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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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  • Oscar Wilde To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Johnson To hear complaints is tiresome to the miserable and the happy.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carl Honore To help staff recharge and think better, companies are setting aside quiet places to relax, practise yoga or even take a nap. With hi-tech giants such as Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft underlining the pitfalls of being 'always on,' firms are imposing speed limits on the information superhighway.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson To hunger for use and to go unused is the worst hunger of all.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Guillaume Apollinaire To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Italian-born French poet, critic (1880 - 1918)
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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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  • Matthew Prior To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Anton Chekhov To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Aldo Leopold To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
    Aldo Leopold
    American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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  • Buddha To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Henry David Thoreau To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Albert Einstein To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Confucius To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Samuel Johnson To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Sallust To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison To live exhilaratingly in and for the moment is deadly serious work, fun of the most exhausting sort.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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