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| Saturdays
If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.
-- Hunter S. Thompson
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| Adversity
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
-- Walt Disney
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| Learning Wisdom
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
-- Confucius
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| Be a Friend
Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
-- Albert Camus
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| Secrecy
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
-- Jeremy Bentham
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| Security
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| Utopia
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.
-- Henry Kissinger
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| Wrinkles
We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.
-- Lauren Hutton
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| Living Well
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
-- Voltaire
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| True Destiny
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
-- Thomas Merton
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| Technology and Voices
There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this ...
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| A Living
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
-- Mark Twain
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| Leadership in Review
Leadership can not be measured in a poll or even in the result of an election. It can only be truly seen with the benefit of time. From the perspective of 20 years, not 20 days.
-- Marco Rubio
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| Mismanagement
The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
-- Milton Friedman
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| Fuel
We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently.
-- Thomas Friedman
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| Meaningful Work
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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| Forgiveness
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw ...
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| Magic Talismans
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
-- John Quincy Adams
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| The Most
The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.
-- Howard Cosell
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| Scaring People
You wanna know what scares people? Success. When you don't make moves and when you don't climb up the ladder, everybody loves you because you're not competition.
-- Nicki Minaj
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| Dream Castles
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
-- Henry David Thoreau
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| End of War
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon ...
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| Purification
A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| Battle
Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence ...
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| Legalism
The ironic thing about legalism is that it not only doesn't make people work harder, it makes them give up. Moralism doesn't produce morality; rather, it produces immorality.
-- Tullian Tchividjian
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