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• I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.

  Kenneth Koch

  New York, Smart, Writing

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• I don't give a crap if you're a Tangent or a really smart llama. You're my friend and that's all that matters

  James Dashner

  Smart, Llamas, Giving

  James Dashner (2014). “The Rule of Thoughts (The Mortality Doctrine, Book Two)”, p.76, Delacorte Press

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• I know that each of us has much to do. Sometimes we feel overwhelmed by the tasks we face. But if we keep our priorities in order, we can accomplish all that we should. We can endure to the end regardless of temptations, problems, and challenges.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Order, Priorities, Temptation

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• Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.

  James E. Faust

  Opportunity, Important Choices, Decision

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• If you don't raise the bar, how will you ever know your potential?

  L. Tom Perry

  Bars, Raises, Raising The Bar

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• The internet has done nothing but good for comedy all around. Comedians no longer have to rely on TV execs and club owners deciding if they are funny or not.

  Doug Stanhope

  Comedian, Done, Clubs

  "Doug Stanhope on Alcohol, Politics and Killing Comedy Bootleggers’ Families". Interview with Joel Warner, Peter McGraw, www.wired.com. November 6, 2012.

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• The spiritual quest is not some added benefit to our life, something you embark on if you have the time and inclination. We are spiritual beings on an earthly journey. Our spirituality makes up our beingness.

  John Bradshaw

  Spiritual, Journey, Benefits

  John Bradshaw (2010). “Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem”, p.247, Health Communications, Inc.

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• And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Experts, Way, Motto

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1000, Simon and Schuster

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• We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

  Brené Brown

  Ideas, People, Culture

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.116, Penguin

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• If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.

  David Foster Wallace

  Worship, Weak, Feels

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• The 8 key words that will move practically anyone to your side of the issue: 'If you can't do it, I'll definitely understand.'

  Bob Burg

  Moving, Keys, Your Side

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• There's no such thing as failure if you just try.

  Kendall Schmidt

  Trying

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• If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.

  Brian Tracy

  Self Esteem, Emotional, Rejection

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• In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

  Frank Herbert

  Self, Law, Names

  "God Emperor of Dune" by Frank Herbert, "The Stolen Journals", 1981.

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• The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.

  Lynda Barry

  Real, Knowing, Joy

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• If you watch Rafael Nadal play tennis, you can only respond with amazement and great admiration. He is an incredible athlete with so much discipline, so much concentration and someone who likes to put a lot of passion into every point. Words fail to come out of me to describe his game appropriately. I've rarely seen anyone who approaches a ball with so much attention. With such passion and joy that it makes great fun to watch him. With him, you can associate everything that makes tennis so beautiful.

  Steffi Graf

  Beautiful, Fun, Passion

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• In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.

  Robert Fogel

  Retirement, Jobs, Average

  "So Big and Healthy Grandpa Wouldn’t Even Know You" by Gina Kolata, www.nytimes.com. July 30, 2006.

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• In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.

  Robert Fogel

  Past, Three, World

  "The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700". Book by Roderick Floud,‎ Robert W. Fogel,‎ Bernard Harris,‎ Sok Chul Hong, 2011.

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• The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank.

  Robert Fogel

  President, Credit, Want

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. September 2004.

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• Every footballer wants to play forever. And if you are going to keep on playing - to enjoy it to the full - you want to win games, and as a result, trophies.

  Ryan Giggs

  Winning, Games, Play

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• My right wrist is connected to the left foot. You know, if the left foot doesn't work, the right wrist doesn't work, and that's really the truth.

  Richie Havens

  Feet, Wrists, Connected

  "'Talk Of The Nation' Remembers Folk Singer Richie Havens". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. April 23, 2013.

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• I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.

  Richie Havens

  Sleep, Trying, Remember

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• The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately planted enormous quantities of evidence to make it look as if evolution had happened.

  Richard Dawkins

  Enormous Quantities, Looks, Way

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• We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually its a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.

  Judith Butler

  Reality, Men, Facts

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• If you can do more, you should.

  Robert Redford

  Should, Can Do

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