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• Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one, too, just in case.

  John Gierach

  Rights, People, Weapons

  John Gierach (1990). “Sex, death, and fly-fishing”, Fireside

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• You can eat beef on a weekly basis and become a genius intuitive if your energy is in present time.You can consume only organic food while running thirty-five miles a day and "om-ing" until dawn, but if your spirit is raging about your history and is saturated in regrets and unfinished business, you won't be able to intuit your left hand from your right.

  Caroline Myss

  Running, Regret, Hands

  "Distractions, Distractions: 5 rules for staying in the present moment". www.healyourlife.com. August 19, 2010.

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• Without conviction that you can make change happen, you will not act, even if you see the vision. Your feelings will hold you back.

  John P. Kotter

  Feelings, Vision, Conviction

  John P. Kotter, Dan Cohen (2015). “Successful Organizational Change: The Kotter-Cohen Collection (2 Books)”, p.114, Harvard Business Review Press

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• These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.

  Bill McKibben

  Fighting, Technology, Being Free

  "Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age". Book by Bill McKibben, April 2, 2003.

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• If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

  Charles Stross

  Memories, Liberty, Might

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.174, Penguin

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• What are we going to say if tomorrow it occurs to some African state to send its agents into Mississippi and to kidnap one of the leaders of the segregationist movement there? And what are we going to reply if a court in Ghana or the Congo quotes the Eichmann case as precedent?

  Hannah

  Ghana, Leader, Movement

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• A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.

  Colleen Houck

  Wise, Pain, Men

  Colleen Houck (2011). “Tiger's Voyage: Tiger's Curse: Book Three”, p.477, Hachette UK

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• There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.

  Jenny Han

  Taken, Thinking, Giving

  Jenny Han (2014). “To All the Boys I've Loved Before”, p.18, Scholastic UK

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• You cannot reach a correct conclusion if you begin with an incorrect assumption

  Herbert W. Armstrong

  Assumption, Conclusion, Incorrect Assumptions

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• If you refuse where you have always granted you invite to theft.

  Publilius Syrus

  Granted, Theft, Refuse

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• If you want to be happy, then it is within your grasp. The book you are holding can have a profound impact on your thinking and your attitude and can help you to do more, be more, and achieve more!

  Willie Jolley

  Attitude, Book, Thinking

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• If you're like most people, you've always wanted something better for your life - it's really how we are designed - we're supposed to want improvement, and we're designed to climb upward. But most people stop at that - the WANT. They rarely take any action that actually begins moving their dreams into true reality!

  Bob Proctor

  Dream, Moving, Reality

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 15, 2011

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• The second step to achieving your goals in the New Year involves action and this is where many people run off track. The life we are living and have known to this point is comfortable and easy. Therefore we find it hard to establish new habits and routines even if we know they will bring us a better life. Our old belief system drags us back into the familiar. It is hard to overcome and we often experience small setbacks. This is the time to go back and look at your goals. Read your goal statement repeatedly and remind yourself of what you want and why.

  Bob Proctor

  Running, New Year, Years

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 31, 2011

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• If you see yourself in a favorable light, if your image of yourself is pleasant, if this visual concept of yourself cannot be shaken by temporary defeats, then you have reached the goal achieved by the most fortunate. Not everyone reaches this mental state; in fact, many people do not even believe it is possible. Happiness and peace of mind are a matter of consciousness. We must create the inner-harmony we desire. This type of awareness is not an accident, it comes from study and an understanding that we are truly creative.

  Bob Proctor

  Believe, Light, Temporary Defeat

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 07, 2012

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• The opposite of Taking A Risk is of course Playing It Safe The latter would probably be a reasonable way of life for seventy or eighty years if you had a contract to live for a thousand years. However, since you know that is out of the question, you must admit, Playing It Safe is a pretty dull way to live. Those who play it safe are generally not too exciting, in fact they would probably border on being very boring personalities. On a score of one to ten as a Risk Taker where do you stand? Add a little spice to your life today and take a risk.

  Bob Proctor

  Years, Opposites, Play

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jul 06, 2012

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• Don't let your present problems defeat you. The Chinese have a saying that if you live with a disaster for three years it will turn into a blessing. Look back in your own life at what appeared to be a devastating situation five or ten years ago. Many of those situations were the turning point that caused a number of great things to happen in your future. Regardless of what happens today, realize it is the beginning of something good.

  Bob Proctor

  Blessing, Years, Numbers

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Aug 19, 2015

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• All of the great leaders down through history have told us we become what we think about. In fact, they have been in complete and unanimous agreement on this point while they disagree on almost every other point. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people rarely think, they simply accept what they see or hear. The next time someone gives you a suggestion, rather than simply accepting and acting on the suggestion - THINK - exercise your reasoning factor. Ask yourself if the suggestion will improve the quality of your life.

  Bob Proctor

  Exercise, Thinking, Agreement

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 17, 2012

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• And.. are you willing to go all the way? To understand that food is only a stand-in for love and possibility and spirit? Because if you aren't, you will get caught up in gaining and losing weight for the rest of your life. But if you are willing, then the portal to what you say you want is truly on your plate.

  Geneen Roth

  Weight, Want, Way

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Oct 10, 2012

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• People will only follow you if they see you're ahead, are convinced you know the route, trust you, and want to get there too.

  Patrick Dixon

  People, Want, Routes

  Patrick Dixon (2005). “Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation”, p.43, Profile Books

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• But to demand that a work be “relatable” expresses a different expectation: that the work itself be somehow accommodating to, or reflective of, the experience of the reader or viewer. The reader or viewer remains passive in the face of the book or movie or play: she expects the work to be done for her. If the concept of identification suggested that an individual experiences a work as a mirror in which he might recognize himself, the notion of relatability implies that the work in question serves like a selfie: a flattering confirmation of an individual's solipsism.

  Rebecca Mead

  Book, Play, Mirrors

  "The Scourge of 'Relatability'". www.newyorker.com. August 1, 2014.

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• Yes here I am doing what I do best; and that's taking a selfie. People make fun of me but the reality is if I didn't take them you would never see me as I want to be seen. I'm a difficult subject and my greatest fear is dying and someone finding my phone and the hundreds upon hundreds of selfies.

  Sara Quin

  Fun, Reality, Phones

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• For a woman ... to explore and express the fullness of her sexuality, her ambitions, her emotional and intellectual capacities, her social duties, her tender virtues, would entail who knows what risks and who knows what truly revolutionary alteration to the social conditions that demean and constrain her. Or she may go on trying to fit herself into the order of the world and thereby consign herself forever to the bondage of some stereotype of normal femininity - a perversion, if you will.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Ambition, Emotional, Order

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• You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

  Charles Stross

  Mind, Needed, Knows

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.197, Penguin

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• If it doesn't happen, the continuing oppression will be met by more resistance from a less tolerant populace which wants a democratic restoration. And that resistance will only invite further oppression.

  Florencio Abad

  Want, Resistance, Restoration

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• If there's no unity in your work, then you've deliberately made yourself into that kind of person. You don't want that unity in your work. You've made some kind of satisfactory arrangement with your culture.

  Milton Resnick

  Unity, Culture, Want

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