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“Success is not counted by how high you have climbed but by how many you brought with you.” -Will Rose
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“Great nations and great empires only live so long as they are thrifty; the moment they begin to waste or disburse their resources, the day of their end is at hand.” -Lord Rosebery
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“Anything is possible but only a few things actually happen.” -Richard Rosen
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“Money doesn’t bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness brings money.” -Sam Rosen
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“Details are all there are.” -Maezumi Roshi
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“Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.” -Diana Ross
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“All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.” -Ruth Ross
“There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes; it’s what we do with them that’s important.” -Ruth Ross
Ruth Miriam Ross, also known as Ruth Miriam Burnard, was born as Ruth Miriam Guscott in 1920 in Wanganui, Wanganui, New Zealand. She became a historian. Ruth Miriam Ross passed on at about 62 years of age 30 August 1982.
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“A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.” -Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand was born on 30 October 1894. He was a French biologist and philosopher. Jean Rostand passed on at 82 years of age on 3 September 1977.
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“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” -Leo Rosten
“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.” -Leo Rosten
Leo Rosten was born in 1908. He was a Polish-born American writer and social scientist. Leo Rosten passed on in 1997.
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“There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner, but there is really only one way to be a loser, and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure.” -Kyle Rote, Junior
Kyle Rote, Junior is a soccer player.
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“If you’re unwilling to leave someplace you’ve outgrown, you will never reach your full potential. To be the best, you have to constantly be challenging yourself, raising the bar, pushing the limits of what you can do. Don’t stand still, leap forward.” -Ronda Rousey
Ronda Rousey is an American professional wrestler.
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“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” [translation to English]
“Le monde réel àl ses bornes; the monde imaginaire est infini.” [original French]
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born on 28 June 1712 in Geneva, Republic of Geneva (now Geneva, Switzerland). He became a political theorist, an essayist, and a music composer. He is known for his book, “Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau” (1782). Jean-Jacques Rousseau passed on at 66 years of age on 2 July 1778 in Ermenonville, Kingdom of France.
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“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower, that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.” -Joseph Roux: “Meditations of a Parish Priest” (1866), Part 9, LIV
Joseph Roux was born on 19 April 1834. He was a French Catholic parish priest, a poet, and a philologist. Joseph Roux passed on in February 1905.
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“I’m looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.” -Mike Rowe
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“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” -J. K. Rowling: “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” (1997)
J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith are pseudonyms of Joanne Kathleen ‘Jo’ Rowling, who was born on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England. She is a novelist and a screenwriter known as the author of the “Harry Potter” children’s books.
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“There is no disgrace to get knocked down - so long as you get back up.” -Darell Royal
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“One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we act because of the way we feel, we often feel because of the way we act. So an almost uncanny way to change your feelings is to act the way you wish you felt.” -Gretchen Rubin
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“I had a series of childhood illnesses . . . scarlet fever . . . pneumonia . . . Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn’t like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.” -Wilma Rudolph (1940 - 1994): as quoted in “USA Today” (6 August 1987) newspaper
“Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.” -Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Rudolph was born in 1940. She was a professional athlete. Wilma Rudolph passed on in 1994.
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“Always do your best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.” -Don Miguel Ruiz
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“Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.” -Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rush was born in 1746. Benjamin Rush passed on in 1813.
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“If you don’t pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes, and the first thing you know, the periphery is the center.” -Dean Rusk
Dean Rusk was born in 1909. He was an American politician. Dean Rusk passed on in 1994.
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“Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.” -Bertrand Russell
“I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a genius I feel quite sure that joy and happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet, when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite; joy and happiness is just around the corner.” -Bertrand Russell
“Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.” -Bertrand Russell
“One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” -Bertrand Russell: “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1914 - 1944” (1968), volume II, chapter 5
“One should respect public opinion insofar as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.” -Bertrand Russell
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” -Bertrand Russell
“There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.” -Bertrand Russell
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” -Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell was born in Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales on 18 May 1872. He became a mathematician, a logician, a historian, a philosopher, an essayist, and a social critic. He taught at leading British and American universities. Bertrand Arthur William Russell passed on at 97 years of age on 2 February 1970 in Pourhyndendraeth, Meriohah, England.
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“You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.” -Charles M. Russell
Charles M. Russell was born in 1864. Charles M. Russell passed on in 1926.
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“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” -Babe Ruth
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” -Babe Ruth
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” -Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth was a baseball player.
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“What creates the beauty of the world is the love we have for it.” -Roma Ryan
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“Nature abhors a vacuum.” -François Rabelais
François Rabelais was born in 1494 in Chinon, Touraine, France. He became a monk, a satirist, and a physician. François Rabelais passed away on 9 April 1553 in Meudon, France.
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“And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become victims of our feelings, unless we can in some way command them.”-Anne Radcliffe
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“All you need lies within you.” -Mary Anne Radmacher
“As we light a path for others, we naturally light our own way.” -Mary Anne Radmacher
“As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.” -Mary Anne Radmacher
“Change of any sort requires courage.” -Mary Anne Radmacher
Mary Anne Radmacher was born on 28 June 1957 in Portland, Oregon, United States of America. She is a writer. Website: http://www.MaryAnneRadmacher.net/.
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“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.” -Gilda Radner
Gilda Radner was born in 1946. She was an American actress and comedienne. Gilda Radner passed on in 1989.
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“Faith and optimism are contagious.” -Thom S. Rainer
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“A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not the desire to beat others.” -Ayn Rand
“Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.” -Ayn Rand
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received - hatred. The great creators - the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors - stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered, and they paid. But they won.” -Ayn Rand: “The Fountainhead” (1943)
“To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it.” -Ayn Rand
“Whether it’s a symphony or a coal mine, all work is an act of creating.” -Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand is a pseudonym of Alice O’Connor, who was born as Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum on 2 February 1905 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. She became a playwright, a screenwriter, and a novelist. She is known as the author of “The Fountainhead” (1943) and “Atlas Shrugged” (1957), and as the creator of the Objectivism philosophy, which among other things advocated rational individualism and laissez-faire capitalism.. Ayn Rand passed on at 77 years of age on 6 March 1982 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“Never needlessly disturb a thing at rest.” -John Randolph
John Randolph was born in 1773. John Randolph passed on in 1833.
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“The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be the boss.” -Diane Ravitch
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“Beautify your inner dialogue. Beautify your inner world with love, light, and compassion. Life will be beautiful.” -Amit Ray
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“Not a day passes over this Earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows.” -Charles Reed
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“If we all tried to make other people’s paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.” -Myrtle Reed
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“This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything.” -Scott Reed
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“Some people have such open minds that nothing stays in them long.” -J. Tudor Rees
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“It is worth noting that the people today who so vehemently wish to sweep religion from all public spaces and institutions are also the same people who consistently oppose freedom. They want only one God; the state, which of course they intend to run.” -Charley Reese: “Jefferson Speaks” (29 November 2002)
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“If you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves.” -R. Reese
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“You make a choice or set a goal and let people know about it. Then just getting started leads to the discovery of internal resources that help us to go further than we ever thought we could.” -Christopher Reeve: “Nothing Is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life” (2002)
Christopher D’Olier Reeve was born on 25 September 1952 in New York City, New York, United States of America. He became an actor. He is known for his portrayal of the fictional character Superman. Christopher D’Olier Reeve passed on at 52 years of age on 10 October 2004 in Mount Kisco, New York, United States of America.
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“You can if you think you can.” -George Reeves (similar quotation attributed to Henry Ford)
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“The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.” -Keanu Reeves
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“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.” -Orson Rega
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“Don’t overlook the obvious.” -Verna Reid
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“Our work-a-day lives are filled with opportunities to bless others. The power of a single glance or an encouraging smile must never be underestimated.” -G. Richard Reiger: as quoted in “Attitudes of Gratitude,” page 39
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“Happiness is an attitude. We either make ourselves miserable, or happy and strong. The amount of work is the same.” -Francesca Reigler
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“I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.” -Jules Renard
“The truly free man is the one who will turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.” -Jules Renard
Pierre-Jules Renard, also known simply as Jules Renard, was born on 22 February 1864 in Châlons-du-Maine, Mayenne, France. He became a novelist and a dramatist. Pierre-Jules Renard passed on at 46 years of age on 22 May 1910 in Paris, France.
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“The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.” -Agnes Repplier
Agnes Repplier was born on 1 April 1858 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. She became an essayist. Agnes Repplier passed on at 92 years of age on 15 December 1950 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
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“The secret of my success is my ability to attract exceptionally able men and to treat them with so much respect that they never leave.” -Stanley Resor
Stanley Resor was born in 1879. Stanley Resor passed on in 1962.
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“I’m very determined and stubborn. There’s a desire in me that makes me want to do more and more, and to do it right. Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and to keep it lit.” -Mary Lou Retton
Mary Lou ‘Loo’ Retton was born on 24 January 1968 in Fairmont, West Virginia, United States of America. She became an Olympic gymnast.
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“Never depend upon your genius: if you have talent, industry will improve it; if you have none, industry will supply the deficiency.” -Joshua Reynolds
Joshua Reynolds was born in 1723. He was an English painter. Joshua Reynolds passed on in 1792.
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“I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.” -Cecil Rhodes
Cecil John Rhodes was born on 5 July 1853 in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, England. He became a businessman, a diamond mining magnate, and a Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890 - 1896). Cecil John Rhodes passed on at 48 years of age on 26 March 1902 in Muizenberg, Cape Colony (now South Africa).
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“Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.” -Anne Rice: “The Witching Hour” (1990)
Anne Rice was born in 1941. She is an American writer.
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“It doesn’t matter where you came from. It only matters where you’re going.” -Condoleezza Rice
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“Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.” -Grantland Rice
Henry Grantland ‘Grantland’ Rice was born in 1880. He was an American journalist and sports writer. Henry Grantland ‘Grantland’ Rice passed on in 1954.
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“Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.” -Norman B. Rice
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“One of the great lessons I’ve learned in athletics is that you’ve got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you’ve got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.” -Bob Richards
“You are what you think you are.” -Bob Richards
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“All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.” -Mary Caroline Richards: “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person” (2011), page 41
“Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.” -Mary Caroline Richards: “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person” (2011), page 8
Mary Caroline Richards was born in 1916. She was an American teacher, poet, and potter. Mary Caroline Richards passed on in 1999.
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“You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of your own making.” -Stephen Richards
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Big whorls have little whorls
Which feed on their velocity,
And little whorls have lesser whorls
And so on to viscosity.
-Lewis Fry Richardson
Lewis Fry Richardson was born on 11 October 1881 in Newcastle on Tyne, Northumberland, Scotland. He became a mathematician, a physicist, and a psychologist. Lewis Fry Richardson passed on at 71 years of age on 30 September 1953 in Kilmun, Argyllshire, Scotland.
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“A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.” -Jean Paul Richter
“A scholar knows no boredom.” -Jean Paul Richter
“Cheerfulness is the atmosphere under which all things thrive.” -Jean Paul Richter
“No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.” -Jean Paul Richter
“Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face.” -Jean Paul Richter: “Titan” (1803)
“Women cure all their sorrows by talking.” -Jean Paul Richter
Jean Paul Richter is a pseudonym of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, who was born on 21 March 1763 in Wunsiedel, Holy Roman Empire (now Wunsiedel, Germany). He became a humor novelist. Johann Paul Friedrich Richter passed on at 62 years of age on 14 November 1825 in Bayreuth, German Confederation (now Bayreuth, Germany).
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“The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality, and Independence.” -Edward Rickenbacker
“Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.” -Edward Rickenbacker
Edward Vernon ‘Eddie’ Rickenbacker was born on 8 October 1890 in Columbus, Ohio, United States of America. He became an American fighter pilot with the rank of captain during World War 1, and later a businessman. Edward Vernon ‘Eddie’ Rickenbacker passed on at 82 years of age on 23 July 1973 in Zürich, Switzerland.
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“Today, communication itself is the problem. We have become the world’s first overcommunicated society. Each year we send more and receive less.” -Al Ries
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“Have you ever watched a stone cutter at work? He will hammer at a rock for perhaps 100 times without a crack showing on it. Then, at the 101st blow, it will split in two. It is not that blow alone which accomplished the result, but the 100 others that went before it as well.” -Jacob A. Riis
“The more I live the more I think that humor is the saving sense.” -Jacob A. Riis
“When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two and I know it was not that blow that did it but all that had gone before.” -Jacob A. Riis
Jacob August Riis was born in 1849. He was a photographer and a reporter. Jacob August Riis passed on in 1914.
