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  • Viktor E. Frankl Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Arthur Hiller Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.
    Arthur Hiller
    Canadian-American television and film director (1923 - 2016)
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  • Bill McKibben Our criteria is that it's okay to invest in companies so long as they stop lobbying in Washington, stop exploring for new hydrocarbons, and sit down with every one else to plan to keep 80 percent of the reserves in the ground.
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bhagat Singh Our entire family is replete with sentiments of patriotism. Uncle Swarna Singh left for his heavenly abode in jail in 1910, two or three years after my birth. Uncle Ajit Singh is leading the life of an exile in foreign countries.
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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  • Abraham Clark Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.
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  • Ryszard Kapuscinski Our job is like a baker's work - his rolls are tasty as long as they're fresh; after two days they're stale; after a week, they're covered with mould and fit only to be thrown out.
    Ryszard Kapuscinski
    Polish foreign correspondent and journalist (1932 - 2007)
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  • James Allen Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • J. B. Priestley Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats.
    J. B. Priestley
    English novelist, playwright and scriptwriter (1894 - 1984)
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  • Dr. Walter Smith Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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  • Bruce Springsteen Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan
    His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man
    He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop
    He said, Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.
    Working On A Dream (2009) Outlaw Pete
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Booth Tarkington Out of the north Atlantic a January storm came down in the night, sweeping the American coast with wind and snow and sleet upon a great oblique front from Nova Scotia to the Delaware capes.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Carl Honore Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Bliss Carman Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Robert Anthony Overcoming fear and worry can be accomplished by living a day at a time or even a moment at a time. Your worries will be cut down to nothing.
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • Seneca Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Anna Freud Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Richard Deupree Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently
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