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#1

“No one ever drowned in sweat.”
― USMC

tags: effort, hard-work

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#2

“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
― Jim Rohn

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#3

“Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.”
― Jim Rohn

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#4

“If you don't like how things are, change it. You are not a tree.
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― Jim Rohn

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#5

“motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.”
― Jim Rohn

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#6

“The book you don't read can't help.”
― Jim Rohn

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#7

“We're better off for all that we let in.”
― Indigo Girls

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#8

“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
― Christopher Morley, Pipefuls

tags: bibliophilia, books

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#9

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”
― Christopher Morley

tags: do, morley, read, think

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#10

“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.”
― Christopher Morley, Parnassus on Wheels

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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#11

“The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.”
― Christopher Morley

tags: poetry

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#12

“That's what this country needs -- more books!”
― Christopher Morley

tags: book, books, reading

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#13

“The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.”
― Christopher Morley

tags: books

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#14

“The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.”
― Alex Grey

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#15

“Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea
hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.”
― Rex Harrison

tags: humor, inspirational

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#16

“At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.”
― Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

tags: katniss-everdeen, suzanne-collins, thoughtful

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#17

“In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all, be a sheep.”
― Albert Einstein

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#18

“It's right to learn, even from the enemy.”
― Ovid

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#19

“Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . .”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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#20

“At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done.
We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: activism, service

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#21

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: liberty, political-philosophy, politics

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#22

“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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#23

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, lifelong-learning

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#24

“Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: misattributed-to-mother-teresa

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#25

“Indeed, one concern would be that the initial neoconservative response to a zombie outbreak would be to invade Iraq again out of force of habit.”
― Daniel W. Drezner, Theories of International Politics and Zombies

tags: humor, politics, zombies

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#26

“Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

tags: opportunity, people, predictability, surprise

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#27

“Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.”
― Mark Twain

tags: on-writing, writing-advice

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#28

“There are two kinds of leaders, cowboys and Shepherds. Cowboys drive and Shepherds lead.”
― John Paul Warren

tags: christian, john-paul, john-paul-warren, leadership, motivational, pastor-john-paul-warren, sozo, the-refuge-austin, voice-of-the-nations

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#29

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
― Joseph Brodsky

tags: books, censorship, illiteracy, reading

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#30

“I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
Death thought about it.
CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
― Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

tags: cats, death, life

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