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“Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.” -James Whitcomb Riley
James Whitcomb Riley was born on 7 October 1849 in a two-room cabin in Greenfield, Indiana, United States of America. He became a writer and a poet. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that he wrote, the majority are in dialect. His best-known works include “Little Orphant Annie” and “The Raggedy Man.” He served on the staff of the “Indianapolis Journal” newspaper. James Whitcomb Riley passed on at 66 years of age on 22 July 1916 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America.
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“Don’t let other people tell you what you want.” -Pat Riley
“Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.” -Pat Riley
“Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude.” -Pat Riley
“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.” -Pat Riley
“Shoulda, coulda, and woulda won’t get it done. In attacking adversity, only a positive attitude, alertness, and regrouping to basics can launch a comeback.” -Pat Riley
Pat Riley is a basketball coach.
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“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate the last test and proof the work for which all other work is but preparation.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, also known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was born on 4 December 1875 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. He became a poet and a novelist. René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke passed on at 51 years of age on 29 December 1926 in Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland.
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“Believe it or not.” -R. L. Ripley
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“You look at any giant corporation, and I mean the biggies, and they all started with a guy with an idea, doing it well.” -Irvine Robbins
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“Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.” -Cavett Robert
Cavett Robert was born 14 November 1907 in Starkville, Mississippi, United States of America. In 1973, he founded the National Speakers Association. Cavett Robert passed on at 89 years of age on 15 September 1997.
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“Seek your joy in what you give and not in what you get.” -Evan Roberts
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“There is nothing wrong with dreaming, so let the dreamers dream on. But for those who are realistic about making money and becoming financially secure, you have to set realistic goals and work towards meeting those goals.” -John M. Roberts
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“If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.” -Nora Roberts
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“Few men suspect how much mere talk fritters away spiritual energy - that which should be spent in action, spends itself in words. Hence he who restrains that love of talk lays up a fund of spiritual strength.” -F. W. Robertson
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“The penalty of leadership is loneliness.” -H. Wheeler Robinson
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“Shared grief diminishes, but shared joy increases.” -Spider Robinson
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“To be a champ, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.” -Sugar Ray Robinson
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“Some people think it’s holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it’s letting go.” -Sylvia Robinson
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“There is much satisfaction in work well done; praise is sweet; but there can be no happiness equal to the joy of finding a heart that understands.” -Victor Robinson
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“There is a fundamental law that the tissue of the human body will waste away through idleness and disuse. Conversely muscles and vessel that are stressed grow and increase in capacity. This same basic law also applies to spiritual and intellectual growth and can be achieved only by continual nourishment and effort in day-to-day living.” -Clarence F. Robison
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“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.” -David Rockefeller
David Rockefeller, Senior was born on 12 June 1915 in New York City, New York, United States of America He became a banker, a public servant, and a philanthropist. He is known as a chairman and chief executive officer of the Chase Manhattan Corporation. David Rockefeller, Senior passed on at 101 years of age on 20 March 2017 in Pacantico Hills, New York, United States of America.
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“I have long been profoundly convinced that in the very nature of things, employers and employees are partners, not enemies; that their interests are common, not opposed; that in the long run the success of each is dependent upon the success of the other.” -John D. Rockefeller, Junior
John Davison Rockefeller, Junior was born on 29 January 1874 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America. He became a financier and a philanthropist. John Davison Rockefeller, Junior passed on at 86 years of age on 11 May 1960 in Tucson, Arizona, United States of America.
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“I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere moneymaking has never been my goal. I had an ambition to build.” -John D. Rockefeller, Senior: as quoted in Allen Nevins: “Study in Power: John D. Rockefeller,” volume 1
“I would rather earn one percent off one hundred people’s efforts than one hundred percent of my own efforts.” -John D. Rockefeller: “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth” (3 March 2015)
“It requires a better type of mind to seek out and to support or to create the new than to follow the worn paths of accepted success.” -John D. Rockefeller: “Random Reminiscences of Men and Events” (1909), chapter VI
“The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the Sun.” -John D. Rockefeller
“To Others.” -John D. Rockefeller: replying to the question as to what he attributed his success
“Try to turn every disaster into an opportunity.” -John D. Rockefeller: as attributed in Peter Collier and David Horowitz: “The Rockefellers” (1976)
John Davison Rockefeller, Senior was born on 8 July 1839. He was an American industrialist and philanthropist. In 1870, he co-founded the Standard Oil Company. John Davison Rockefeller, Senior passed on at 97 years of age on 23 May 1937.
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You got to have a dream
If you don’t have a dream,
How you gonna have a dream come true?
-Rogers and Hammerstein
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“Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.” -Rikki Rogers
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“Within most human beings lies a great resource normally untapped, but there, waiting to be summoned up in moments of stress. Call it strength, courage - whatever it is, it pulls us through against the longest odds.” -Ruth Roman: commenting after the rescue at sea of herself and her son, following the sinking of the ship “Andrea Doria”
Ruth Roman was born in 1922. She was an American actress. Ruth Roman passed on in 1999.
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“The quickest way to become an old dog is to stop learning new tricks.” -John Rooney
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“At the right time, in the right light, everything is extraordinary.” -Aaron Rose
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“Success is not counted by how high you have climbed but by how many you brought with you.” -Will Rose
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“Great nations and great empires only live so long as they are thrifty; the moment they begin to waste or disburse their resources, the day of their end is at hand.” -Lord Rosebery
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“Anything is possible but only a few things actually happen.” -Richard Rosen
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“Money doesn’t bring happiness and creativity. Your creativity and happiness brings money.” -Sam Rosen
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“Details are all there are.” -Maezumi Roshi
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“Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.” -Diana Ross
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“All prosperity begins in the mind and is dependent only upon the full use of our creative imagination.” -Ruth Ross
“There are only three colors, ten digits, and seven notes; it’s what we do with them that’s important.” -Ruth Ross
Ruth Miriam Ross, also known as Ruth Miriam Burnard, was born as Ruth Miriam Guscott in 1920 in Wanganui, Wanganui, New Zealand. She became a historian. Ruth Miriam Ross passed on at about 62 years of age 30 August 1982.
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“A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.” -Jean Rostand
Jean Rostand was born on 30 October 1894. He was a French biologist and philosopher. Jean Rostand passed on at 82 years of age on 3 September 1977.
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“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.” -Leo Rosten
“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.” -Leo Rosten
Leo Rosten was born in 1908. He was a Polish-born American writer and social scientist. Leo Rosten passed on in 1997.
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“There is no doubt in my mind that there are many ways to be a winner, but there is really only one way to be a loser, and that is to fail and not look beyond the failure.” -Kyle Rote, Junior
Kyle Rote, Junior is a soccer player.
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“If you’re unwilling to leave someplace you’ve outgrown, you will never reach your full potential. To be the best, you have to constantly be challenging yourself, raising the bar, pushing the limits of what you can do. Don’t stand still, leap forward.” -Ronda Rousey
Ronda Rousey is an American professional wrestler.
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“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” [translation to English]
“Le monde réel àl ses bornes; the monde imaginaire est infini.” [original French]
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born on 28 June 1712 in Geneva, Republic of Geneva (now Geneva, Switzerland). He became a political theorist, an essayist, and a music composer. He is known for his book, “Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau” (1782). Jean-Jacques Rousseau passed on at 66 years of age on 2 July 1778 in Ermenonville, Kingdom of France.
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“We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower, that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.” -Joseph Roux: “Meditations of a Parish Priest” (1866), Part 9, LIV
Joseph Roux was born on 19 April 1834. He was a French Catholic parish priest, a poet, and a philologist. Joseph Roux passed on in February 1905.
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“I’m looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.” -Mike Rowe
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“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.” -J. K. Rowling: “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” (1997)
J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith are pseudonyms of Joanne Kathleen ‘Jo’ Rowling, who was born on 31 July 1965 in Yate, Gloucestershire, England. She is a novelist and a screenwriter known as the author of the “Harry Potter” children’s books.
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“There is no disgrace to get knocked down - so long as you get back up.” -Darell Royal
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“One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we act because of the way we feel, we often feel because of the way we act. So an almost uncanny way to change your feelings is to act the way you wish you felt.” -Gretchen Rubin
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“I had a series of childhood illnesses . . . scarlet fever . . . pneumonia . . . Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn’t like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.” -Wilma Rudolph (1940 - 1994): as quoted in “USA Today” (6 August 1987) newspaper
“Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.” -Wilma Rudolph
Wilma Rudolph was born in 1940. She was a professional athlete. Wilma Rudolph passed on in 1994.
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“Always do your best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.” -Don Miguel Ruiz
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“Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.” -Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rush was born in 1746. Benjamin Rush passed on in 1813.
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“If you don’t pay attention to the periphery, the periphery changes, and the first thing you know, the periphery is the center.” -Dean Rusk
Dean Rusk was born in 1909. He was an American politician. Dean Rusk passed on in 1994.
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“Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.” -Bertrand Russell
“I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a genius I feel quite sure that joy and happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet, when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite; joy and happiness is just around the corner.” -Bertrand Russell
“Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.” -Bertrand Russell
“One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” -Bertrand Russell: “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell: 1914 - 1944” (1968), volume II, chapter 5
“One should respect public opinion insofar as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.” -Bertrand Russell
“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” -Bertrand Russell
“There are certain things that our age needs. It needs, above all, courageous hope and the impulse to creativeness.” -Bertrand Russell
“To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” -Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Arthur William Russell was born in Trelleck, Monmouthshire, Wales on 18 May 1872. He became a mathematician, a logician, a historian, a philosopher, an essayist, and a social critic. He taught at leading British and American universities. Bertrand Arthur William Russell passed on at 97 years of age on 2 February 1970 in Pourhyndendraeth, Meriohah, England.
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“You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.” -Charles M. Russell
Charles M. Russell was born in 1864. Charles M. Russell passed on in 1926.
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“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” -Babe Ruth
“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” -Babe Ruth
“Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.” -Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth was a baseball player.
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“What creates the beauty of the world is the love we have for it.” -Roma Ryan
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“I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.” -Jonas Salk
“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.” -Jonas Salk
Jonas Edward Salk was born in 1914. Jonas Edward Salk passed on in 1995.
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“I want to do the right thing, but often I don’t know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at tasks undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don’t worry about my destiny.” -Carl Sandburg
“Nothing happens unless first a dream.” -Carl Sandburg: “Washington Monument by Night”
Carl Augustus Sandburg was born on 6 January 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois, United States of America. He became a poet, a novelist, a folklorist, a balladeer, and a historian. Carl Augustus Sandburg passed on at 89 years of age on 22 July 1967 in Flat Rock, North Carolina, United States of America.
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“A man’s hatred of his own condition no more helps to improve it than hatred of other people tends to improve them.” -George Santayana
Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, also known as George Santayana, was born on 16 December 1863 in Madrid, Spain. He became an American philosopher, critic, essayist, novelist, and poet. Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás passed on at 88 years of age on 26 September 1952 in Rome, Italy.
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“Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know . . . One who doesn’t try cannot fail and become wise.” -William Saroyan
William Saroyan was born in 1908. He became a novelist, a short story writer, and a playwright. William Saroyan passed on in 1981.
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“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.” -Virginia Satir
“We must not allow other peoples’ limited perceptions to define us.” -Virginia Satir
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“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” -Jean Paul Sartre
“What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was born on 21 June 1905 in Paris, France. He became a novelist, a biographer, a dramatist, a screenwriter, and a literary critic. Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre passed on at 74 years of age on 15 April 1980 in Paris, France.
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“I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.” -Diane Sawyer
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“Trouble shared is trouble halved.” -Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy Leigh Sayers was born in 1893. She was married to Oswald Arthur Fleming in 1926. She became a novelist and a detective fiction writer. She is known as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey. In 1947, she stopped writing detective novels and concentrated on translating Dante and lecturing on philosophy, medieval literature, and religion. Dorothy Leigh Sayers passed on in 1957.
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“Life is a process. We are a process. The Universe is a process.” -Anne Wilson Schaef
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“It is so important not to waste what is precious by spending all one’s time and emotion on fretting or complaining over what one does not have.” -Edith Schaeffer
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“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
“What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer was born on 22 February 1788 in Danzig, Germany. He became a philosopher. He is known for his book, “The World as Will and Representation.” Arthur Schopenhauer passed on at 72 years of age on 21 September 1860 in Main, Germany.
