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    David Dennington
    “There are tons of gals out there looking for someone to promote 'the cause'. I have one such gal in mind. She's loaded.”
    ― David Dennington, The Ghost of Captain Hinchliffe, The Ghost of Captain Hinchliffe
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    Michael Gellert
    “the courage to risk the changes demanded by psychotherapy raises issues which strike at the heart of our conception of life and the universe.”
    ― Michael Gellert, Modern Mysticism: Jung, Zen and the Still Good Hand of God
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    Nora Ephron
    “Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real.”
    ― Nora Ephron
    tags: reading
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    Martin Cruz Smith
    “The great thing about being a writer is that you are always re-creating yourself.”
    ― Martin Cruz Smith
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    Barry Finlay
    “Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.”
    ― Barry Finlay, Kilimanjaro and Beyond
    tags: adventure, africa, clean-water, climbing, education, inspirational, kilimanjaro, mountains
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    Karl Wiggins
    “You see what your mother-in-law hasn’t yet realised is that she’s the one who needs to hold out the olive branch, not you, because she’s the one who’s going to want to come around more and more in the future to see her grand-kids. SHE needs to make friends with YOU, not the other way around.”
    ― Karl Wiggins, You Really Are Full of Shit, Aren't You?
    tags: mother-in-law, mother-in-law-quotes, mother-in-laws
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    Karl Wiggins
    “To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread." Charles Caleb Colton 1825.”
    ― Karl Wiggins, Shit my History Teacher DID NOT tell me!
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    Glen Robinson
    “Barefoot, exhausted and bloody, Harris Borden turned and left the underground prison that had been his home for the past twelve years and walked out into the Nevada desert.”
    ― Glen Robinson, Elijah
    tags: christian, inspirational, suspense
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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “I am part of everything that I have read.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: listening
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: choices, misattributed-eleanor-roosevelt
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: encouragement, expectations, proactivity, self-development
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey
    tags: priorities
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Start with the end in mind. ”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
    tags: management
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: change, perception
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities”
    ― Stephen R. Covey
    tags: community, diversity
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Habit 1: Be Proactive
    Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
    Habit 3: Put First Things First
    Habit 4: Think Win/Win
    Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood
    Habit 6: Synergize
    Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw”
    ― Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: perceptions
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “We see the world, not as it is, but as we are──or, as we are conditioned to see it.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: lens, perceptions
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.”
    ― Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
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    Stephen R. Covey
    “It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: human-behavior
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    Frank Herbert
    “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: bene-gesserit, fear, litany-against-fear, motivational, scifi
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    Simon Sinek
    “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
    ― Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don't
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    Bernard M. Baruch
    “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
    ― Bernard M. Baruch
    tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter
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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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  • #29
    Robert Frost
    “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: life
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    Elbert Hubbard
    “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
    ― Elbert Hubbard
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