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  • Ben Sweetland The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
    Ben Sweetland
    American psychologist and author
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  • Bill Hicks The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they sa
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great - quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • William Hazlitt The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Samuel Johnson The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John Mortimer The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's not for you.''
    John Mortimer
    English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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  • Francis Bacon The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Hillary Clinton The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
    Hillary Clinton
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Ben Okri The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Jarrell The writer's real dishonesty is to give an easy paraphrase of the hard truth.
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  • Cate Blanchett Theater is a space where you cross over from everyday life, because there are real people in that moment moving in front of you - you're being invited to believe in a story and cross that bridge.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Billy Boyd Then there are actors my age like Ethan Hawke, he's in 'Moby Dick,' I love his work. I've been lucky. Alfred Molina, he has real class.
    Billy Boyd
    Scottish actor and musician (1968 - )
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Beyonce Knowles There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There are books ... which take rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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