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“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” -Howard Schultz
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“If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings.” -Susan Polis Schultz
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“A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.” -Charles M. Schwab
“I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. There is nothing that so kills the ambitions of a man as criticisms from his superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a man incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. If anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.” -Charles M. Schwab
“I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.” -Charles M. Schwab
“Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business.” -Charles M. Schwab
“The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others.” -Charles M. Schwab
“The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.” -Charles Schwab
Charles M. Schwab was born in 1862. He was an American industrialist and businessman. Charles M. Schwab passed on in 1939.
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“I read a lot of biographies of people who had accomplished great things, people such as John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Charles M. Schwab, the steel magnate (no relation), and many others. I saw the importance of determination, or passion and fighting hard for what you believed in, and the importance of optimism and believing good things are possible. All the people I read about had a maniacal focus on growth.” -Charles Schwab: “Invested - Changing Forever The Way Americans Invest” (2019)
“Recognizing a business opportunity is only one part of succeeding as an entrepreneur. The key is acting on your business insight and following through . . . A business like ours comes down to two things; a big idea that makes a difference in people’s lives, and people who believe in it and will see it through to fruition day after day, despite what may get in the way. You have to get both right.” -Charles Schwab: “Invested - Changing Forever The Way Americans Invest” (2019)
“To this day I encourage young executives to get training in public speaking. No matter how good they are, mastering those moments in front of an audience is crucial to leading others, and it rarely comes naturally.” -Charles Schwab: “Invested - Changing Forever The Way Americans Invest” (2019)
Charles Robert Schwab was born on 29 July 1937 in Sacramento, California, United States of America. He is an investment and finance executive. He is known as the founder of the Charles Schwab Corporation.
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“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe one hundred percent.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“You cannot help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.” -H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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“The spirit of man is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” -Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott was born in 1868. He became a Captain. Robert Falcon Scott passed on in 1912.
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“Success depends above all, upon people. Build relationships, teams, partnerships - and motivate people to contribute. Cultivate leadership, creativity, excellence. Listen; seek new ideas and advice.” -Ruth Scott
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“The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.” -Walter Scott
Walter Scott was born in 1771. Walter Scott passed on in 1832.
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“As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.” -Zachary Scott
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“A writer who says there are no truths, or that all truth is merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.” -Roger Scruton: “Modern Philosophy” (1994)
Roger Vernon Scruton was born on 27 February 1944 in Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He became a writer. Roger Vernon Scruton passed on at 75 years of age on 12 January 2020 in Brinkworth, Wiltshire, England.
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“Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?” -Frank Scully
Frank Scully is an American journalist.
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“The only certainty is that nothing is certain.” -Gaius Plinius Secundus
“True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.” -Gaius Plinius Secundus
Gaius Plinius Secundus, also known as Pliny the Elder, was born in C.E. 23 or C.E. 24 in Comum, Italy. He was a statesman and scholar of ancient Rome. He is known as the author of “Naturalis Historia.” Gaius Plinius Secundus passed on at 55 years of age on C.E. 25 August 79.
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“Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.” -Maurice Seitter
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“This iz Chief Inspector Clouseau speaking on the pheaun.” -Richard Henry Peter Sellers
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“One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one’s life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.” -Hannah Senesh
“There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind.” -Hannah Senesh
Hannah Senesh was born in 1921. He was a poet, a playwright, and a paratrooper. Hannah Senesh passed on in 1944.
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“All great things have small beginnings.” -Peter Senge
“The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.” -Peter Senge
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“We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.” -Julia Seton: as quoted in “Forbes” (1965)
Julia Seton was born in 1889. She became a writer. Julia Seton passed on in 1975.
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“Give away what you most want to receive.” -Robin Sharma
“Ideas don’t work for people unwilling to do the work.” -Robin Sharma
“My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I’ve spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.” -Robin S. Sharma
“The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special.” -Robin S. Sharma
“We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” -Robin Sharma
Robin Sharma was born in 1965.
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“If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.” -Pam Shaw
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“The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.” -Gail Sheehy
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“If it be true that the world has lost its respect for authority, it is only because it lost it first in the home.” -Fulton J. Sheen: “On Being Human” (1982)
Fulton John Sheen was born as Peter John Sheen on 8 May 1895 in El Paso, Illinois, United States of America. He was an American bishop in the Catholic Church, known for his preaching and his work on television and radio. Fulton John Sheen passed on at 84 years of age on 9 December 1979 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“Just as there are three R’s there are also three A’s of business life. They are: Ability, Ambition, and Attitude. Ability establishes what a worker does and will bring him a paycheck. Ambition determines how much he does and will get him a raise. Attitude guarantees how well he does.” -Wilbert E. Sheer
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“There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.” -W. L. Sheldon (1897)
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“Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you’re gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.” -Barbara Sher
“You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.” -Barbara Sher
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“I presume you’re mortal and may err.” -James Shirley
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“All the wild ideas of unbalanced agitators the world over, in their ignorant and pitiable quest for happiness through revolution, confiscation of property, and crime cannot overthrow the eternal truth that the one route to happiness through property or government is over the broad and open highway of service. And service always means industry, thrift, respect for authority, and recognition of the rights of others.” -W. G. Sibley
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“Either I will find a way, or I will make one.” -Philip Sidney
Philip Sidney was born in 1554. He was an English courtier, writer, poet, and soldier. Philip Sidney passed on at 31 years of age in 1586.
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“The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.” -Igor Sikorsky
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“Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. For whenever excellence is recounted, it is increased.” -Sterling W. Sill
Sterling Welling Sill was born in 1903. He became a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sterling Welling Sill passed on in 1994.
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“I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn’t matter.” -Beverly Sills
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” -Beverly Sills
Beverly Sills is a pseudonym of Belle Miriam ‘Bubbles’ Silverman, who was born on 25 May 1929 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. She became a soprano opera singer. Bell Miriam ‘Bubbles’ Silverman passed on at 78 years of age on 2 July 2007 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.” -Georges Simenon
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon lived in Paris, France. He became a crime novelist, and wrote under 17 pseudonyms.
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“He that knows the world will not be bashful; he that knows himself will not be impudent.” -C. Simmons
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“Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in the little things.” -Charles Simmons
Charles Simmons was born in 1798. Charles Simmons passed on in 1856.
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“I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living his life, and who had good friends, a fine family. I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.” -Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra was born in 1915. He was an American singer and actor. Frank Sinatra passed on in 1998.
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“Fight against something and we focus on the thing we hate. Fight for something and we focus on the thing we love.” -Simon Sinek
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“Do what you love and the money will follow.” -Marsha Sinetar
“You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don’t do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.” -Marsha Sinetar
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“God sends burdens, and shoulders, too.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer: “Gimpel the Fool”
“We know what a person thinks, not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer: as quoted in “New York Times Magazine” (26 November 1978)
Isaac Bashevis Singer was born as Izaak Zynger on 11 November 1903 in Leoncin, Warsaw Governate, Vistula Land, Russian Empire. He became an American novelist and short story writer. Isaac Bashevis Singer passed on at 87 years of age on 24 July 1991 in Surfside, Florida, United States of America.
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“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” -B. F. Skinner
Burrhus Frederic Skinner, also known as B. F. Skinner, was born in 1904. Burrhus Frederic Skinner passed on in 1990.
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“We’re electrical beings living in a magnetic environment . . . Because we’re finely tuned to subtle energy fields when they vary, as they would on top of a mountain, we change biologically and psychologically too.” -Louis Slesin
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“All’s fair in love and war.” -Francis Edward Smedley
“You are looking as fresh as paint.” -Francis Edward Smedley
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“The real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.” -Adam Smith
“To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.” -Adam Smith
“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?” -Adam Smith
Adam Smith was born in 1723. He was a Scottish moral philosopher and economist. He is known for “The Theory of Moral Sentiments,” and “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” also known simply as, “The Wealth of Nations.” Adam Smith passed on in 1790.
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“Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.” -Liz Smith
“If you don’t place your foot on the rope you’ll never cross the chasm.” -Liz Smith
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“Don’t tell your friends their social faults, they will cure the fault and never forgive you.” -Logan Pearsall Smith
“There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.” -Logan Pearsall Smith: “Afterthoughts” (1931)
Logan Pearsall Smith was born on 18 October 1865 in Millville, New Jersey, United States of America. He became an essayist, an aphorist, and a critic. Logan Pearsall Smith passed on at 80 years of age on 2 March 1946 in London, England.
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“Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.” -Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith was born in 1934. She was an actress.
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“Most of the critical things in life which become the starting points of human destiny are little things.” -R. Smith
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“Do not assume that because I am frivolous I am shallow; I don’t assume that because you are grave you are profound.” -Sydney Smith
“He is remarkably well, considering that he has been remarkably well for so many years.” -Sydney Smith
“My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon.” -Sydney Smith
“No one minds what Jeffrey says; it is not more than a week ago that I heard him speak disrespectfully of the equator.” -Sydney Smith
“Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.” -Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith was born on 3 June 1771 in Woodford, Essex, England. He became a wit, an essayist, a poet, and an Anglican clergyman. He was Canon of St. Paul’s Cathedral, addressed as Reverend. In 1802, he cofounded, “The Edinburgh Review.” Sydney Smith passed on at 73 years of age on 22 February 1845 in London, England.
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“No one is fit to be trusted with power . . . No one . . . Any man who has lived at all knows the follies and wickedness he’s capable of. If he does not know it he is not fit to govern others. And if he does know it, he knows also that neither he nor any man ought to be allowed to decide a single human fate.” -C. P. Snow
“‘You do not think highly of men, Mr. Eliot.’ ‘I am one,’ I said.” -C. P. Snow: “The Light & the Dark” (1947)
Charles Percy Snow, also known as C. P. Snow, was born on 15 October 1905 in Leicester, England. He became a novelist, a scientist, and a civil servant. Charles Percy Snow passed on at 74 years of age on 1 July 1980 in London, England.
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“Only those who can see the invisible, can accomplish the impossible!” -Patrick Snow: “Creating Your Own Destiny” (2010)
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“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.” -Ralph W. Sockman
“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.” -Ralph W. Sockman
Ralph Washington Sockman was born on 1 October 1889 in Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States of America. He was married to Zellah Endly. He became a senior pastor of United Methodist Christ Church in New York City and a radio personality (1928 - 1962). Ralph Washington Sockman passed on at 80 years of age on 29 August 1970 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“And this too shall pass.” -Solomon
“As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” -Solomon
“Being cheerful keeps you healthy.” -Solomon
“If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.” -Solomon: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Ecclesiastes,’ chapter 5, verse 5
Solomon was a tenth century B.C.E. King of ancient Israel and the reputed author of three books in the Old Testament in “The Bible.”
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“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” -Nancy D. Solomon
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“I grow old ever learning many things.” -Solon
“Learn to obey before you command.” -Solon
Solon. Solon was born in 636 B.C.E. He was an Athenian lawmaker and lyric poet of ancient Greece. Solon passed on in 558 B.C.E.
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“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” -Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born on 11 December 1918 in Kislovodsk, Russia. He became an essayist, a novelist, a historian, and a short story writer. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn passed on at 89 years of age on 3 August 2008 in Moscow, Russia.
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“If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.” -John L. Spalding
“The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.” -John L. Spalding
“What we love to do we find time to do.” -John L. Spalding
John Lancaster Spalding was born in 1840. He was an American author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria (1877 - 1908) and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America. John Lancaster Spalding passed on in 1916.
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“People need to be encouraged. People need to be reminded of how wonderful they are. People need to be believed in - told that they are brave and smart and capable of accomplishing all the dreams they dream and more. Remind each other of this.” -Stacey Jean Speer
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“All for love and nothing for reward.” -Edmund Spencer
It is the mind that maketh good or ill
That maketh wretch or happy rich or poor.
-Edmund Spencer
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“To play billiards well is a sign of an ill-spent youth.” -Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer was born on 27 April 1820 in Derby, Derbyshire, England. He was a polymath, working in the fields of biology, anthropology, a sociology, and philosophy. Herbert Spencer passed on at 83 years of age on 8 December 1903 in Brighton, Sussex, England.
