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| We do not attract what we want, But what we are. |
James Allen |
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| Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. |
James Allen |
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| To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment. |
James Allen |
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| Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. |
James Allen |
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| Circumstances do not determine a man, they reveal him. |
James Allen |
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| Good questions outrank easy answers. |
Paul A. Samuelson |
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| I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. |
Douglas Adams |
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| Life is wasted on the living. |
Douglas Adams |
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| He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. |
Douglas Adams |
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| It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear. |
Douglas Adams |
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| It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes. |
Douglas Adams |
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| In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. |
Douglas Adams |
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| Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner. |
Douglas Adams |
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| Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast. |
Douglas Adams |
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| I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. |
Douglas Adams |
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| The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't. |
Douglas Adams |
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| In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. |
Douglas Adams |
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| Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. |
Douglas Adams |
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| The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. |
Douglas Adams |
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| He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. |
Douglas Adams |
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| Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. |
Douglas Adams |
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| The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79. |
Douglas Adams |
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| There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened. |
Douglas Adams |
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| You live and learn. At any rate, you live. |
Douglas Adams |
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| Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. |
Douglas Adams |
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| Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. |
Douglas Adams |
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| Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. |
Douglas Adams |
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| Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space. |
Douglas Adams |
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| A woman's always younger than a man of equal years. |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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| Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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| He said true things, but called them by wrong names. |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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| No man can be called friendless when he has God and the companionship of good books. |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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| Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence. |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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| Whoso loves, believes the impossible. |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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| Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. |
Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
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| It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye. |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth. |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man. |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us. |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| All men have the stars, but they do not mean the same things for different people. For some they are guides, for others, no more than little lights in the sky. But all these are silent. You--you alone have the stars as no one else has them |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind. |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it. |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them. |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| He who would travel happily must travel light. |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| One man may hit the mark, another blunder but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born. |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists. |
Antoine De Saint-Exupery |
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| The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. |
J. Krishnamurti |
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| Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent. |
J. Krishnamurti |
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| It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. |
J. Krishnamurti |
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| You see things as they are and ask, 'Why' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not' |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| England and America are two countries separated by the same language. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| All great truths begin as blasphemies. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| A man never tells you anything until you contradict him. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| Swindon What will history say Burgoyne History, sir, will tell lies as usual. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements, and expect them to fit me. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| There is only one universal passion fear. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about They are more true they are the only things that are true. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| There is no love sincerer than the love of food. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die and do not outlive yourself. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| I'm not a teacher only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead-ahead of myself as well as you. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| You see things and you say, 'Why' But I dream things that never were and I say, Why not |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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| The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation. |
George Bernard Shaw |
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