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| There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. |
William James |
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| The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind. |
William James |
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| The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. |
William James |
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| The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. |
William James |
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| Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture. |
William James |
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| Only necessity understood, and bondage to the highest is identical with true freedom. |
William James |
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| A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices. |
William James |
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| Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life. |
William James |
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| If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. Try the 'as if' technique. |
William James |
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| Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. |
William James |
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| There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. |
William James |
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| The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. |
William James |
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| Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. |
William James |
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| Genius means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. |
William James |
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| How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure. |
William James |
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| Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. |
William James |
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| The stream of thought flows on but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures. |
William James |
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| Justice is incidental to law and order. |
J. Edgar Hoover |
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| Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common Every single one was a liar. |
J. Edgar Hoover |
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| They're only truly great who are truly good. |
George Chapman |
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| Young men think old men are fools but old men know young men are fools. |
George Chapman |
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| The young always have the same problem- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. |
George Chapman |
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| The right of bearing arms for a lawful purpose is not a right granted by the Constitution neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. |
U.S. vs Cruikshan |
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| No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| You must do the things you think you cannot do. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes...and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being -- we can do it. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| To handle yourself, use your head To handle others, use your heart. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| Anger is only one letter short of danger. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| You always admire what you really don't understand. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| One thing life has taught me if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| The giving of love is an education in itself. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| A woman is like a tea bag- you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. |
Roosevelt, Eleanor |
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| Friends are treasures. |
Horace Bruns |
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| The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. |
Alan Saporta |
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| Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant. |
J. Petit-Senn |
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| The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own. |
J. Petit-Senn |
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| That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. |
Neil Armstrong |
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| It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. |
Neil Armstrong |
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| I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. |
Neil Armstrong |
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| You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. |
Beverly Sills |
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| I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up. |
Beverly Sills |
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| I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not--more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around living becomes the act of giving. |
Beverly Sills |
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| I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter. |
Beverly Sills |
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| It is not enough to show people how to live better there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better. |
Marya Mannes |
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| The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit. |
Marya Mannes |
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| If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring. |
Marya Mannes |
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| Generosity with strings is not generosity It is a deal. |
Marya Mannes |
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| The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. |
Marya Mannes |
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| Peter Good luck with your layoffs, alright, I hope your firings go really, really well. |
Office Space |
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| Peter When I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired. |
Office Space |
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| Milton And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire. |
Office Space |
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| Michael Bolton Yeah, well at least your name isn't Michael Bolton. Samir You know there's nothing wrong with that name. Michael Bolton There was nothing wrong with it... until I was about 12 years old and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys. |
Office Space |
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| Peter So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life. |
Office Space |
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| Peter Well, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side door--that way Lumbergh can't see me, heh--after that I sorta space out for an hour. I just stare at my desk, but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch too, I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. |
Office Space |
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| Samir No, not again. I... why does it say paper jam when there is no paper jam I swear to God, one of these days, I just kick this piece of shit out the window. |
Office Space |
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| Bob We find it's always better to fire people on a Friday. Studies have statistically shown that there's less chance of an incident if you do it at the end of the week. |
Office Space |
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| Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky -- or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| Nothing happens unless first a dream. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| In reply to the question, What was it the last man on earth said Where is everybody |
Carl Sandburg |
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| Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of al evil, the sum of all blessings. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| Our lives are like a candle in the wind. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. |
Carl Sandburg |
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| When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy, one doubts nothing. |
Joseph Roux |
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| Solitude vivifies isolation kills. |
Joseph Roux |
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| We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. |
Joseph Roux |
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