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“Think big, challenge the system. Often how you do something is more important than what you do. Everyone advised David to forget about confronting the enormous giant Goliath, saying, ‘He’s so huge, there’s no way you can win.’ To which David replied, ‘He’s so huge, there’s no way I can miss!’ If we confront our challenges with all our talent, knowledge, and resolve, there’s no way we can miss.” -Robert Spillane
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“Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.” -Baruch Spinoza
“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.” -Baruch Spinoza
“Measure, time, and number are nothing but modes of thought, or rather, of imagination.” -Baruch Spinoza
“Nature abhors a vacuum.” -Baruch Spinoza: “Ethics,” Part I, 15, note
“Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature and is determined in its actions by itself alone.” -Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza, also known as Baruch de Spinoza, Benedict de Spinoza, Bento de Espinosa, Benedito de Espinosa and Benedict Spinoza, was born as Benedito de Espinosa on 24 November 1632 in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic. He became an optical lens grinder, an instrument maker, a theologian, and a philosopher. Baruch Spinoza passed on at 44 years of age on 21 February 1677 in Voorburg, The Hague, Dutch Republic. His magnum opus, “Ethics,” was published posthumously.
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“The loving person makes other people feel good and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong long-lasting friendships.” -Benjamin McLane Spock
Benjamin McLane Spock was born in 1903. He was an American pediatrician and writer. Benjamin McLane Spock passed on in 1998.
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“The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.” -Thomas Sprat
“What you dislike in another, take care to correct in yourself.” -Thomas Sprat
Thomas Sprat was born in 1636. Thomas Sprat passed on in 1713.
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“Learn to say ‘no.’ It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.” -Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, also known as C. H. Spurgeon, was born in 1834. He was an English Baptist Christian preacher. Charles Haddon Spurgeon passed on in 1892.
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“To make good use of life one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.” -Leszczynski Stanislaus
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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
-Pamela Vaull Starr
Pamela Vaull Starr is a pseudonym of Violet Isabelle Carter Popp, who was born on 5 April 1909 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America. She became a talented poet, artist, and writer. She helped to found the Idyllwild Pen Women. Violet Isabelle Carter Popp passed on at 83 years of age on 4 January 1993 in Idyllwild, California, United States of America.
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“Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits, and all other private gratifications.” -Richard Steele
Richard Steele was born on an unknown date and baptized on 12 March 1672 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an Irish-born essayist, dramatist, and politician. He is known as a co-founder with Joseph Addison of “The Spectator” magazine. Richard Steele passed on at about 57 years of age on 1 September 1729 in Llangunor, Wales.
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“Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.” -Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Joseph Steffens was born on 6 April 1866 in San Francisco, California, United States of America. He became a news reporter in New York City, launching a series of articles in “McClure’s” magazine, title ‘Tweed Days in St. Louis,’ which would later be published together in a book titled, “The Shame of the Cities” (1904). He is known for his investigations of corruption in municipal governments in American cities. Lincoln Joseph Steffens passed on at 70 years of age on 9 August 1936 in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States of America.
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“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.” -Ben Stein
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“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.” -John Ernst Steinbeck, Junior (1902 - 1968): “The Winter of Our Discontent” (1961), Part One
“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.” -John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck, Junior was born on 27 February 1902 in Salinas, California, United States of America. He became a novelist, a short story writer, and a war correspondent. He is known for the books, “Of Mice and Men” (1937), “The Grapes of Wrath” (1939), and “East of Eden” (1952). John Ernst Steinbeck, Junior passed on at 66 years of age on 20 December 1968 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.” -Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem was born in 1934. She is an American writer and editor.
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“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” -Stendhal
Henri B. Stendhal, or simply Stendhal, is a pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle, who was born on 23 January 1783 in Grenoble, France. He became a novelist. Marie-Henri Beyle passed on at 59 years of age on 23 March 1842 in Paris, France.
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Make the best of everything;
Think the best of everybody;
Hope the best for yourself.
-George Stephenson
George Stephenson was born in 1781. George Stephenson passed on in 1848.
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“Thou art the star for which all evening waits.” -George Sterling
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“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” -Wallace Stevens
“The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” -Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens was born on 2 October 1879 in Reading, Pennsylvania. He became a poet. Wallace Stevens passed on at 75 years of age on 2 August 1955 in Hertford, Connecticut.
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“It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.” -Adlai Stevenson
“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” -Adlai Stevenson
“There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted but now it happens to everybody.” -Adlai Stevenson
“What a man knows at 50 that he did not know at 20 is for the most part incommunicable. The knowledge he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas or forms of words but, of people, places, actions - a knowledge gained not by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love, the human experiences and emotions of this Earth and of oneself and other men; and perhaps too, a little faith a little reverence for things one cannot see.” -Adlai Stevenson
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was born on 5 February 1900 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. He became a lawyer, a politician, a diplomat, and the twenty-third Vice President of the United States of America. Adlai Ewing Stevenson II passed on at 65 years of age on 14 July 1965 in London, England.
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“I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world . . . make it a better place for this and future generations!” -W. Clement Stone
“Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.” -W. Clement Stone
“Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.” -W. Clement Stone
“To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.” -W. Clement Stone
“Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.” -W. Clement Stone
“You don’t get what you expect unless you inspect.” -W. Clement Stone
“Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.” -W. Clement Stone
William Clement Stone, also known as W. Clement Stone, was born on 4 May 1902 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. Starting with $100, he founded the multibillion-dollar Combined Insurance Company. He was a New Thought self-help book writer and a philanthropist. William Clement Stone passed on at 100 years of age on 3 September 2002 in Evanston, Illinois.
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“What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there’s a free market, people will trade their surpluses to others for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer.” -John Stossel
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“You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.” -Jim Stovall
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“I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe: letter to her twin daughters
“Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth . . .” -Harriet Beecher Stowe: “We and Our Neighbors” (1873)
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you . . . never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was born on 14 June 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States of America. She was a daughter of Lyman Beecher and a sister of Henry Ward Beecher. She was married to Calvin Ellis Stowe in 1836. She became a novelist and a philanthropist. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels and travel memoirs, as well as collections of articles and letters. She is known for her novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1852). Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe passed on at 85 years of age on 1 July 1896 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America. Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Website: https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/.
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“Great leaders find ways to connect with their people and help them fulfill their potential.” -Steven J. Stowell
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“A great work demands a great sacrifice, and who is not capable of a great sacrifice is not capable of a great work.” -Muriel Strode
“I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.” -Muriel Strode, “Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers,” published in “The Open Court” (August 1903)
“I will not follow where the path may lead; instead I will go where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Muriel Strode: “My Little Book of Prayer” (1905), page 11
Muriel Strode was born in 1875. Muriel Strode passed on in 1964.
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“Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.” -Janet Erskine Stuart
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“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” -Mary Stuart
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“When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly - as that a sentence must never end with a participle - and perceive how implicitly even the learned obey it, think, ‘I have only three rules of life: never do anything underhand, never get your feet wet, go to bed at ten.’” -William Stubbs
William Stubbs is a bishop.
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“When you can’t afford to hire the best, hire the young who are going to be the best.” -Geraldine Stutz
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“My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!” -Anne Sullivan
“People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.” -Anne Sullivan
Johanna Mansfield ‘Anne’ or ‘Annie’ Sullivan was born on 14 April 1866 in Feeding Hills, Agawam, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became known as the lifelong aid to Helen Adams Keller. Johanna Mansfield ‘Anne’ or ‘Annie’ Sullivan passed on at 70 years of age on 20 October 1936 in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, United States of America.
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“You ask how many friends I have? Water and stone, bamboo and pine. The Moon rising over the eastern hill is a joyful comrade. Besides these five companions, what other pleasure should I ask?” -Yon Sun-do: “Sigo”
Yon Sun-do was born in 1587. He was a Korean poet. Yon Sun-do passed on in 1671.
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“To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things in life.” -Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne was born on 5 April 1837 in London, England. He became a poet, a playwright, a novelist, and a critic. Algernon Charles Swinburne passed on 72 years of age on 10 April 1909 in London, England.
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“Discouraged people don’t need critics.” -Charles Swindoll
“People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh, and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life’s circumstances to push them down and hold them under.” -Charles Swindoll
Charles Rozell ‘Chuck’ Swindoll was born on 18 October 1934 in El Campo, Wharton County, Texas, United States of America. He is a Christian evangelical pastor, educator, radio preacher, and religious writer. He founded “Insight for Living,” which is headquartered in Plano, Texas, and airs a radio program of the same name on more than 2,000 stations around the world in 15 languages. He is presently the senior pastor at the Stonebriar Community Church, a church he founded in Frisco, Texas, United States of America.
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“Each excellent thing once learned serves for a measure of all other knowledge.” -Philip Sydney
Philip Sidney was born in 1554. Philip Sidney passed on in 1586.
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“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.” -Albert Szent-Györgyi
“Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.” -Albert Szent-Györgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi was born in 1893 in Budapest, Hungary. He became a biochemist. Albert Szent-Györgyi passed on in 1986.
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“I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.” -Jonas Salk
“The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.” -Jonas Salk
Jonas Edward Salk was born in 1914. Jonas Edward Salk passed on in 1995.
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“I want to do the right thing, but often I don’t know just what the right thing is. Every day I know I have come short of what I would like to have done. Yet as the years pass and I see the very world itself, with its oceans and mountains and plains, as something unfinished, a peculiar little satisfaction hunts out the corners of my heart. Sunsets and evening shadows find me regretful at tasks undone, but sleep and the dawn and the air of the morning touch me with freshening hopes. Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don’t worry about my destiny.” -Carl Sandburg
“Nothing happens unless first a dream.” -Carl Sandburg: “Washington Monument by Night”
Carl Augustus Sandburg was born on 6 January 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois, United States of America. He became a poet, a novelist, a folklorist, a balladeer, and a historian. Carl Augustus Sandburg passed on at 89 years of age on 22 July 1967 in Flat Rock, North Carolina, United States of America.
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“A man’s hatred of his own condition no more helps to improve it than hatred of other people tends to improve them.” -George Santayana
Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, also known as George Santayana, was born on 16 December 1863 in Madrid, Spain. He became an American philosopher, critic, essayist, novelist, and poet. Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás passed on at 88 years of age on 26 September 1952 in Rome, Italy.
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“Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know . . . One who doesn’t try cannot fail and become wise.” -William Saroyan
William Saroyan was born in 1908. He became a novelist, a short story writer, and a playwright. William Saroyan passed on in 1981.
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“Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.” -Virginia Satir
“We must not allow other peoples’ limited perceptions to define us.” -Virginia Satir
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“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” -Jean Paul Sartre
“What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was born on 21 June 1905 in Paris, France. He became a novelist, a biographer, a dramatist, a screenwriter, and a literary critic. Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre passed on at 74 years of age on 15 April 1980 in Paris, France.
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“I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.” -Diane Sawyer
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“Trouble shared is trouble halved.” -Dorothy L. Sayers
Dorothy Leigh Sayers was born in 1893. She was married to Oswald Arthur Fleming in 1926. She became a novelist and a detective fiction writer. She is known as the creator of Lord Peter Wimsey. In 1947, she stopped writing detective novels and concentrated on translating Dante and lecturing on philosophy, medieval literature, and religion. Dorothy Leigh Sayers passed on in 1957.
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“Life is a process. We are a process. The Universe is a process.” -Anne Wilson Schaef
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“It is so important not to waste what is precious by spending all one’s time and emotion on fretting or complaining over what one does not have.” -Edith Schaeffer
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“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
“It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
“What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has, or how he is regarded by others.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer was born on 22 February 1788 in Danzig, Germany. He became a philosopher. He is known for his book, “The World as Will and Representation.” Arthur Schopenhauer passed on at 72 years of age on 21 September 1860 in Main, Germany.
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“Risk more than others think is safe. Dream more than others think is practical.” -Howard Schultz
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“If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings.” -Susan Polis Schultz
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“A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.” -Charles M. Schwab
“I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement. There is nothing that so kills the ambitions of a man as criticisms from his superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a man incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. If anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.” -Charles M. Schwab
“I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism.” -Charles M. Schwab
“Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business.” -Charles M. Schwab
“The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others.” -Charles M. Schwab
“The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.” -Charles Schwab
Charles M. Schwab was born in 1862. He was an American industrialist and businessman. Charles M. Schwab passed on in 1939.
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“I read a lot of biographies of people who had accomplished great things, people such as John D. Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, Charles M. Schwab, the steel magnate (no relation), and many others. I saw the importance of determination, or passion and fighting hard for what you believed in, and the importance of optimism and believing good things are possible. All the people I read about had a maniacal focus on growth.” -Charles Schwab: “Invested - Changing Forever The Way Americans Invest” (2019)
“Recognizing a business opportunity is only one part of succeeding as an entrepreneur. The key is acting on your business insight and following through . . . A business like ours comes down to two things; a big idea that makes a difference in people’s lives, and people who believe in it and will see it through to fruition day after day, despite what may get in the way. You have to get both right.” -Charles Schwab: “Invested - Changing Forever The Way Americans Invest” (2019)
“To this day I encourage young executives to get training in public speaking. No matter how good they are, mastering those moments in front of an audience is crucial to leading others, and it rarely comes naturally.” -Charles Schwab: “Invested - Changing Forever The Way Americans Invest” (2019)
Charles Robert Schwab was born on 29 July 1937 in Sacramento, California, United States of America. He is an investment and finance executive. He is known as the founder of the Charles Schwab Corporation.
