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  • Henry David Thoreau How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Philip Adams It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
    Philip Adams
    British career diplomat. (1915 - 2001)
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  • Bertrand Russell Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Camille Paglia Men are run ragged by female sexuality all their lives. From the beginning of his life to the end, no man ever fully commands any woman. It's an illusion. Men are pussy-whipped. And they know it. That's what the strip clubs are about; not woman as victim, not woman as slave, but woman as goddess.
    Source: As quoted in Sexuality and Gender (2002)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Joseph Addison Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Denis Waitley A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • John Adams As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Don Delillo Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Eileen Caddy Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Stephen Hawking However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Walter Cronkite I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
    Walter Cronkite
    American broadcast journalist (1916 - 2009)
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  • Les Brown Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Joseph Addison Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Joseph Addison One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • John Patrick Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
    Source: The Teahouse of the August Moon act I, scene i, p. 6
    John Patrick
    English playwright and screenwriter (1905 - 1995)
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  • J. Adams The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Cato the Elder We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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