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• Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, He Man, Dare

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “Crime and Punishment: Dostoevsky's Collections”, p.372, 谷月社

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• To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.

  Bruce McCulloch

  Party, Doors, Talking

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• Perhaps imagination is only intelligence having fun.

  George Scialabba

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

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• You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Spiritual, Know Yourself, Ramifications

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• Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond... the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy.

  John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley

  Giving Up, Humor, Purpose

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• ...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

  Mark Twain

  Travel, Humor, Men

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (1948). “Mark Twain at your fingertips”

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• Doing is better than not doing, and if you do something badly you'll learn to do it better.

  Twyla Tharp

  Humor, Ifs

  Twyla Tharp, Mark Reiter (2003). “The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life”, Simon and Schuster

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• When you come right down to it, the secret to having it all is loving it all.

  Joyce Brothers

  Humor, Secret

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• No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Roots, Tree

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.82, Princeton University Press

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• You can be sincere and still be stupid.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stupid, Ignorance, Sincere

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without deep thought and hard work.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Hard Work, Worthwhile, Hard

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• The devil told my mind that my thoughts held no power; and this seemed true until my thoughts I began to speak.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Mind, Devil, Speak

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• If you start embracing life's storms instead of hiding away from them, you'll stop fearing them all together; it is this way one becomes immovable.

  Stefanie Schneider

  Storm, Together, Way

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• Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

  David White

  Order, Goal, Needs

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• You will find God in the church of your choice.

  Bob Dylan

  Choices, Church

  Song: Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie

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• Single-minded devotion engenders deep thought, which expresses itself in action. The Lord's Light descends on the devotee, His power awakens in him and, as a result, profound inner inquiry blossoms forth.

  Anandamayi Ma

  Light, Profound, Inquiry

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• Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Art, Humor, Merit

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• In brief, sir, study what you most affect.

  William Shakespeare

  Fun, Humor, Taming

  'The Taming Of The Shrew' (1592) act 1, sc. 1, l. 39

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• The believer speaks little and does a lot, whereas the hypocrite speaks a lot and does little. When the believer speaks, it is with wisdom, when he is silent, it is in deep thought, when he sees, he takes lessons, and when he acts, it is a cure. If this is the way you are, then you are in the constant worship [of your Lord.]

  Abu Nu`aym

  Hypocrite, Doe, Lessons

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• To think deeply in our culture is to grow angry and to anger others; and if you cannot tolerate this anger, you are wasting the time you spend thinking deeply. One of the rewards of deep thought is the hot glow of anger at discovering a wrong, but if anger is taboo, thought will starve to death.

  Jules Henry

  Thinking, Rewards, Hot

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• You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spirituality

  "'What Is the Soul?' Eckhart Tolle's Answer". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 8, 2012.

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• Selling to people who actually want to hear from you is more effective than interrupting strangers who don't.

  Seth Godin

  Motivation, People, Marketing

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• I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

  Plato

  Im Sorry, Apology, Men

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, Xist Publishing

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• Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

  Plato

  Plato, Philosophical, Ignorance

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• If you want to feel good, be rational.

  Ayn Rand

  Humor, Feel Good, Want

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