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• To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Time, Stress, Humor

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• Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

  James Bovard

  Humor, Two, Democracies Have

  James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.333, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

  Martin Heidegger

  Death, Truth, Philosophical

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• To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Hope, Hoping For The Best, Cease

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• The Ultimate Answer to Life, The Universe and Everything is...42!

  Douglas Adams

  Life, Answers, Ultimate Questions

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• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Peace, War

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• Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Meaningful, Work, Men

  "Fire Up Your Life: Living with Nothing to Hide, Nothing to Prove, Nothing to Lose". Book by Ken Davis (p. 31), 1995.

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• When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Looks, Abyss, Peace Justice

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.279, Modern Library

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• Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

  Alan Watts

  Self Esteem, Humor, Trying

  Life Magazine, April 21, 1961.

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  Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Quoted in Francis Carpenter, Six Months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln (1866)

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• The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Change, Powerful

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• The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Happiness, Humor

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.99, Penguin

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• Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Mean, Science

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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• When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Humor, Men

  "Kurt Vonnegut: In His Own Words". The Times (London), April 12, 2007.

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• What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Happiness, Lying

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Book, Reading

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• No pressure, no diamonds.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Uplifting, Good Life, Failure

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• The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Inspiration, Humor

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• Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

  Aristotle

  Teacher, Teaching, Humor

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