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“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe one hundred percent.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“You cannot help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.” -H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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“The spirit of man is stronger than anything that can happen to it.” -Robert Falcon Scott
Robert Falcon Scott was born in 1868. He became a Captain. Robert Falcon Scott passed on in 1912.
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“Success depends above all, upon people. Build relationships, teams, partnerships - and motivate people to contribute. Cultivate leadership, creativity, excellence. Listen; seek new ideas and advice.” -Ruth Scott
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“The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.” -Walter Scott
Walter Scott was born in 1771. Walter Scott passed on in 1832.
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“As you grow older, you’ll find the only things you regret are the things you didn’t do.” -Zachary Scott
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“A writer who says there are no truths, or that all truth is merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.” -Roger Scruton: “Modern Philosophy” (1994)
Roger Vernon Scruton was born on 27 February 1944 in Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. He became a writer. Roger Vernon Scruton passed on at 75 years of age on 12 January 2020 in Brinkworth, Wiltshire, England.
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“Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?” -Frank Scully
Frank Scully is an American journalist.
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“The only certainty is that nothing is certain.” -Gaius Plinius Secundus
“True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written; in writing what deserves to be read; and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.” -Gaius Plinius Secundus
Gaius Plinius Secundus, also known as Pliny the Elder, was born in C.E. 23 or C.E. 24 in Comum, Italy. He was a statesman and scholar of ancient Rome. He is known as the author of “Naturalis Historia.” Gaius Plinius Secundus passed on at 55 years of age on C.E. 25 August 79.
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“Too many people miss the silver lining because they’re expecting gold.” -Maurice Seitter
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“This iz Chief Inspector Clouseau speaking on the pheaun.” -Richard Henry Peter Sellers
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“One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one’s life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.” -Hannah Senesh
“There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind.” -Hannah Senesh
Hannah Senesh was born in 1921. He was a poet, a playwright, and a paratrooper. Hannah Senesh passed on in 1944.
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“All great things have small beginnings.” -Peter Senge
“The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage.” -Peter Senge
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“We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.” -Julia Seton: as quoted in “Forbes” (1965)
Julia Seton was born in 1889. She became a writer. Julia Seton passed on in 1975.
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“Give away what you most want to receive.” -Robin Sharma
“Ideas don’t work for people unwilling to do the work.” -Robin Sharma
“My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I’ve spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.” -Robin S. Sharma
“The best of the best understand that people do business with people they like. People do business with people they trust, and people do business with those who make them feel special.” -Robin S. Sharma
“We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” -Robin Sharma
Robin Sharma was born in 1965.
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“If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.” -Pam Shaw
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“The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.” -Gail Sheehy
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“If it be true that the world has lost its respect for authority, it is only because it lost it first in the home.” -Fulton J. Sheen: “On Being Human” (1982)
Fulton John Sheen was born as Peter John Sheen on 8 May 1895 in El Paso, Illinois, United States of America. He was an American bishop in the Catholic Church, known for his preaching and his work on television and radio. Fulton John Sheen passed on at 84 years of age on 9 December 1979 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“Just as there are three R’s there are also three A’s of business life. They are: Ability, Ambition, and Attitude. Ability establishes what a worker does and will bring him a paycheck. Ambition determines how much he does and will get him a raise. Attitude guarantees how well he does.” -Wilbert E. Sheer
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“There is nothing noble in being superior to some other person. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.” -W. L. Sheldon (1897)
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“Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you’re gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.” -Barbara Sher
“You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.” -Barbara Sher
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“I presume you’re mortal and may err.” -James Shirley
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“All the wild ideas of unbalanced agitators the world over, in their ignorant and pitiable quest for happiness through revolution, confiscation of property, and crime cannot overthrow the eternal truth that the one route to happiness through property or government is over the broad and open highway of service. And service always means industry, thrift, respect for authority, and recognition of the rights of others.” -W. G. Sibley
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“Either I will find a way, or I will make one.” -Philip Sidney
Philip Sidney was born in 1554. He was an English courtier, writer, poet, and soldier. Philip Sidney passed on at 31 years of age in 1586.
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“The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.” -Igor Sikorsky
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“Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. For whenever excellence is recounted, it is increased.” -Sterling W. Sill
Sterling Welling Sill was born in 1903. He became a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Sterling Welling Sill passed on in 1994.
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“I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin. I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn’t matter.” -Beverly Sills
“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” -Beverly Sills
Beverly Sills is a pseudonym of Belle Miriam ‘Bubbles’ Silverman, who was born on 25 May 1929 in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. She became a soprano opera singer. Bell Miriam ‘Bubbles’ Silverman passed on at 78 years of age on 2 July 2007 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“If each one of us could make just one other happy, the whole world would know happiness.” -Georges Simenon
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon lived in Paris, France. He became a crime novelist, and wrote under 17 pseudonyms.
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“He that knows the world will not be bashful; he that knows himself will not be impudent.” -C. Simmons
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“Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in the little things.” -Charles Simmons
Charles Simmons was born in 1798. Charles Simmons passed on in 1856.
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“I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living his life, and who had good friends, a fine family. I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.” -Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra was born in 1915. He was an American singer and actor. Frank Sinatra passed on in 1998.
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“Fight against something and we focus on the thing we hate. Fight for something and we focus on the thing we love.” -Simon Sinek
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“Do what you love and the money will follow.” -Marsha Sinetar
“You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don’t do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.” -Marsha Sinetar
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“God sends burdens, and shoulders, too.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer: “Gimpel the Fool”
“We know what a person thinks, not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer: as quoted in “New York Times Magazine” (26 November 1978)
Isaac Bashevis Singer was born as Izaak Zynger on 11 November 1903 in Leoncin, Warsaw Governate, Vistula Land, Russian Empire. He became an American novelist and short story writer. Isaac Bashevis Singer passed on at 87 years of age on 24 July 1991 in Surfside, Florida, United States of America.
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“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.” -B. F. Skinner
Burrhus Frederic Skinner, also known as B. F. Skinner, was born in 1904. Burrhus Frederic Skinner passed on in 1990.
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“We’re electrical beings living in a magnetic environment . . . Because we’re finely tuned to subtle energy fields when they vary, as they would on top of a mountain, we change biologically and psychologically too.” -Louis Slesin
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“All’s fair in love and war.” -Francis Edward Smedley
“You are looking as fresh as paint.” -Francis Edward Smedley
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“The real price of everything is the toil and trouble of acquiring it.” -Adam Smith
“To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.” -Adam Smith
“What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?” -Adam Smith
Adam Smith was born in 1723. He was a Scottish moral philosopher and economist. He is known for “The Theory of Moral Sentiments,” and “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” also known simply as, “The Wealth of Nations.” Adam Smith passed on in 1790.
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“Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.” -Liz Smith
“If you don’t place your foot on the rope you’ll never cross the chasm.” -Liz Smith
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“Don’t tell your friends their social faults, they will cure the fault and never forgive you.” -Logan Pearsall Smith
“There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.” -Logan Pearsall Smith: “Afterthoughts” (1931)
Logan Pearsall Smith was born on 18 October 1865 in Millville, New Jersey, United States of America. He became an essayist, an aphorist, and a critic. Logan Pearsall Smith passed on at 80 years of age on 2 March 1946 in London, England.
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“Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.” -Maggie Smith
Maggie Smith was born in 1934. She was an actress.
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“Most of the critical things in life which become the starting points of human destiny are little things.” -R. Smith
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“Do not assume that because I am frivolous I am shallow; I don’t assume that because you are grave you are profound.” -Sydney Smith
“He is remarkably well, considering that he has been remarkably well for so many years.” -Sydney Smith
“My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon.” -Sydney Smith
“No one minds what Jeffrey says; it is not more than a week ago that I heard him speak disrespectfully of the equator.” -Sydney Smith
“Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.” -Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith was born on 3 June 1771 in Woodford, Essex, England. He became a wit, an essayist, a poet, and an Anglican clergyman. He was Canon of St. Paul’s Cathedral, addressed as Reverend. In 1802, he cofounded, “The Edinburgh Review.” Sydney Smith passed on at 73 years of age on 22 February 1845 in London, England.
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“No one is fit to be trusted with power . . . No one . . . Any man who has lived at all knows the follies and wickedness he’s capable of. If he does not know it he is not fit to govern others. And if he does know it, he knows also that neither he nor any man ought to be allowed to decide a single human fate.” -C. P. Snow
“‘You do not think highly of men, Mr. Eliot.’ ‘I am one,’ I said.” -C. P. Snow: “The Light & the Dark” (1947)
Charles Percy Snow, also known as C. P. Snow, was born on 15 October 1905 in Leicester, England. He became a novelist, a scientist, and a civil servant. Charles Percy Snow passed on at 74 years of age on 1 July 1980 in London, England.
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“Only those who can see the invisible, can accomplish the impossible!” -Patrick Snow: “Creating Your Own Destiny” (2010)
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“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.” -Ralph W. Sockman
“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.” -Ralph W. Sockman
Ralph Washington Sockman was born on 1 October 1889 in Mount Vernon, Ohio, United States of America. He was married to Zellah Endly. He became a senior pastor of United Methodist Christ Church in New York City and a radio personality (1928 - 1962). Ralph Washington Sockman passed on at 80 years of age on 29 August 1970 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“And this too shall pass.” -Solomon
“As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” -Solomon
“Being cheerful keeps you healthy.” -Solomon
“If you wait for perfect conditions, you will never get anything done.” -Solomon: as quoted in “The Bible,” ‘Ecclesiastes,’ chapter 5, verse 5
Solomon was a tenth century B.C.E. King of ancient Israel and the reputed author of three books in the Old Testament in “The Bible.”
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“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” -Nancy D. Solomon
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“I grow old ever learning many things.” -Solon
“Learn to obey before you command.” -Solon
Solon. Solon was born in 636 B.C.E. He was an Athenian lawmaker and lyric poet of ancient Greece. Solon passed on in 558 B.C.E.
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“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.” -Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was born on 11 December 1918 in Kislovodsk, Russia. He became an essayist, a novelist, a historian, and a short story writer. Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn passed on at 89 years of age on 3 August 2008 in Moscow, Russia.
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“If all were gentle and contented as sheep, all would be as feeble and helpless.” -John L. Spalding
“The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.” -John L. Spalding
“What we love to do we find time to do.” -John L. Spalding
John Lancaster Spalding was born in 1840. He was an American author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria (1877 - 1908) and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America. John Lancaster Spalding passed on in 1916.
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“People need to be encouraged. People need to be reminded of how wonderful they are. People need to be believed in - told that they are brave and smart and capable of accomplishing all the dreams they dream and more. Remind each other of this.” -Stacey Jean Speer
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“All for love and nothing for reward.” -Edmund Spencer
It is the mind that maketh good or ill
That maketh wretch or happy rich or poor.
-Edmund Spencer
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“To play billiards well is a sign of an ill-spent youth.” -Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer was born on 27 April 1820 in Derby, Derbyshire, England. He was a polymath, working in the fields of biology, anthropology, a sociology, and philosophy. Herbert Spencer passed on at 83 years of age on 8 December 1903 in Brighton, Sussex, England.
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“Think big, challenge the system. Often how you do something is more important than what you do. Everyone advised David to forget about confronting the enormous giant Goliath, saying, ‘He’s so huge, there’s no way you can win.’ To which David replied, ‘He’s so huge, there’s no way I can miss!’ If we confront our challenges with all our talent, knowledge, and resolve, there’s no way we can miss.” -Robert Spillane
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“Everything in nature is a cause from which there flows some effect.” -Baruch Spinoza
“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.” -Baruch Spinoza
“Measure, time, and number are nothing but modes of thought, or rather, of imagination.” -Baruch Spinoza
“Nature abhors a vacuum.” -Baruch Spinoza: “Ethics,” Part I, 15, note
“Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature and is determined in its actions by itself alone.” -Baruch Spinoza
Baruch Spinoza, also known as Baruch de Spinoza, Benedict de Spinoza, Bento de Espinosa, Benedito de Espinosa and Benedict Spinoza, was born as Benedito de Espinosa on 24 November 1632 in Amsterdam, Dutch Republic. He became an optical lens grinder, an instrument maker, a theologian, and a philosopher. Baruch Spinoza passed on at 44 years of age on 21 February 1677 in Voorburg, The Hague, Dutch Republic. His magnum opus, “Ethics,” was published posthumously.
