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• Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule

  Napoleon Hill

  Humorous, Positive Thinking, Men

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• I believe that if you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you will hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience. This is the sure way to win victories over inner defeat. It is the way a humble person meets life or death.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Believe, Humble, Positive Thinking

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• To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his behavior to a supposed inner trait. But whether or not a person engages in the kind of behavior called sinful depends upon circumstances which are not mentioned in either question. The sin assigned as an inner possession (the sin a person "knows") is to be found in a history of reinforcement.

  B. F. Skinner

  Men, Giving, Definitions

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• The morning stars sang together. And a person of delicate ear and nice judgment discussed the singing at length, and showed how and wherein one star differed from another, and which was great and which was not. And still the morning stars sang together.

  Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

  Morning, Stars, Nice

  Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (1907). “Little Stories”

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• My mother always told me that no matter how much you dislike a person, when you meet them face to face you will find characteristics about them that you like. Jerry Falwell was a perfect example of that. I hated everything he stood for, but after meeting him in person, years after the trial, Jerry Falwell and I became good friends.

  Larry Flynt

  Friendship, Mother, Hate

  "Larry Flynt's Official Response to Jerry Falwell's Death". Pine Magazine, May 16, 2007.

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• There was a Young Person in pink, Who called out for something to drink; But they said, 'O my daughter, there's nothing but water!' Which vexed that Young Person in pink.

  Edward Lear

  Daughter, Water, Drink

  Edward Lear (1994). “Complete Nonsense”, p.98, Wordsworth Editions

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• Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking "Is what I do worth while?" and "Am I the right person to do it?" will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others. He must shut his eyes a little and think a little more of his subject and himself than they deserve. This is not too difficult: it is harder not to make his subject and himself ridiculous by shutting his eyes too tightly.

  G. H. Hardy

  Eye, Hard Work, Humble

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• The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has far-reaching effects in every aspect of a person's life. It ultimately makes people protective of the environment in a very committed way. It is my opinion that the study of natural history should be the primary avenue for creating environmentalists.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Philosophy, Hard Work, Science

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• It is your ability as a creative person to envision positive change that will make a difference.

  Patricia Johanson

  Healing, Differences, Creative

  Caffyn Kelley, Patricia Johanson (2006). “Art and Survival: Patricia Johanson's Environmental Projects”, Salt Spring Island, B.C. : Islands Institute

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• Sometimes you have to erase the messages, delete the numbers, and move on. You don't have to forget who that person was to you, but you do have to accept that they aren't that person anymore.

  Drake

  Breakup, Moving, Numbers

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• Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.

  Tertullian

  Beauty, Eye, Carpe Diem

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• During the day extend that attitude to everyone you meet. Practice cherishing the "simplest" person (clerks, attendants, etc) or people you dislike.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Attitude, Practice

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• Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

  Ugo Betti

  Carpe Diem, Giving, Want

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

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• If someone offends you, don't tell anyone about it except your elder, and you will be peaceful. Bow to everyone, paying no attention whether they respond to your bow or not. You must humble yourself before everyone and consider yourself the worst of all. If we have not committed the sins that others have, perhaps this is because we did not have the opportunity - the situation and circumstances were different. In each person there is something good and something bad; we usually see only the vices in people and we see nothing that is good.

  Ambrose

  Humble, Humility, Opportunity

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• A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Humility, Puff, Use

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• It is better to have but little knowledge with humility and understanding, than great learning which might make you proud. For a person's merits are not to be estimated by having many visions, or by knowledge of the bible, or by being placed in a higher position; but by being grounded in true humility, and by seeking always, purely, and entirely, the honor of God.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Humility, Understanding, Honor

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• Professions of humility are the very cream, the very essence of pride; the really humble person wishes to be, and not to appear so. Humility is timorous, and starts at her shadow; and so delicate that if she hears her name pronounced it endangers her existence.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humble, Humility, Pride

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• Through your love for each other, through learning the art of making one person happy, you learn to express your love for the whole of humanity and all beings. Please help us develop the curriculum for the Institute for the Happiness of One Person. Don't wait until we open the school. You can begin practicing right away.

  Nhat Hanh

  Art, Buddhist, School

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living”, p.58, Parallax Press

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• It is great that even before we become enlightened or generate any lam-rim realizations we are able to offer incredible benefit to others. The person who does this is a very fortunate person and should rejoice very often.

  Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

  Buddhist, Doe, Realization

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• I don't trust a man who uses the word evil eighteen times in ten minutes. If you're half evil, nothing soothes you more than to think the person you are opposed to is totally evil.

  Norman Mailer

  Humility, Men, Thinking

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• Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against gravity, so the grace of God is the only force in the spiritual universe that causes a person to grow against the gravity of their own ego.

  Simone Weil

  Spiritual, Humility, Acceptance

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• I was raised in this society so you can't expect me to be a perferct person cause Ima do what Ima do.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Causes, This Society

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• The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty.

  Stephen Hawking

  Atheist, Intelligent, Religion

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.105, Random House

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• The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade other people how good they are.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Suicidal, People, Effort

  The Defendant introduction (1901)

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• From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not to mention criminal lunacy.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Law, Criminals, Problem

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