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• There seems to be an unwritten rule on Wall Street: If you don't understand it, then put your life savings into it. Shun the enterprise around the corner, which can at least be observed, and seek out the one that manufactures an incomprehensible product.

  Peter Lynch

  Wall, Saving, Investing

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• I had so many outs in my career. I could have said, I don’t need this. I have money; I have fame; I have victories; I have Grand Slams. But when your love for something is bigger than all those things, you continue to keep getting up in the morning when it’s freezing outside, when you know that it can be the most difficult day, when nothing is working, when you feel like the belief sometimes isn’t there from the outside world, and you seem so small. But you can achieve great things when you don’t listen to all those things.

  Maria Sharapova

  Sports, Morning, Careers

  "Maria Sharapova Presser: Winning The French, It’s The Most Unique Moment I’ve Experienced In My Career" by Tom Gainey, www.tennis-x.com. June 9, 2012.

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• Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery.

  C. S. Lewis

  Deception, Nursery, Virtuous

  C. S. Lewis (1990). “Poetry and prose in the sixteenth century”, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand

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• February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.

  Anna Quindlen

  Dirty, Winter, Two

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• It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Our Generation, Air, Tasks

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• It seems that most people need to experience a great deal of suffering before they will relinquish resistance and accept - before they will forgive.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Forgiveness, People, Suffering

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.179, New World Library

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• Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls.

  Jim Harrison

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Jim Harrison (2016). “Just Before Dark”, p.35, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Individual

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• Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.

  William Shakespeare

  Passion, Eye, Blood

  William Shakespeare (1838). “Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of Each Play, and a Memoir of the Author by William Harness”, p.431

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• I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Selfish, Thinking, Evil

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis, Volume 3: Narnia, Cambridge, and Joy, 1950 - 1963”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• I do find myself surprised by the comedy shows that seem to have the same joke week in week out.

  Clive Anderson

  Comedy, Week, Shows

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• Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?

  Paul Lockhart

  Children, Math, Thinking

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• Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to live a new life there; its painstaking devotion to what without it might go unnoticed and unseen; its respect for contingency, and the unlikely and odd; its willingness to expose itself to moments of low, almost animal being and make them nobly illuminating, can deliver truths we might not otherwise stumble on.

  David Malouf

  Animal, Skins, Unseen

  David Malouf (2011). “The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World”, p.87, Black Inc.

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• It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself.

  Cathy Lee Crosby

  Lying, Learning, Needs

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• You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

  Amy Grant

  Ideas, People, Might

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• Things aren't always what they seem
  You're only seeing part of me
  There's more than you could ever know
  Behind the scenes.

  Francesca Battistelli

  Behind The Scenes, Behinds, Knows

  Song: Behind The Scenes, Album: My Paper Heart, 2008

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• Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked.

  Cory Booker

  Love, Inspirational, Wise

  FaceBook post by Cory Booker from Nov 14, 2013

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• Here is one optimists reason for believing unity will prevail ... within the next hundred years ... nationhood as we know it will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single, global authority. A phrase briefly fashionable in the mid-20th century -- citizen of the world -- will have assumed real meaning by the end of the 21st. All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

  Strobe Talbott

  Country, Real, Believe

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• When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high.

  Hideki Tojo

  Blessing, Should Have, Reflecting Upon

  "Hideki Tojo's Prison Diary". "The Journal of Historical Review", Vol. 12, No. 1, (pp. 31-85), www.ihr.org. 1992.

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• The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me.

  C. K. Williams

  Writing, Silence, Eating

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• I consider that a most ignoble endeavor. The only way I would like to 'help' the great majority of people is the same way Carl Panzram 'reformed' people who tried to reform him. It would be most merciful to help them by relieving them of the life they seem to hate so much. People should be happy I'm not a humanitarian-or I'd probably be the most diabolical mass murderer the world has ever known.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Hate, People, Majority

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• Although I am even now still a layman in the area of mathematics, and although I lack theoretical knowledge, the mathematicians, and in particular the crystallographers, have had considerable influence on my work of the last twenty years. The laws of the phenomena around us--order, regularity, cyclical repetition, and renewals--have assumed greater and greater importance for me. The awareness of their presence gives me peace and provides me with support. I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.

  M. C. Escher

  Beautiful, Years, Law

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• It seems to me that the least deserving recipients of wealth are inheritors. Further, there are many indications that inheritors often have trouble adjusting to their unearned inheritance. An inheritance tax would de facto help remedy this.

  Julian Robertson

  Inheritance, Adjusting, Helping

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• The United States military is now evolving geometrically as it gains experience from near-constant fighting and grafts new technology daily. Indeed, it seems to be doubling, tripling, and even quadrupling its lethality every few years. And the result is that we are outdistancing not merely the capabilities of our enemies but our allies as well - many of whom who have not fought in decades - at such a dizzying pace that our sheer destructive power makes it hard to work with others in joint operations.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Military, Fighting, Technology

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• Praise, help, or even a look, may be enough to interrupt him, or destroy the activity. It seems a strange thing to say, but this can happen even if the child merely becomes aware of being watched. After all, we too sometimes feel unable to go on working if someone comes to see what we are doing. The great principle which brings success to the teacher is this: as soon as concentration has begun, act as if the child does not exist. Naturally, one can see what he is doing with a quick glance, but without his being aware of it.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Principles

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