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  • To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things
  • You always take a little bit back with you at the end of the day. I always put a little bit of myself into the characters, too. You find parallels, points of connection, things like that. But I'm not an actor who gets so incredibly haunted by my characters that I can't come back.
  • Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back.
  • It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
  • That feeling is one of the things that keep me going. On July 6, 1998, I became the WCW heavyweight champion of the world!
  • For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.
  • I really dig the scene that's happening now, I really do, because there might be a lot of bad things going on, but if out of all of those bad things ten per cent of the groovy part of it stays, wow... you can't beat that.
  • A mathematical proof is beautiful, but when you're finished, it's really only about one thing. A story can be about many things.
  • I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.
  • I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
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  • Confucius To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • C. S. Lewis Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Vincent Van Gogh But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
    Vincent Van Gogh
    Dutch painter (1853 - 1890)
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  • Les Brown Choosing goals that are important to you is one of the most essential things you can do in order to live your dreams.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • John Simon Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
    John Simon
     
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Henry David Thoreau How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Philip Adams It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
    Philip Adams
    British career diplomat. (1915 - 2001)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Morarji Desai It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
    Morarji Desai
     
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  • Walt Disney We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Meister Eckhart A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Og Mandino Do all things with love.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Epicurus Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • John W. Gardner Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
    John W. Gardner
    American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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  • Robert Frost Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • André Gide I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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