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  • John Dewey To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Anna Pavlova To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.
    Anna Pavlova
    Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the (1881 - 1931)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Johnson To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Alan Paton To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Berthold Auerbach To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Lord George Byron To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Thomas E. Lawrence To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail.
    Thomas E. Lawrence
    British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer (1888 - 1935)
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  • Joan Didion To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Zsa Zsa Gabor To have twenty lovers in one year is easy. To have one lover for twenty years is difficult.
    Zsa Zsa Gabor
    American actrice (1917 - 2016)
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  • Brendon Burchard To inspire a singularity of focus, a challenge must be important to you and it must be something you feel you should do now in this moment. If it's trivial or not time-bound, you won't engage. So in selecting your next challenge in life, choose one that is meaningful and will demand your complete concentration.
    Brendon Burchard
    American author (1977 - )
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  • Elvis Presley To judge a man by his weakest link or deed is like judging the power of the ocean by one wave.
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    Elvis Presley
    American singer, musician, and actor (1935 - 1977)
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  • Marquis de Sade To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Albert Camus To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Lao-Tzu To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Wilma Scott To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine.
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