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Friendship Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe it anyway. A real friend never gets in your way, unless you happen to be on the way down. A friend is someone you can do nothing with and enjoy it. However much we guard ourselves against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us. It is not so much the example of others we imitate, as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

Eric Hoffer

Friends, Real, Believe

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Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.

Michael Leunig

War, Heart, People

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By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.

Mark Twain

Law, History, Periods

Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

Plato

Men, Evil, Good Man

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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While it is undeniably true that people love a surprise, it is equally true that they are seldom pleased to suddenly and without warning happen upon a series of prunes in what they took to be a normal loin of pork.

Fran Lebowitz

Food, People, Pork

Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.127, Vintage

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It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.

Erich Fromm

Destiny, Order, Years

Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.40, Lantern Books

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Our top focus - protecting our Nation - must go beyond homeland preparedness; America will only be secure if we deal with threats before they happen, not just after they happen.

Bill Frist

America, Focus, Preparedness

Congressional Record, Volume 150, pt. 13, September 07, 2004.

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I would tell most young people that in life you can go through many difficulties, but if you know what you want to do, if you can focus, and work, then in the end, you will end up doing it. No matter what happens, if you don't give up, you will still succeed.

William Kamkwamba

Giving Up, Don't Give Up, People

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Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.

Thomas Carlyle

Events, Gone, World

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Whatever doesn't really happen is dreamed at night. It happens to one if it doesn't happen to another, tomorrow if not today, or a century hence if not next year.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Night, Years, Next Year

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.167, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

Deep Roy

Inspiration, Being Positive, Good Things

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A seed is really something spiritual as much as it is something material. It contains a life spark that allows the regenerative process to happen. We need seeds because they are the physical manifestation of that concept that we call hope.

Gary Paul Nabhan

Spiritual, Needs, Sparks

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Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.

Timothy Keller

Mean, Might, Reason Why

Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.43, Penguin

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If you can observe your own experience with a minimum of interference, and if you don't try to control what you experience, if you simply allow things to happen and you observe them, then you will be able to discover things about yourself that you did not know before. You can discover little pieces of the inner structures of your mind, the very things that make you who you are.

Ron Kurtz

Mind, Trying, Pieces

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What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.

Fergie

Children, People, Tantrums

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What happens when your dream comes true - when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?

Juliana Hatfield

Dream, Moving, Spotlight

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In this world, where everything happens so fast, it's hard to sit back, take the time and contemplate.

Juliana Hatfield

World, Contemplating, Hard

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I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time.

Juliana Hatfield

Thinking, Have Faith, Happenings

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There is a tendency to see divine intervention in things that happen in the normal course of miracles.

Robert Breault

God, Miracle, Normal

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A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.

Robert Breault

Average, Needs, Half

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A newspaper, as I'm sure you know, is a collection of supposedly true stories written down by writers who either saw them happen or talked to people who did. These writers are called journalists, and like telephone operators, butchers, ballerinas, and people who clean up after horses, journalists can sometimes make mistakes.

Daniel Handler

Horse, Mistake, Media

"The Vile Village". Book by Daniel Handler, 2001.

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Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.

Rajneesh

Flower, Meditation, Branches

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Do you know what happens after you lose the Super Bowl? The world ends. It just stops.

Joe Kapp

World, Super Bowl, Ends

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Get married, in any case. If you happen to get a good mate, you will be happy; if a bad one, you will become philosophical, which is a fine thing in itself.

Socrates

Philosophy, Philosophical, Married

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What I deeply want... is for Rumi to become vitally present for readers, part of what John Keats called our soul-making, that process that is both collective and uniquely individual, that happens outside time and space and inside, that is the ocean we all inhabit and each singular droplet-self.

Coleman Barks

Ocean, Self, Space

Coleman Barks (2010). “The Soul of Rumi: A New Collection of Ecstatic Poems”, p.14, Harper Collins

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