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| The Magic Keys
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
-- W. Clement Stone
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| Reality
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.
-- Colin Powell
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| Proverbs 3:2-4
Tune your ears to wisdom,
and concentrate on understanding.
Cry out for insight,
and ask for understanding.
Search for them as you would for silver;
seek them like hidden treasures.
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| The Greater Danger
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
-- Michelangelo
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| Knowledge vs. Wisdom
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience ...
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| A Mighty Oak
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.
-- David Icke
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| Being Enough
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
-- John C. Maxwell
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| Discipline
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
-- Jim Rohn
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| The Future
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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| How to Act
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
-- John Wooden
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| Chicken Tongues
Q: Why did the chicken say, "Meow, oink, bow-wow, moo?"
A: He was studying foreign languages.
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| A Journey
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
-- Lao Tzu
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| Leave a Trail
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| Balancing Act
Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.
-- Dr. Seuss
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| Earn It
The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.
-- Ginger Rogers
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| Fight for It
It is not my place to offer pep talks, aphorisms, or dictums. But if I had to give one piece of practical advice it would be this: Find something that you love that they're fucking with and then fight for it. If everyone did that--imagine the difference.
-- ...
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| Boring Adults
Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your ...
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| True Education
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
-- Carl Rogers
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| A Fish
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
-- Maimonides
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| Consumption
We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.
M.T. Anderson
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| Truly Blessed
I existed on my own terms. I was different my entire life. Some called me divergent, wild, crazy, unpredictable and unconformed—an apostate to the rules of the majority. I called myself God’s creation and found purpose in the madness. When that day came, I ...
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| Freedom without Effort
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, ...
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| Silence
To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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| Fighting Reality
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
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| Action
It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what ...
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