Sunday, August 1, 2010

Quotes '10b

"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that."
— Michael Leunig

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"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn."
- Joseph Addison

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"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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"Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will eventually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to writing a good book is to write on that which people like you will enjoy."

-- Richard North Patterson

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"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Mark Twain

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"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."
- John F. Kennedy

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"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Albert Schweitzer

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"That love is all there is, Is all we know of love."
- Emily Dickinson

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain

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"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself."
- Ywami Vivekananda

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"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe."
- Robert Service

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"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."
- Buddha

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"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."
- Marilyn Monroe

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"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."
- Bruce Lee

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"Great things are done when men and mountains meet."
- William Blake

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"Luck and strength go together. When you get lucky, you have to have the strength to follow through. You also have to have the strength to wait for the luck."

- Mario Puzo

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"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
— Gandhi

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"Education gets in my way of learning."
- Albert Einstein

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"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

- Steve Jobs

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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison

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"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."

- Mark Twain

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"Nothing will work unless you do."
-- Maya Angelou

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"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step toward knowledge."
Benjamin Disraeli

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"You create your opportunities by asking for them."

--Shakti Gawain

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"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."

-- Stanislaw Lec

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"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."
-- William Osler

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"Tough times never last, but tough people do."
-- Robert H. Schuller

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"The best way to predict the future is to create it."
-- Peter Drucker

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"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."
- Mark Twain

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"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."
- Thomas Carlyle

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"Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful"
-Mark Twain

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"Education gets in my way of learning."
- Albert Einstein

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Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
- Steve Jobs

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"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison

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"Things do not happen. Things are made to happen."
- John F. Kennedy

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Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
— Albert Schweitzer

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"That love is all there is, Is all we know of love."
— Emily Dickinson

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"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself."
— Swami Vivekanand

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"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out, it's the grain of sand in your shoe."
— Robert Service

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"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."
— Buddha

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"I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."
— Marilyn Monroe

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"To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities."
— Bruce Lee

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"Great things are done when men and mountains meet."
— William Blake

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"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
— Gandhi

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"What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?"
— Robert Browning

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"Be more. Do less. The Divine achieves without toil, without exertion."
— Philip Arnold

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"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"Him to whom you pray is closer to you than the neck of your camel."
— Muhammada

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"I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart."
— Anne Frank

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"Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness."
— James Thurber

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"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
— Matthew 5:9

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"The dumbest people I know are those who know it all."
— Malcolm Forbes

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"We are always the same age inside."
--Gertrude Stein

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"Who among us does not move through life with the hidden sense,
maybe even quiet desperation, that we are destined for more?
That underneath our ordinary exterior lays an extraordinary
soul? That given the right opportunity, the right stage, the
right audience, we would shine as the stars we truly are?"
--Peter Bregman

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"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
-Marie Curie

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"Love is a friendship set to music."
- E. Joseph Cossman

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"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."
-- Beverly Sills

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"If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win."
- Carl Lewis

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"You only ever grow as a human being if you're outside your comfort zone."
- Percy Cerutty