Quotes 141 till 160 of 683.
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Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier - certainly no more difficult - than small ideas and small plans.
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Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
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Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.
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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
Walden (1854) -
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
Wolkenatlas (2008) 357 -
Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs.
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But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.
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By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
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By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism.
Legend (2011) 33 -
Cards were at first for benefits designed, sent to amuse, not to enslave the mind.
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Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.
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Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
The Stories of David Leavitt (2013) 4 -
Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
Caspar David Friedrich: line and transparency (1984) -
Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.
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Corrupted freemen are the worst of slaves.
Proloog to The Gamesters -
Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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Creative life is characterized by spontaneous mutability: it brings forth unknown issues, impossible to preconceive.
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