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• People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.

  Tim Ferriss

  Powerful, Successful, People

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• Time and tide wait for no man.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Inspirational, Birthday, Time

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• The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well. The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Life, Success, Fashion

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• That experience is the parent of wisdom is an adage the truth of which is recognized by the wisest as well as the simplest of mankind.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Parent, Human Nature, Mankind

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.137, Rowman & Littlefield

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• That adage about genius being 5 percent inspiration and 95 perspiration - it's true.

  Yanni

  Inspiration, Genius, Percent

  Yanni, David Rensin (2003). “Yanni in Words”, Miramax Books

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• It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

  Randy Travis

  Death, Country, Song

  Song: Three Wooden Crosses, Album: Rise and Shine

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• A wound gets worse when it's treated with neglect.

  Stevie Nicks

  Neglect, Treated, Wounds

  Song: Talk To Me, Album: Rock a Little

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• Knowledge is the power, the cowards get devoured.

  Big Boi

  Coward

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• If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Wise, Walks, Grows

  Song: Walk With The Wise, Album: The Great Adventure

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• Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.

  Billy Joel

  Silence, Code, Following

  Song: Code Of Silence, Album: The Bridge, 1986

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• It'll never go away until the fear you are running from is finally embraced.

  Garth Brooks

  Running, Going Away

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• Fool you once, you are forgiven. Fool you twice, you're just a fool.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Fool, Forgiven

  Song: The Better To Dream Of You, Album: A Place In The World, 1996

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• Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name.

  Robert Palmer

  Sunshine, Men, Names

  Song: Every Kinda People

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• Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.

  Pete Townshend

  Blood, Giving, May

  Song: Give Blood, Album: White City: A Novel

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• Give out some love and you'll find peace sublime.

  Marvin Gaye

  Giving, Sublime, Finding Peace

  Song: Right On, Album: What's Going On, 1971

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• It doesn't matter who you are, it's what you do that takes you far.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Matter, Who You Are

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• In your fear, seek only peace. In your fear, seek only love.

  David Bowie

  Only Love

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• If you will, then you will, for nothing can withstand your will. As your faith is, so you are, where your mind is there you are.

  Todd Rundgren

  Mind, Ifs

  Song: Flesh, Album: Healing

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• If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Faces, Tomorrow, Plans

  Song: Race Among The Ruins, Album: Summertime Dream

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• If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.

  Van Morrison

  Live Life, Love You, Blessing

  Song: Whenever God Shines His Light With Sir Cliff Richard, Album: Avalon Sunset

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• If you choose to criticize, you choose your enemies.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Enemy, Criticize, You Choose

  Song: You're No Different

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• Everybody's looking for a good time. Don't you know a good time doesn't hurt?

  Ashlee Simpson

  Hurt, Good Times, Knows

  Song: Get Nasty

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• I've always been the kind of person that doesn't like to trespass, but sometimes you just find yourself over the line.

  Bob Dylan

  Finding Yourself, Lines, Kind

  Song: Brownsville Girl, Album: Knocked Out Loaded

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• Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.

  Paul McCartney

  Sometimes, Minutes

  Song: Silly Love Songs Reprise

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• The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable posession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?

  Thomas Huxley

  Real, Believe, Knowledge

  'Collected Essays' vol. 3 (1895) 'On Elementary Instruction in Physiology' (written 1877)

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