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• Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Names, Heaven, Doctrine

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.19, editionNEXT.com

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• America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who - with their hands, their intelligence and their heart - built the greatest nation in the world: "Come, and everything will be given to you." She said: "Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent."

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Country, Heart, Men

  "Renewing the French-American Alliance". www.realclearpolitics.com. November 7, 2007.

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• New information and communications technologies can improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, but only if such technologies are designed from the beginning so that everyone can use them. Given the explosive growth in the use of the World Wide Web for publishing, electronic commerce, lifelong learning and the delivery of government services, it is vital that the Web be accessible to everyone.

  William J. Clinton

  Communication, Technology, Government

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• A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

  Frank Herbert

  Creativity, Men, Creating

  "Shoptalk: learning to write with writers". Book by Donald Morison Murray, 1990.

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• I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.

  Bobby Robson

  Funny, Music, Motivation

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• Up to now, men and women have not been living in relationship - because woman has never been thought equal. And relationship exists only between equal people; it cannot happen between unequal people. Unless woman is given total freedom, absolute equality, there will be no possibility to relate. Up to now, man has exploited woman, woman has exploited man; there has not been real relationship.

  Rajneesh

  Relationship, Real, Men

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• Whatever the needs of family members may be, we can strengthen our families as we follow the counsel given by prophets.

  Robert D. Hales

  Family, Needs, May

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• Miss Manners herself, while never rude, is given to pulling a fast pinch in the way of a handshake on those who believe in kissing on, not even the first date, but the first sighting.

  Judith Martin

  Believe, Kissing, Missing

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• When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place [if we anticipate and look for it, rather than wallow in our 'supposed loss'. It can be helpful to think of the loss of that blessing as simply necessary to make way for another different blessing].

  C. S. Lewis

  Loss, Blessing, Thinking

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• It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

  Winston Churchill

  Events, Would Be, Anticipation

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

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• Failing is a judgment that we humans place on a given action. Rather than judgment, substitute this attitude: You cannot fail, you can only produce results.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivation, Attitude, Action

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• Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift is given.

  Julian of Norwich

  Positive, Cheer, Heart

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• Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

  King Edward VIII

  Opportunity, Two, Feet

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• When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it with some celebrated name, on the chance of reclaiming it if it took. Thus he assigned to Talleyrand, in the "Nain Jaune," the phrase, "Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts."

  Louis Edouard Fournier

  Men, Names, Phrases

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 740-45, L'Esprit dans l'Histoire, 1922.

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• It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

  Al Jourgensen

  Second Chance, Kicking, Want

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• Gratitude is usually generated in one of two ways. One, by feeling a genuine appreciation for the life that you were given and, two, by making a conscious decision to practice looking at what's right in your life rather than focusing on what's missing.

  Alex Green

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Practice

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• The one thing you can’t take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given circumstance.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Gratitude, Attitude, Grateful

  Choosing Optimism When Pessimism Would Be Easier" by Jason Mannino, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 9, 2009.

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• "...All events are blessings given to us to learn from and therefore we should be grateful for the opportunity to grow and evolve into our best selves."

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Gratitude, Grateful, Blessing

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• One can learn to focus on "opportunity" as the gift within every given moment. This attitude towards life always improves the situation. Even in times of sickness, someone who habitually practices grateful living will look for the opportunity that a given moment offers and use it creatively.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Gratitude, Attitude, Grateful

  "Is Gratitude the Path to a Better World?". Interview with Jill Suttie, greatergood.berkeley.edu. May 29, 2013.

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• The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude especially an attitude of gratitude in a given set of circumstances especially in difficult circumstances.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Gratitude, Attitude, Lasts

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• I surrender this rifle to you through my young son, whom I now desire to teach in this manner that he has become a friend of the Americans. I wish him to learn the habits of the whites and to be educated as their sons are educated. I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. This boy has given it to you, and he now wants to know how he is going to make a living.

  Sitting Bull

  Son, Boys, Men

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• There is little doubt that, until 1846 when he helped to engineer the resignation of Robert Peel, Disraeli was driven by an ambition to make his mark rather than by any consistent political purpose, and that his attacks on Peel would have not have been so mounted had he been given in 1841 the office for which he had asked.

  Christopher Hibbert

  Ambition, History, Office

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• At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

  Julia Ormond

  People, Scary, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel much better, now that I've given up hope.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Brilliant, Feels, Better Now

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• Wisdom is not about what you know, but how you know it. If knowledge is a measure of the grasp an individual has of a given subject, wisdom is a measure of his grip. Does he hold his ideas lightly or loosely? Will he let go when they show signs of wear or inappropriateness?

  Andrew Hargadon

  Letting Go, Knowledge, Ideas

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