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  • Denis Waitley Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • O. S. Hawkins Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to ''enjoy favor with all the people.'' The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!
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  • Confucius Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Matthew Arnold Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • George Orwell So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Carl Sagan Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 467
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Cato the Elder Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Ronald Reagan Status quo, you know, that is Latin for ''the mess we're in.''
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Michael Korda Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the only quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Og Mandino Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Alfred Adler The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • John Ruskin The great cry that rises from all our manufacturing cities, louder than the furnace blast, is all in very deed for this - that we manufacture everything there except men.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Anne Perry The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • William Hazlitt The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Joseph Addison The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Omar Khayyam The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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