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Allan Lawrence: Confidence
“Even if you don’t feel confident, fake it. Time after time, I have seen a marginal runner act the role of confident competitor, and eventually become one.” —Allan Lawrence, The Self-Coached Runner.
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Mike Ditka: Eating healthy
“So, when it comes to eating healthy, it’s just doing the right thing. And it’s not something you have to do 365 days a year, but I think it’s something you have to do 25 days a month. Let’s put it that way. ” Mike Ditka
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Calvin Coolidge: Spirit of Christmas
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. Calvin Coolidge
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Benjamin Disraeli: Change
“Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.” —Benjamin Disraeli.
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Benjamin Franklin: Continual Christmas
“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” —Benjamin Franklin.
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Claudius: Know what you say
Say not always what you know, but always know what you say. ” Claudius
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Konrad Adenau: Conciliating tigers
“An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. ” Konrad Adenau
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Emily Dickinson: Anger
“Anger as soon as fed is dead- / ‘Tis starving makes it fat.” —Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886).
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Confucius: Teaching others…
“It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family.” Confucius
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Amy Lowell: Youth and maturity
“Youth condemns; maturity condones. ” Amy Lowell
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Unknown: Brains and silence
“The only successful substitute for brains is silence.” Unknown
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John Cusack: On being together
“A lot of people are not meant to be together. ” —John Cusack Related articles John Cusack to Play Rush Limbaugh(drudge.com)
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Jessamyn West: Saints and rogues
“We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint? ” Jessamyn West
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Vera Wang: Work, learn
“Don’t be afraid to take time to learn. It’s good to work for other people. I worked for others for 20 years. They paid me to learn.” Vera Wang
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Ian Fleming: What men want
“Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch. ” Ian Fleming
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Cyril Connolly: Love and pain
“There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. ” —Cyril Connolly.
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Stephen Evans: Mourning
“I don’t mourn the dead. I mourn the living. ” Stephen Evans
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Adlai E. Stevenson: Perilous circumstances
“To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man – and also a nation. ” Adlai E. Stevenson
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Peace Pilgrim: Criterion
“There is a criterion by which you can judge whether the thoughts you are thinking and the things you are doing are right for you. The criterion is: Have they brought you inner peace? ”—Peace Pilgrim
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Geoff Arbuthnot: Arrogant and right
“Arrogant and right is surely better than humble and wrong.” Geoff Arbuthnot
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W Somerset Maugham: Gentleman and writer
“It’s very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.” —W Somerset Maugham
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John Greenleaf Whittier: Heroism
“One brave deed makes no hero. ” John Greenleaf Whittier
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Amy Lee: Right choice?
“If people make fun of you, it probably means you’re doing something right. ” —Amy Lee
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Marc Maron: Integrity
“It’s easy to maintain your integrity when no one is offering to buy it out. ” —Marc Maron.
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Mohandas Gandhi: Wisdom
“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. ” —Mohandas Gandhi .
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Thomas J. Watson: Managing
“A manager is an assistant to his men.” —Thomas J. Watson.
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John Steinbeck: Other human beings
“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. ” —John Steinbeck.
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Helder Camara: Hungry communist
When I feed the hungry, they call me a saint. When I ask why people are hungry, they call me a communist. –Helder Camara , archbishop (1909-1999)
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Somerset Maugham: Style
“The best style is the style you don’t notice.” —Somerset Maugham.
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Thomas Arnold: Real knowledge
“Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for. ” Thomas Arnold
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Spanish proverb: Health
“A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.” —-Spanish proverb.
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Albert J. Nock: Learning and forgetting
“Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. ” —Albert J. Nock.
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Kahlil Gibran: Friendship
“Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. ”—Kahlil Gibran.
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Joe Henderson: Being tough
“Your toughness is made up of equal parts persistence and experience. You don’t so much outrun your opponents as outlast and outsmart them, and the toughest opponent of all is the one inside your head.“ —Joe Henderson, running coach and author.
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Peter De Vries: Value of marriage
“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.” —Peter De Vries.
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Confucius: Things past
“Things that are done, it is needless to speak about…things that are past, it is needless to blame.” —Confucius
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A few reasonable words
“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if it were possible, speak a few reasonable words.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, dramatist, novelist, and philosopher (1749-1832).
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Lopez Lomong: Pure, absolute joy
Today I run for pure, absolute joy! Lopez Lomong, U.S. Olympian and Lost Boy from Sudan
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Doug Larson: Utility, luxury, opulence and paradise
“Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three – and paradise is when you have none. ” Doug Larson
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Martin Farquhar Tupper: Tiring adversity
“He who does not tire, tires adversity. ” —Martin Farquhar Tupper.
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David Icke: Madness
“So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way. ” —David Icke.
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Eugene Sue: Virtue
“Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty. ” Eugene Sue Related articles Reading Eugene Peterson(writingsistersblog.wordpress.com)
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Henry Miller: Stifled impulses
“One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. ” Henry Miller
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Michel de Montaigne: Firm belief
“Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.” —Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592).
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Aldous Huxley: Facts
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” —Aldous Huxley
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Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online
Related articles TED: Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online – Markham Nolan (2012)(ted.com)
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Alfred Austin: Public opinion
“Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. ” Alfred Austin
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Edsger Dijkstra: Computer science
“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ” —Edsger Dijkstra.
