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Orison Swett Marden
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.
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Henry Louis Mencken
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Voltaire
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
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Herbert W. Boyer
Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.
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John Lennon
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted.
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Menander
Being a man, ne'er ask the gods for a life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.
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Oscar Wilde
The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
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S Hayakawa
Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, 'I have failed three times,' and what happens when he says, 'I'm a failure.'
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Robert W. Sarnoff
Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.
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Henry Ward Beecher
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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