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| Believe in Yourself
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
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| Debt is Unpatriotic
Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt 'unpatriotic' - serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer.
Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all ...
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| Pursuit of Happiness
The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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| Prosperity
The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.
-- Elvis Presley
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| Worry
As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.
-- Julius Caesar
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| On Prevailing
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.
-- Christopher Columbus
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| Dying Ice
The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying.
-- James Balog
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| Ignorant People
We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition. Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction. Ambition and intrigue abuses the credulity and ...
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| Accept Yourself
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
-- Henry A. Kissinger
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| Honesty
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
-- Isaac Asimov
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| It Tolls for Thee
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
-- John Donne
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| Deadlines
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
-- Douglas Adams
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| The Present
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
-- Donald Trump
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| Excuses
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
-- Benjamin Franklin
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| Laziness
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
-- Lech Walesa
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| Fatherhood
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
-- Walter Scott
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| Organized Religion
We need to stop giving people excuses not to believe in God. You've probably heard the expression 'I believe in God, just not organized religion'. I don't think people would say that if the church truly lived like we are called to live.
-- Francis Chan ...
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| What Matters
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away ...
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| He Never Changes
Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
-- George Washington Carver
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| Quality and Quantity
It’s not that quantity beats quality, so much as it breeds quality. The more you produce the better you become at producing.
-- John Sonmez
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| Aim High
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
-- Robert Browning
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| Living Too Long
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
-- Fidel Castro
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| Athletic Creation
As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.
-- Katarina Witt
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| Fiscal Goal
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
-- Thomas Sowell
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| Love Is...
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
-- Saint-Exupery
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