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  • Henry David Thoreau One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • George Herbert Allen One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
    George Herbert Allen
    American football coach (1918 - 1990)
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  • Les Brown One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Andrew Cohen One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Bill Viola One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don't say 'insecure' in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: 'Are they good enough?' 'Is this the right thing to do?' I really beat myself up over that.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Dale Carnegie One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Karl Menninger One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
    Karl Menninger
    American psychiatrist ( - 1990)
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  • Christopher Morley One of the odd things about being in a hurry is that it seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.
    Source: Pipefuls
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • John Ruskin One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Josh Billings One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bode Miller One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Bee Wilson One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Finley Peter Dunne One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Edgar W. Howe One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Salman Rushdie One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Margaret Thatcher One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Burgess Owens One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Ben Whishaw One of the things I find very difficult about theatre is the repetition - that something can slide away from your original intentions.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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