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“The loving person makes other people feel good and he is usually a happy person himself. He is able to form strong long-lasting friendships.” -Benjamin McLane Spock
Benjamin McLane Spock was born in 1903. He was an American pediatrician and writer. Benjamin McLane Spock passed on in 1998.
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“The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.” -Thomas Sprat
“What you dislike in another, take care to correct in yourself.” -Thomas Sprat
Thomas Sprat was born in 1636. Thomas Sprat passed on in 1713.
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“Learn to say ‘no.’ It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.” -Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, also known as C. H. Spurgeon, was born in 1834. He was an English Baptist Christian preacher. Charles Haddon Spurgeon passed on in 1892.
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“To make good use of life one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.” -Leszczynski Stanislaus
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Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
-Pamela Vaull Starr
Pamela Vaull Starr is a pseudonym of Violet Isabelle Carter Popp, who was born on 5 April 1909 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America. She became a talented poet, artist, and writer. She helped to found the Idyllwild Pen Women. Violet Isabelle Carter Popp passed on at 83 years of age on 4 January 1993 in Idyllwild, California, United States of America.
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“Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits, and all other private gratifications.” -Richard Steele
Richard Steele was born on an unknown date and baptized on 12 March 1672 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an Irish-born essayist, dramatist, and politician. He is known as a co-founder with Joseph Addison of “The Spectator” magazine. Richard Steele passed on at about 57 years of age on 1 September 1729 in Llangunor, Wales.
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“Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will abuse it.” -Lincoln Steffens
Lincoln Joseph Steffens was born on 6 April 1866 in San Francisco, California, United States of America. He became a news reporter in New York City, launching a series of articles in “McClure’s” magazine, title ‘Tweed Days in St. Louis,’ which would later be published together in a book titled, “The Shame of the Cities” (1904). He is known for his investigations of corruption in municipal governments in American cities. Lincoln Joseph Steffens passed on at 70 years of age on 9 August 1936 in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, United States of America.
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“The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.” -Ben Stein
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“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.” -John Ernst Steinbeck, Junior (1902 - 1968): “The Winter of Our Discontent” (1961), Part One
“It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.” -John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck, Junior was born on 27 February 1902 in Salinas, California, United States of America. He became a novelist, a short story writer, and a war correspondent. He is known for the books, “Of Mice and Men” (1937), “The Grapes of Wrath” (1939), and “East of Eden” (1952). John Ernst Steinbeck, Junior passed on at 66 years of age on 20 December 1968 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.” -Gloria Steinem
Gloria Steinem was born in 1934. She is an American writer and editor.
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“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” -Stendhal
Henri B. Stendhal, or simply Stendhal, is a pseudonym of Marie-Henri Beyle, who was born on 23 January 1783 in Grenoble, France. He became a novelist. Marie-Henri Beyle passed on at 59 years of age on 23 March 1842 in Paris, France.
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Make the best of everything;
Think the best of everybody;
Hope the best for yourself.
-George Stephenson
George Stephenson was born in 1781. George Stephenson passed on in 1848.
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“Thou art the star for which all evening waits.” -George Sterling
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“Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.” -Wallace Stevens
“The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” -Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens was born on 2 October 1879 in Reading, Pennsylvania. He became a poet. Wallace Stevens passed on at 75 years of age on 2 August 1955 in Hertford, Connecticut.
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“It’s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.” -Adlai Stevenson
“My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” -Adlai Stevenson
“There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted but now it happens to everybody.” -Adlai Stevenson
“What a man knows at 50 that he did not know at 20 is for the most part incommunicable. The knowledge he has acquired with age is not the knowledge of formulas or forms of words but, of people, places, actions - a knowledge gained not by words but by touch, sight, sound, victories, failures, sleeplessness, devotion, love, the human experiences and emotions of this Earth and of oneself and other men; and perhaps too, a little faith a little reverence for things one cannot see.” -Adlai Stevenson
Adlai Ewing Stevenson II was born on 5 February 1900 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. He became a lawyer, a politician, a diplomat, and the twenty-third Vice President of the United States of America. Adlai Ewing Stevenson II passed on at 65 years of age on 14 July 1965 in London, England.
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“I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world . . . make it a better place for this and future generations!” -W. Clement Stone
“Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed. Study, think, and plan.” -W. Clement Stone
“Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.” -W. Clement Stone
“To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.” -W. Clement Stone
“Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.” -W. Clement Stone
“You don’t get what you expect unless you inspect.” -W. Clement Stone
“Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.” -W. Clement Stone
William Clement Stone, also known as W. Clement Stone, was born on 4 May 1902 in Chicago, Illinois, United States of America. Starting with $100, he founded the multibillion-dollar Combined Insurance Company. He was a New Thought self-help book writer and a philanthropist. William Clement Stone passed on at 100 years of age on 3 September 2002 in Evanston, Illinois.
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“What private property does is connect effort to reward, creating an incentive for people to produce for more. Then, if there’s a free market, people will trade their surpluses to others for the things they lack. Mutual exchange for mutual benefit makes the community richer.” -John Stossel
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“You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.” -Jim Stovall
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“I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe: letter to her twin daughters
“Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth . . .” -Harriet Beecher Stowe: “We and Our Neighbors” (1873)
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you . . . never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” -Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe was born on 14 June 1811 in Litchfield, Connecticut, United States of America. She was a daughter of Lyman Beecher and a sister of Henry Ward Beecher. She was married to Calvin Ellis Stowe in 1836. She became a novelist and a philanthropist. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels and travel memoirs, as well as collections of articles and letters. She is known for her novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1852). Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe passed on at 85 years of age on 1 July 1896 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States of America. Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Website: https://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/.
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“Great leaders find ways to connect with their people and help them fulfill their potential.” -Steven J. Stowell
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“A great work demands a great sacrifice, and who is not capable of a great sacrifice is not capable of a great work.” -Muriel Strode
“I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.” -Muriel Strode, “Wind-Wafted Wild Flowers,” published in “The Open Court” (August 1903)
“I will not follow where the path may lead; instead I will go where there is no path and leave a trail.” -Muriel Strode: “My Little Book of Prayer” (1905), page 11
Muriel Strode was born in 1875. Muriel Strode passed on in 1964.
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“Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor the best opportunities; they will never come.” -Janet Erskine Stuart
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“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” -Mary Stuart
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“When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly - as that a sentence must never end with a participle - and perceive how implicitly even the learned obey it, think, ‘I have only three rules of life: never do anything underhand, never get your feet wet, go to bed at ten.’” -William Stubbs
William Stubbs is a bishop.
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“When you can’t afford to hire the best, hire the young who are going to be the best.” -Geraldine Stutz
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“My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil’s mind, and behold, all things are changed!” -Anne Sullivan
“People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.” -Anne Sullivan
Johanna Mansfield ‘Anne’ or ‘Annie’ Sullivan was born on 14 April 1866 in Feeding Hills, Agawam, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became known as the lifelong aid to Helen Adams Keller. Johanna Mansfield ‘Anne’ or ‘Annie’ Sullivan passed on at 70 years of age on 20 October 1936 in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, United States of America.
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“You ask how many friends I have? Water and stone, bamboo and pine. The Moon rising over the eastern hill is a joyful comrade. Besides these five companions, what other pleasure should I ask?” -Yon Sun-do: “Sigo”
Yon Sun-do was born in 1587. He was a Korean poet. Yon Sun-do passed on in 1671.
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“To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things in life.” -Algernon Charles Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne was born on 5 April 1837 in London, England. He became a poet, a playwright, a novelist, and a critic. Algernon Charles Swinburne passed on 72 years of age on 10 April 1909 in London, England.
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“Discouraged people don’t need critics.” -Charles Swindoll
“People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh, and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life’s circumstances to push them down and hold them under.” -Charles Swindoll
Charles Rozell ‘Chuck’ Swindoll was born on 18 October 1934 in El Campo, Wharton County, Texas, United States of America. He is a Christian evangelical pastor, educator, radio preacher, and religious writer. He founded “Insight for Living,” which is headquartered in Plano, Texas, and airs a radio program of the same name on more than 2,000 stations around the world in 15 languages. He is presently the senior pastor at the Stonebriar Community Church, a church he founded in Frisco, Texas, United States of America.
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“Each excellent thing once learned serves for a measure of all other knowledge.” -Philip Sydney
Philip Sidney was born in 1554. Philip Sidney passed on in 1586.
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“A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.” -Albert Szent-Györgyi
“Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.” -Albert Szent-Györgyi
Albert Szent-Györgyi was born in 1893 in Budapest, Hungary. He became a biochemist. Albert Szent-Györgyi passed on in 1986.
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“Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin.” -Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, also known as Gaius Cornelius Tacitus or simply as Tacitus, was born in about C.E. 56. He became an orator, a lawyer, a senator, a governor, and a historian of Ancient Rome. Publius Cornelius Tacitus passed on at about 64 years of age in about C.E. 120.
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“I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.” -Rabindranath Tagore
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” -Rabindranath Tagore
“The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.” -Rabindranath Tagore
“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.” -Rabindranath Tagore
“You can’t cross a sea by merely staring into the water.” -Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore, also known as Ravīndranātha Thākura, was born as Rabindranath Thakur on 7 May 1861 in Calcutta (Kolkata), Bengal Presidency, British India. He became a poet, a short story writer, a song composer, a playwright, an essayist, a novelist, and a painter. He is known as the author of “Gitanjali,” “Gora,” “Ghare-Baire,” “Jana Gana Mana,” “Amar Shonar Bangla,” and other works. Rabindranath Tagore passed on at 80 years of age on 7 August 1941 in Calcutta (Kolkata), Bengal Presidency, British India.
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“The reason American cities are prosperous is that there is no place for people to sit down.” -Alfred J. Talley
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“Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.” -Greg Tamblyn
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“Our success or failure, peace or discontent, happiness or misery, depend on the choices we make each day.” -N. Eldon Tanner: ‘Thou Mayest Choose for Thyself,’ published in “Ensign” (July 1973) magazine, page 7
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“Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts.” -Tao Te Ching
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“One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.” -Ida Scott Taylor
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“Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.” -Bayard Taylor
James Bayard ‘Bayard’ Taylor was born on 11 January 1825 in Kennett Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He became a poet, a literary critic, a translator, a travel writer, a novelist, and a diplomat. He is known for “Ximena, or the Battle of the Sierra Morena, and other Poems” (1844). James Bayard ‘Bayard’ Taylor passed on at 53 years of age on 19 December 1878 in Germany.
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“Never give up, great things take time.” -Cabi Taylor
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“The world knows nothing of its greatest men.” -Henry Taylor
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“The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic’s terrible.” -Jeff Taylor
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“No trial is joyous for the present but grievous to be borne; but trials yield their blessings, when patiently endured.” -John Taylor: “Journal of Discourses,” Volume 6, page 166 and 167
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“Instead of supposing that a work of art must be something that all can behold - a poem, a painting, a book, a great building - consider making your own life a work of art. You have yourself to begin with, and a time of uncertain duration to work on it. You do not have to be what you are, and even though you may be quite content with who you are, it will not be hard for you to think of something much greater that you might become. It need not be something spectacular or even something that will attract notice from others. What it will be is a kind of excellence that you project for yourself, and then attain - something that you can take a look at, with honest self-appraisal, and be proud of.” -Richard Taylor: “Restoring Pride: The Lost Virtue of Our Age” (1995), page 64
Richard Taylor was born on 5 November 1919 in Charlotte, Michigan, United States of America. He became a writer and a beekeeper. Richard Taylor passed on at 83 years of age on 30 October 2003 in Trumansburg, New York, United States of America.
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“When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living.” -Tecumseh
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Life has loveliness to sell,
all beautiful and splendid things,
blue waves whitened on a cliff,
soaring fire that sways and sings,
and children’s faces looking up,
holding wonder like a cup.
-Sara Teasdale
“Look for a lovely thing and you will find it. It is not far- it never will be far.” -Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale Filsinger was born as Sara Trevor Teasdale on 8 August 1884 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America. She became a lyrical poet. Sara Teasdale Filsinger passed on at 48 years of age on 29 January 1933 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.” -William Temple: as attributed in John Timbs: “Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors” (1829), page 169
William Temple was born in 1881. He was an English theologian and archbishop. William Temple passed on in 1944.
