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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.: Rabbi Abraham Heschel
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Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.: Francis Marion (1732 - 1795)
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I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.: Robert Bakker, paleontologist
Eat before shopping. If you go to the store hungry, you are likely to make unnecessary purchases.: American Heart Association Cookbook
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.: Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778), The Social Contract, 1762
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If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.: J. Paul Getty (1892 - 1976)
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A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.: Denise Mina, Hellblazer: Empathy is the Enemy, 2006
Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.: John Kord Lagemann
If you believe everything you read, better not read.: Japanese Proverb
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Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.: Marva Collins
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.: Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.: Rita Mae Brown, Venus Envy
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.: Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism"
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Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.: Simone Weil (1909 - 1943), Gravity and Grace, 1947
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When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in the worlds of time.: The Work of the Chariot
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The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.: Robert Graves (1895 - 1985)
A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.: Unknown
The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.: Jennifer Hudson, I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, 2012
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Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
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Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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