Excerpts of Citations
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There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
~James Thurber
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The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
~Horace Walpole
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
~Marilyn vos Savant
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
~Henry David Thoreau
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There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.~Oliver Wendell Holmes
from The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858 -
Hope is only the love of life.
~Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'
~Dan Parker
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The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
~Frank Lloyd Wright
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ever again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day m...
~Og Mandino
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You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or a path, it is someone else’s path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else’s way, you...
~Joseph Campbell
from A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living -
Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of pa...
~Hermann Goering
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You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage—pleasantly, smilingly, nonapologetically, to say "no" to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger "yes"...
~Stephen R. Covey
from The Seven Habits of Highly Effctive People -
Reshape yourself through the power of your will... Those who have conquered themselves...live in peace, alike in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, praise and blame... To such people a clod of dirt,...
~Krishna
from Bagavad Gita -
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
~Sydney Smith
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You cannot bring about prosperity
By discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak
By weakening the strong.
You cannot help the wage&...~Abraham Lincoln
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You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unma...~Franz Kafka