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“If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.” -John Templeton
“It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something different from the majority.” -John Templeton
“Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.” -John Templeton
“Thanksgiving, not complaining, attracts people to you.” -John Marks Templeton
John Marks Templeton was born in 1912. He was an American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist. John Marks Templeton passed on in 2008.
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“Come my friends, ’tis not too late to seek a newer world.” -Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, also known as Lord Tennyson, was born on 6 August 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England. He was married to Emily Shellwood in 1850. With his brother, he wrote “Poems by Two Brothers” (1828). Alfred Tennyson succeeded William Wordsworth as England’s poet laureate on 19 November 1850 and held the post until his passing at 83 years of age on 6 October 1892 in Lurgashall, Sussex, England.
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“A word to the wise is sufficient.” [translation to English]
“Dictum sapienti sat est.” [original Latin]
-Terence
“An easy task becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.” -Terence
“Charity begins at home.” -Terence
“Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.” -Terence
“Fortune favors the brave.” -Terence
“I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.” -Terence
“Moderation in all things.” -Terence: “The Lady of Andros”
“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.” -Terence
“There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.” -Terence
“When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.” -Terence
“While there’s life, there’s hope.” -Terence
“You are a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to whatever needs it.” -Terence
Publius Terentius Afer, also known as Terence, was born in 185 B.C.E. He was a comic drama playwright of ancient Rome. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him, and impressed by his abilities, freed him. His comedies were performed for the first time sometime between about 170 B.C.E. and 160 B.C.E. Publius Terentius Afer passed on at about 26 years of age in 159 B.C.E.
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“Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.” -Valentina Tereshkova
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“People say you can’t herd cats. Well, yes you can if you move their food.” -Sharon Terry
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“Where our joy is, there should our work be.” -Tertullian
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, also known simply as Tertullian, was born in about C.E. 155 in Carthage, Tunisia. He was an early Christian theologian, polemicist, moralist, and writer from Carthage in the ancient Roman province of Africa. Tertullian passed on in about C.E. 240 in Carthage, Tunisia.
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“All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed - only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.” -Nikola Tesla
“I don’t care that they stole my idea . . . I care that they don’t have any of their own.” -Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was born on 9 July 1856 in Smiljan, Lika, Croatia. Nikola Tesla passed on at 86 years of age on 1 July 1943 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“Be patient with yourself. You are growing stronger every day. The weight of the world will become lighter . . . and you will begin to shine brighter. Don’t give up.” -Robert Tew
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“Know thyself.” [English translation]
“Nosce te ipsum.” [original Latin]
-Thales
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.” -Thales
Thales was born in C.E. 640. Thales passed on in C.E. 546.
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“It’s never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.” -Nancy Thayer
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“Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the Universe.” -Therese of Lisieux
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“Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellow men and I will tell you how much you love them.” -Helmut Thielicke
Helmut Thielicke is a German theologian and preacher
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“Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.” -Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas is a pseudonym of Amos Jacobs Kairouz, sometimes shortened to Amos Jacobs, which is an anglicization of Amos Alphonsus Muzyad Yakhoob, and born as Amos Muzyad Yaqoob Kairouz on 6 January 1912 in Deerfield, Michigan, United States of America. He became a comedian, a singer, an actor, a producer, and a philanthropist. Amos Jacobs Kairouz passed on at 79 years of age on 6 February 1991 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
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“Pay attention to the basics.” -Dave Thomas
“Truly successful people are the ones who help others cross the finish line. Genuinely caring about people generally leads to success.” -Dave Thomas
Dave Thomas was the founder of Wendy’s restaurants.
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“Why is it that wherever I go the resident idiot heads straight for me?” -Gwynn Thomas
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“I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you’re striving to do your best.” -Kurt Thomas
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“Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.” -Dorothy Thompson
“When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default, it can never be recovered.” -Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompson was born in 1894. Dorothy Thompson passed on in 1961.
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“With Paine’s “The Rights of Man,” “The Pilgrim’s Progress” is one of the foundation documents of the working class movement.” -E. P. Thompson: “The Making of the English Working Class”
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“A ring on the finger is worth two on the phone.” -Harold Thompson
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“The only normal way to begin speaking in a new language is to begin speaking badly.” -Greg Thomson
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“If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning.” -Brad Thor
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“Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.” -Edward Thorndike
Edward Lee Thorndike was born on 31 August 1874. He was an American psychologist. Edward Lee Thorndike passed on at 74 years of age on 9 August 1949.
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“In every home and everywhere, there are reasons to forbear; faults forgiven with every pair would make a world happy and fair.” -J. J. Thorne
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“I proclaim that justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger.” -Thrasymachus
Thrasymachus lived in the 5th century B.C.E. He was a philosopher of ancient Greece.
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“Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.” -Thucydides: “History of the Peloponnesian War”
“Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome.” -Thucydides
Thucydides was born in about 460 B.C.E. He was a historian of ancient Greece Thucydides passed on in about 395 B.C.E.
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“A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” -James Thurber
“A pinch of probably is worth a pound of perhaps.” -James Thurber
“Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.” -James Thurber
James Grover Thurber was born in 1894. He was blind in one eye from a childhood accident. He became an American writer, humorist, and cartoonist, working for “The New Yorker” (1933 - 1961). James Grover Thurber passed on in 1961.
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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” -Howard Thurman
Howard Thurman was born in 1900. He became a clergyman and an educator. Howard Thurman passed on in 1981.
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“Don’t wait for inspiration. Take action! Action generates inspiration.” -Frank Tibolt
Tibolt, Frank. Frank Tibolt was born in 1897. Frank Tibolt passed on in 1989.
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“Above all, train hard, eat light, and avoid TV and people with negative attitudes.” -Scott Tinley
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“It is better to be old-fashioned and right than to be up-to-date and wrong.” -Tiorio
“You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.” -Tiorio
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“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” -J. R. R. Tolkien: “The Fellowship of the Ring” (1954)
“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.” -J. R. R. Tolkien: “The Fellowship of the Ring” (1954)
“He [Bilbo] used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. ‘It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,’ he used to say. ‘You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.’” -J. R. R. Tolkien: “The Fellowship of the Ring” (1954)
“It’s the job that’s never started that takes longest to finish.” -J. R. R. Tolkien
“Not all those who wander are lost.” -J. R. R. Tolkien: “The Lord of the Rings” (1954)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, also known as J. R. R. Tolkien, was born in 1892 in South Africa. He became an English professor, a linguist, and a novelist. He is known as the author of “The Hobbit” (1937) and “Lord of the Rings” (1954). John Ronald Reuel Tolkien passed on in 1973.
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“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” -Eckhart Tolle
“Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.” -Eckhart Tolle -Eckhart Tolle
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.”
Eckhart Tolle is a pseudonym of Ulrich Leonard Tölle, who was born on 16 February 1948 in Lünen, Dortmund, Germany. He is a Canadian writer and professional speaker. Known as the author of books including “The Power of Now.” Website https://eckharttolle.com/.
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“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” -Lily Tomlin
“I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.” -Lily Tomlin
“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.” -Lily Tomlin
“The road to success is always under construction.” -Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin is a pseudonym of Mary Jean Tomlin, who was born in 1939. She is an American actress and comedian, some of whose material was written for her by Jane Wagner.
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“We see things not as they are, but as we are.” -H. M. Tomlinson
Henry M. Tomlinson was born in 1873. He was an English novelist and journalist. Henry M. Tomlinson passed on in 1958.
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“You must love and think about your work if you are to make a success of it and make it pay.” -Elizabeth Towne
Elizabeth Towne was born in 1860. She was the founder and editor of the New Thought movement “Nautilus Magazine,” in which she published many articles by Wallace Wattles. She became a new thought writer and a publisher. Elizabeth Towne passed on in 1965.
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“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” -Atwood H. Townsend
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“How do you spot a leader? They come in all ages, shapes and conditions. Some are poor administrators, some are not overly bright. One clue: the true leader can be recognized because somehow his people consistently turn in superior performances.” -Robert Townsend
“If people are coming to work excited . . . if they’re making mistakes freely and fearlessly . . . if they’re having fun . . . if they’re concentrating on doing things, rather than preparing reports and going to meetings - then somewhere you have leaders.” -Robert Townsend
Robert Townsend was born in 1819. He was an American Navy Civil War era ship captain. Robert Townsend passed on in 1866.
Townsend, Robert. Robert Townsend was born in 1920.
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“Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.” -Arnold J. Toynbee
“Historically, religion came first and science grew out of religion. Science has never superseded religion, and it is my expectation that it never will.” -Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold Joseph Toynbee was born on 14 April 1889 in London, England. He became a historian. Arnold Joseph Toynbee passed on at 86 years of age on 22 October 1975 in York, England.
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“In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and the job’s a game.” -P. L. Travers: “Mary Poppins”
“When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.” -P. L. Travers
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“The only way to know your true nature is through the actions you take in the real world, not through meditations or introspection.” -Doc Trejo
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“Don’t bother about genius. Don’t worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance, and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: ‘Don’t grumble. Plug on!’” -Frederick Treves
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“Happiness is the sense that one matters.” -Sarah Trimmer
Sarah Kirby Trimmer was born in 1741. She was an English writer of children’s books, educational material, and textbooks. Sarah Kirby Trimmer passed on in 1810.
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“Buying and selling is good and necessary, it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good, but it cannot be the noblest work of man, and let us hope that in our time it may not be esteemed the noblest work of an Englishman.” -Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was born in 1815 as a son of Frances Trollope. He was married to Rose Hesletine in 1844. He became an English novelist. Anthony Trollope passed on in 1882.
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“Sometimes you can’t get as much attention with a yell as you can with a whisper.” -Gary D. Trump
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“Though time and miles may separate us, I have built a bridge of lovely memories to span the distance.” -Virginia Tubbs
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“If you’re not enjoying the journey, you probably won’t enjoy the destination.” -Joe Tye
Joe Tye is a motivational speaker and a coach.
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“Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.” -Frank Tyger
“Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” -Frank Tyger
“If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift.” -Frank Tyger
“Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.” -Frank Tyger
“Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than two sides.” -Frank Tyger
Frank Tyger was born in 1929. Frank Tyger passed on in 2011.
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“Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin.” -Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus, also known as Gaius Cornelius Tacitus or simply as Tacitus, was born in about C.E. 56. He became an orator, a lawyer, a senator, a governor, and a historian of Ancient Rome. Publius Cornelius Tacitus passed on at about 64 years of age in about C.E. 120.
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“I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung.” -Rabindranath Tagore
“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” -Rabindranath Tagore
“The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.” -Rabindranath Tagore
“We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.” -Rabindranath Tagore
“You can’t cross a sea by merely staring into the water.” -Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore, also known as Ravīndranātha Thākura, was born as Rabindranath Thakur on 7 May 1861 in Calcutta (Kolkata), Bengal Presidency, British India. He became a poet, a short story writer, a song composer, a playwright, an essayist, a novelist, and a painter. He is known as the author of “Gitanjali,” “Gora,” “Ghare-Baire,” “Jana Gana Mana,” “Amar Shonar Bangla,” and other works. Rabindranath Tagore passed on at 80 years of age on 7 August 1941 in Calcutta (Kolkata), Bengal Presidency, British India.
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“The reason American cities are prosperous is that there is no place for people to sit down.” -Alfred J. Talley
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“Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.” -Greg Tamblyn
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“Our success or failure, peace or discontent, happiness or misery, depend on the choices we make each day.” -N. Eldon Tanner: ‘Thou Mayest Choose for Thyself,’ published in “Ensign” (July 1973) magazine, page 7
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“Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts.” -Tao Te Ching
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“One day at a time - this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.” -Ida Scott Taylor
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“Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.” -Bayard Taylor
James Bayard ‘Bayard’ Taylor was born on 11 January 1825 in Kennett Square, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. He became a poet, a literary critic, a translator, a travel writer, a novelist, and a diplomat. He is known for “Ximena, or the Battle of the Sierra Morena, and other Poems” (1844). James Bayard ‘Bayard’ Taylor passed on at 53 years of age on 19 December 1878 in Germany.
