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  • Helen Schucman Dreams show you that you have the power...
    Helen Schucman
    American psychologist
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  • Joyce Brothers Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.
    Joyce Brothers
    American psychologist and columnist (1927 - 2013)
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  • Bruce Lee Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Walt Disney All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.
    How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life (2004)
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Hans Selye Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.
    Hans Selye
    Hungarian-Canadian endocrinologist and scientist (1907 - 1982)
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  • W. Clement Stone Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Jonathan Swift A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Karl Albrecht The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully.
    Karl Albrecht
    German entrepreneur (1920 - 2014)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays I have only just a minute. Only sixty seconds in it. Forced upon me, can't refuse it. Didn't seek it, didn't choose it. But it's up to me to use it. I must suffer if I lose it. Give account if I abuse it, Just a tiny little minute but eternity is in it.
    As quoted in "Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography", Mays constantly recited to his students this anonymous poem.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Aristotle All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bette Davis Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Sigmund Freud The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?''
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • George Bernard Shaw As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aristotle First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Günter Grass We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
    Günter Grass
    German writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1999) (1927 - 2015)
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