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The best way to try to motivate somebody is by being direct with them. To be honest with them. Lies are never the right way to get your message across.: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.: Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.: Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
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There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.: Emile Chartier
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Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.: A. Bartlett Giamatti (1938 - 1989), President of Yale University
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Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.: Scott Westerfeld, Extras, 2007
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Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.: Krishnamurti
If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.: Ausonius
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.: Leigh Hunt (1784 - 1859)
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I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.: John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012
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We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.: Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
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Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.: Arab Proverb
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Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself!: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
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He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.: Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 - 1816)
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.: James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
The noun of self becomes a verb. This flashpoint of creation in the present moment is where work and play merge.: Stephen Nachmanovitch
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All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.: John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)