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“Never give up, great things take time.” -Cabi Taylor
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“The world knows nothing of its greatest men.” -Henry Taylor
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“The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic’s terrible.” -Jeff Taylor
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“No trial is joyous for the present but grievous to be borne; but trials yield their blessings, when patiently endured.” -John Taylor: “Journal of Discourses,” Volume 6, page 166 and 167
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“Instead of supposing that a work of art must be something that all can behold - a poem, a painting, a book, a great building - consider making your own life a work of art. You have yourself to begin with, and a time of uncertain duration to work on it. You do not have to be what you are, and even though you may be quite content with who you are, it will not be hard for you to think of something much greater that you might become. It need not be something spectacular or even something that will attract notice from others. What it will be is a kind of excellence that you project for yourself, and then attain - something that you can take a look at, with honest self-appraisal, and be proud of.” -Richard Taylor: “Restoring Pride: The Lost Virtue of Our Age” (1995), page 64
Richard Taylor was born on 5 November 1919 in Charlotte, Michigan, United States of America. He became a writer and a beekeeper. Richard Taylor passed on at 83 years of age on 30 October 2003 in Trumansburg, New York, United States of America.
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“When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light, for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food, and the joy of living.” -Tecumseh
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Life has loveliness to sell,
all beautiful and splendid things,
blue waves whitened on a cliff,
soaring fire that sways and sings,
and children’s faces looking up,
holding wonder like a cup.
-Sara Teasdale
“Look for a lovely thing and you will find it. It is not far- it never will be far.” -Sara Teasdale
Sara Teasdale Filsinger was born as Sara Trevor Teasdale on 8 August 1884 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States of America. She became a lyrical poet. Sara Teasdale Filsinger passed on at 48 years of age on 29 January 1933 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.” -William Temple: as attributed in John Timbs: “Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors” (1829), page 169
William Temple was born in 1881. He was an English theologian and archbishop. William Temple passed on in 1944.
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“If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.” -John Templeton
“It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something different from the majority.” -John Templeton
“Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.” -John Templeton
“Thanksgiving, not complaining, attracts people to you.” -John Marks Templeton
John Marks Templeton was born in 1912. He was an American-born British investor, banker, fund manager, and philanthropist. John Marks Templeton passed on in 2008.
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“Come my friends, ’tis not too late to seek a newer world.” -Alfred Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, also known as Lord Tennyson, was born on 6 August 1809 in Somersby, Lincolnshire, England. He was married to Emily Shellwood in 1850. With his brother, he wrote “Poems by Two Brothers” (1828). Alfred Tennyson succeeded William Wordsworth as England’s poet laureate on 19 November 1850 and held the post until his passing at 83 years of age on 6 October 1892 in Lurgashall, Sussex, England.
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“A word to the wise is sufficient.” [translation to English]
“Dictum sapienti sat est.” [original Latin]
-Terence
“An easy task becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.” -Terence
“Charity begins at home.” -Terence
“Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.” -Terence
“Fortune favors the brave.” -Terence
“I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.” -Terence
“Moderation in all things.” -Terence: “The Lady of Andros”
“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.” -Terence
“There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.” -Terence
“When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.” -Terence
“While there’s life, there’s hope.” -Terence
“You are a wise person if you can easily direct your attention to whatever needs it.” -Terence
Publius Terentius Afer, also known as Terence, was born in 185 B.C.E. He was a comic drama playwright of ancient Rome. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him, and impressed by his abilities, freed him. His comedies were performed for the first time sometime between about 170 B.C.E. and 160 B.C.E. Publius Terentius Afer passed on at about 26 years of age in 159 B.C.E.
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“Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.” -Valentina Tereshkova
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“People say you can’t herd cats. Well, yes you can if you move their food.” -Sharon Terry
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“Where our joy is, there should our work be.” -Tertullian
Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus, also known simply as Tertullian, was born in about C.E. 155 in Carthage, Tunisia. He was an early Christian theologian, polemicist, moralist, and writer from Carthage in the ancient Roman province of Africa. Tertullian passed on in about C.E. 240 in Carthage, Tunisia.
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“All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combatted, suppressed - only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.” -Nikola Tesla
“I don’t care that they stole my idea . . . I care that they don’t have any of their own.” -Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla was born on 9 July 1856 in Smiljan, Lika, Croatia. Nikola Tesla passed on at 86 years of age on 1 July 1943 in New York City, New York, United States of America.
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“Be patient with yourself. You are growing stronger every day. The weight of the world will become lighter . . . and you will begin to shine brighter. Don’t give up.” -Robert Tew
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“Know thyself.” [English translation]
“Nosce te ipsum.” [original Latin]
-Thales
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.” -Thales
Thales was born in C.E. 640. Thales passed on in C.E. 546.
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“It’s never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.” -Nancy Thayer
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“Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the Universe.” -Therese of Lisieux
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“Tell me how much you know of the sufferings of your fellow men and I will tell you how much you love them.” -Helmut Thielicke
Helmut Thielicke is a German theologian and preacher
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“Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.” -Danny Thomas
Danny Thomas is a pseudonym of Amos Jacobs Kairouz, sometimes shortened to Amos Jacobs, which is an anglicization of Amos Alphonsus Muzyad Yakhoob, and born as Amos Muzyad Yaqoob Kairouz on 6 January 1912 in Deerfield, Michigan, United States of America. He became a comedian, a singer, an actor, a producer, and a philanthropist. Amos Jacobs Kairouz passed on at 79 years of age on 6 February 1991 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America.
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“Pay attention to the basics.” -Dave Thomas
“Truly successful people are the ones who help others cross the finish line. Genuinely caring about people generally leads to success.” -Dave Thomas
Dave Thomas was the founder of Wendy’s restaurants.
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“Why is it that wherever I go the resident idiot heads straight for me?” -Gwynn Thomas
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“I feel that the most important step in any major accomplishment is setting a specific goal. This enables you to keep your mind focused on your goal and off the many obstacles that will arise when you’re striving to do your best.” -Kurt Thomas
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“Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.” -Dorothy Thompson
“When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default, it can never be recovered.” -Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompson was born in 1894. Dorothy Thompson passed on in 1961.
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“With Paine’s “The Rights of Man,” “The Pilgrim’s Progress” is one of the foundation documents of the working class movement.” -E. P. Thompson: “The Making of the English Working Class”
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“A ring on the finger is worth two on the phone.” -Harold Thompson
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“The only normal way to begin speaking in a new language is to begin speaking badly.” -Greg Thomson
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“If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning.” -Brad Thor
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“Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.” -Edward Thorndike
Edward Lee Thorndike was born on 31 August 1874. He was an American psychologist. Edward Lee Thorndike passed on at 74 years of age on 9 August 1949.
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“In every home and everywhere, there are reasons to forbear; faults forgiven with every pair would make a world happy and fair.” -J. J. Thorne
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“I proclaim that justice is nothing else than the interest of the stronger.” -Thrasymachus
Thrasymachus lived in the 5th century B.C.E. He was a philosopher of ancient Greece.
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“Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.” -Thucydides: “History of the Peloponnesian War”
“Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome.” -Thucydides
Thucydides was born in about 460 B.C.E. He was a historian of ancient Greece Thucydides passed on in about 395 B.C.E.
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“A lady of forty-seven who has been married twenty seven years and has six children knows what love really is and once described it for me like this: Love is what you’ve been through with somebody.” -James Thurber
“A pinch of probably is worth a pound of perhaps.” -James Thurber
“Let us not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.” -James Thurber
James Grover Thurber was born in 1894. He was blind in one eye from a childhood accident. He became an American writer, humorist, and cartoonist, working for “The New Yorker” (1933 - 1961). James Grover Thurber passed on in 1961.
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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” -Howard Thurman
Howard Thurman was born in 1900. He became a clergyman and an educator. Howard Thurman passed on in 1981.
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“Don’t wait for inspiration. Take action! Action generates inspiration.” -Frank Tibolt
Tibolt, Frank. Frank Tibolt was born in 1897. Frank Tibolt passed on in 1989.
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“Above all, train hard, eat light, and avoid TV and people with negative attitudes.” -Scott Tinley
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“It is better to be old-fashioned and right than to be up-to-date and wrong.” -Tiorio
“You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you.” -Tiorio
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“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” -J. R. R. Tolkien: “The Fellowship of the Ring” (1954)
“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.” -J. R. R. Tolkien: “The Fellowship of the Ring” (1954)
“He [Bilbo] used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. ‘It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,’ he used to say. ‘You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.’” -J. R. R. Tolkien: “The Fellowship of the Ring” (1954)
“It’s the job that’s never started that takes longest to finish.” -J. R. R. Tolkien
“Not all those who wander are lost.” -J. R. R. Tolkien: “The Lord of the Rings” (1954)
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, also known as J. R. R. Tolkien, was born in 1892 in South Africa. He became an English professor, a linguist, and a novelist. He is known as the author of “The Hobbit” (1937) and “Lord of the Rings” (1954). John Ronald Reuel Tolkien passed on in 1973.
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“Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.” -Eckhart Tolle
“Instead of fighting the darkness, you bring in the light.” -Eckhart Tolle -Eckhart Tolle
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.”
Eckhart Tolle is a pseudonym of Ulrich Leonard Tölle, who was born on 16 February 1948 in Lünen, Dortmund, Germany. He is a Canadian writer and professional speaker. Known as the author of books including “The Power of Now.” Website https://eckharttolle.com/.
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“I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.” -Lily Tomlin
“I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.” -Lily Tomlin
“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.” -Lily Tomlin
“The road to success is always under construction.” -Lily Tomlin
Lily Tomlin is a pseudonym of Mary Jean Tomlin, who was born in 1939. She is an American actress and comedian, some of whose material was written for her by Jane Wagner.
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“We see things not as they are, but as we are.” -H. M. Tomlinson
Henry M. Tomlinson was born in 1873. He was an English novelist and journalist. Henry M. Tomlinson passed on in 1958.
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“You must love and think about your work if you are to make a success of it and make it pay.” -Elizabeth Towne
Elizabeth Towne was born in 1860. She was the founder and editor of the New Thought movement “Nautilus Magazine,” in which she published many articles by Wallace Wattles. She became a new thought writer and a publisher. Elizabeth Towne passed on in 1965.
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“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” -Atwood H. Townsend
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“How do you spot a leader? They come in all ages, shapes and conditions. Some are poor administrators, some are not overly bright. One clue: the true leader can be recognized because somehow his people consistently turn in superior performances.” -Robert Townsend
“If people are coming to work excited . . . if they’re making mistakes freely and fearlessly . . . if they’re having fun . . . if they’re concentrating on doing things, rather than preparing reports and going to meetings - then somewhere you have leaders.” -Robert Townsend
Robert Townsend was born in 1819. He was an American Navy Civil War era ship captain. Robert Townsend passed on in 1866.
Townsend, Robert. Robert Townsend was born in 1920.
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“Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.” -Arnold J. Toynbee
“Historically, religion came first and science grew out of religion. Science has never superseded religion, and it is my expectation that it never will.” -Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold Joseph Toynbee was born on 14 April 1889 in London, England. He became a historian. Arnold Joseph Toynbee passed on at 86 years of age on 22 October 1975 in York, England.
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“In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and the job’s a game.” -P. L. Travers: “Mary Poppins”
“When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life.” -P. L. Travers
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“The only way to know your true nature is through the actions you take in the real world, not through meditations or introspection.” -Doc Trejo
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“Don’t bother about genius. Don’t worry about being clever. Trust to hard work, perseverance, and determination. And the best motto for a long march is: ‘Don’t grumble. Plug on!’” -Frederick Treves
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“Happiness is the sense that one matters.” -Sarah Trimmer
Sarah Kirby Trimmer was born in 1741. She was an English writer of children’s books, educational material, and textbooks. Sarah Kirby Trimmer passed on in 1810.
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“Buying and selling is good and necessary, it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good, but it cannot be the noblest work of man, and let us hope that in our time it may not be esteemed the noblest work of an Englishman.” -Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope was born in 1815 as a son of Frances Trollope. He was married to Rose Hesletine in 1844. He became an English novelist. Anthony Trollope passed on in 1882.
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“Sometimes you can’t get as much attention with a yell as you can with a whisper.” -Gary D. Trump
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“Though time and miles may separate us, I have built a bridge of lovely memories to span the distance.” -Virginia Tubbs
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“If you’re not enjoying the journey, you probably won’t enjoy the destination.” -Joe Tye
Joe Tye is a motivational speaker and a coach.
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“Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.” -Frank Tyger
“Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness.” -Frank Tyger
“If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift.” -Frank Tyger
“Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.” -Frank Tyger
“Listening to both sides of a story will convince you that there is more to a story than two sides.” -Frank Tyger
Frank Tyger was born in 1929. Frank Tyger passed on in 2011.
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