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There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowl...

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We learn from failure, not from success!

The Shaod, it was called. The Transformation... When it came, the fortuante person's life ended and ...

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Never go on a date unarmed.” Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orphan...

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I trust you with their lives,' Prof said, still writing, 'and them with yours. Don't betray that tru...

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Those dear to me took fright for my safety and, perhaps, my sanity. Kings, they explained, do not wa...

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Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is th...

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Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired...

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what's right? If you want something, you have the right to take it. If you want to do something, you...

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Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be success...

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Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highro...

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It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out ...

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Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active,...

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The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.

Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.

If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ...

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The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more th...

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Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are alway...

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Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Every minute you spend in planning saves 10 minutes in execution; this gives you a 1,000 percent Ret...

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The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greate...

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Never say anything about yourself you don't want to come true

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing...

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The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough...

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Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education...

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You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you...

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If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwh...

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The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more lik...

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Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that e...

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Always choose the future over the past. What do we do now?

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Brian TracyCreate Your Own Future: How to Master the 12 Critical Factors of Unlimited Success

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheel...

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Brian TracyFocal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

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Brian TracyMaximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills that Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal...

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A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal ...

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Brian TracyThe Gift of Self-Confidence

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received...

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I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you ...

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I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to min...

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It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get a...

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The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressi...

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If there is a wasp in the room, I’d like to be able to see it.

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary d...

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The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can p...

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For my own part, I tend to find the doctrinal books often more helpful in devotion than the devotion...

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C. S. LewisGod in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey ...

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C. S. LewisOut of the Silent Planet

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own ...

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We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His b...

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And certainly both Horses were doing, if not all they could, all they thought they could; which is n...

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I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

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C. S. LewisThe Screwtape Letters

Only the learned read old books, and... now... they are of all men the least likely to acquire wisdo...

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity...

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It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity...

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For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the univer...

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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us ...

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Tell no man anything, for no man listensYet hold thy lips ready to speak.

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today.Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction.See whether wi...

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Carl SandburgHoney and Salt

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that f...

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Carlos CastanedaThe Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing...

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Never trust anyone Daniel, especially the people you admire

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough

Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone ...

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1My father says a hunch is your brain’s way of taking a short cut to the truth,’ replied Max.‘He’s a...

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The only way you would have failed," she said, "is if you had.

I cannot explain love. I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was ...

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Sometimes he wondered if he did these things just to test himself. To see if the feelings had gone. ...

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...a blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something.

He looked down at the books. There was a long silence. Then he raised his eyes and directed his gaze...

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Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love wha...

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we are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecuewe are unwanted and burni...

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt...

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Charles DickensNicholas Nickleby

Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an ...

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The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one...

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I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!...

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Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...

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After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so w...

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I do know that the gardens of the first lands are still lying there, right under the skin of the wor...

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I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be ha...

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Take a simple idea and take it seriously.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come ou...

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Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are aliv...

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Take the matter as you find it ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You...

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I will bestir myself,' was her resolution, 'and try to be wise if I cannot be good.

I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.