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Michael Masterson On Anxiety's Self-Consuming Cycle
“Obsessive introspection is a symptom of anxiety. But it is also a cause. Unless resisted, the two can become a self-consuming cycle.” – Michael Masterson.
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Jack London On True Charity And Sacrifice
“A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.” – Jack London
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Thomas Sowell On Academic Ideological Imbalance
“The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many conservatives there are in their sociology department.” – Thomas Sowell
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Franklin D. Roosevelt On Real Estate Investment Safety
“Real estate cannot be lost or stolen, nor can it be carried away. Purchased with common sense, paid for in full, and managed with reasonable care, it is about the safest investment in the world.” – Franklin D…
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Moliere On Responding To Insults With Dignity
“A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.” – Moliere
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Shawn Phillips On The Gym As Spiritual Practice
“From the beginning, what I was connecting with in the gym was a universal energy source. I would just feel it flowing. Even when I was 20 years old, I called the gym my church. When I was there, it wasn’t…
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Boonaa Mohammed On Procrastination And Self-Change
“The cemetery is full of people who thought they could change themselves tomorrow.” – Boonaa Mohammed
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Burt Rutan On Breakthrough Ideas And Productive Nonsense
“Revolutionary ideas come from nonsense. If an idea is truly a breakthrough, then the day before it was discovered, it must have been considered crazy or nonsense or both – otherwise it wouldn’t be a…
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William Shakespeare On The Dangers Of Haste
From Romeo and Juliet: * “[Go] wisely and slow; they stumble who run fast.” (Act 2, Scene 3) * “You can’t lose a game if you don’t play the game.” (Act 1, Scene 4) * “Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”…
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Moliere On The Hidden Cost Of Debt
“Debts are like children – begot with pleasure, but brought forth with pain.” – Moliere
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Michael Masterson On Dreams Versus Wanting Wealth
“Dreaming about being rich is fun. But the only thing you’ll get from it is the enjoyment of the dreaming. Wanting to be rich – that’s another thing entirely. Wanting, without doing, is a waste of time. So, if…
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Mark Twain On Love's Slow Growth Through Marriage
“Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.” – Mark Twain
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Warren Buffett On Investor Temperament Over Intelligence
“The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect.” – Warren Buffett
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George Bernard Shaw On Self-Creation
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
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Michael Masterson On The Power Of Execution
“Ideas in and of themselves have little value. It is their expression that matters – the particular emanation of the idea with its particular shape and size and bells and whistles.” – Michael Masterson
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Vic Johnson On Personal Growth Through Goal Achievement
“Achieving big goals requires you to become a bigger person. You must develop new habits, abilities, skills, and attitudes. You must stretch yourself, and in so doing, you will be forever stretched.” – Vic…
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Mikhail Gorbachev On Why He Started Perestroika
“Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a…
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Ernest Hemingway on Prose Structure
“Prose is architecture, not interior design.” – Ernest Hemingway
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Michael Masterson On Art As Historical Investment
“The wise art investor will think of art as an historical artifact, not as an aesthetic object.” – Michael Masterson
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Japanese Proverb on Action Over Contemplation
“It’s easier to give birth than to think about it.” (Japanese proverb)
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Jimmy Carter On Nuclear Weapons And Cold War Peace
“When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.”…
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James Clear On Starting Without All The Answers
“Many situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking. You don’t need all the answers right now. New paths will reveal themselves if you have the courage to get…
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Charles Darwin On The Value Of Correcting Mistakes
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.” – Charles Darwin
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William O. Douglas On Protecting Free Speech
* “Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” – William O. Douglas * “We love in another’s soul…
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Barbara Kingsolver On Depression And Sadness
“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, ‘There now, hang on, you’ll get over it.’ Sadness is more or less like a head cold – with patience, it passes…
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On Achievement
* On Achievement: “Enterprise and hard work will almost always win, even under communism or African dictatorships.” – Taki * On Forgiveness: “I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope someday to meet…
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On Business Knowledge
“There are two kinds of industry know-how: specific knowledge and wisdom. Specific knowledge changes every six months. Wisdom lasts forever. The beginning entrepreneur, if he is lucky, can make do with…
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Thomas Edison On Discontent And Progress
“Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.” – Thomas Edison
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George Orwell On Political Language And Deception
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” – George Orwell
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Bernard Malamud On Heroes And Human Potential
“Without heroes, we’re all plain people and don’t know how far we can go.” – Bernard Malamud
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From Hesiod
“If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.” “It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.” “Work is no…
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Michael Masterson On Money And True Fulfillment
“Wealth is an advantage in almost every endeavor except the search for three things: honor, dignity, and personal satisfaction.” – Michael Masterson
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Jessica Wildfire On The Cost Of Pretending Happiness
“Pretending to be happy is easier than actually being happy. Pretending is more profitable, but also more expensive.” – Jessica Wildfire
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Robert Frost On Poetry's Perfect Convergence
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” – Robert Frost
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Edgar Allan Poe On Cause And Effect
“I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.” – Edgar Allan Poe
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Edmund Hillary On Conquering Ourselves
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary
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Paul Tillich On Risk And Personal Failure
“He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.” – Paul Tillich
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Melania Trump On Teaching Children Generosity
“My husband and I are big givers to charity, and we are teaching our son Barron all about giving his old toys away to children who might not have any.” – Melania Trump
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Ron Yudd On The Mentor's True Role
“Mentors hold the flashlight so others can see the path.” – Ron Yudd
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Adrienne Rich on Deception Through Silence
“Lying is done with words, and also with silence.” – Adrienne Rich
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Charles M. Schulz On Love And Chocolate
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz
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By Dr. Martin Luther King
* We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. (Western Michigan University, December 1963) * Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community…
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Joan Baez On Living With Purpose And Intention
“You don’t get to choose how you’re going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live. Now.” – Joan Baez
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Rainer Maria Rilke On Beginning The New Year
“And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
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The Bible on Welcoming Strangers
“Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” – The Bible (Hebrews 13.2)
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Albert Einstein On Judging Others Unfairly
“If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, you will think it’s stupid.” – Albert Einstein
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Simone Weil On The Power Of Imagination
“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” – Simone Weil
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Michael Masterson On True Character And Adversity
“A person’s character is not determined by how far he moves when the wind is at his back but by how far he leans forward when it is against him.” – Michael Masterson
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Michael Masterson On Choosing Your Own Purpose
“A sense of purpose is a great blessing – one of the few that can be freely chosen by anyone at any time.” – Michael Masterson
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C.S. Spurgeon On Welcoming Good Thoughts
“Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after.” – C.S. Spurgeon
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