“Authority is never without hate. ”
—Euripides.
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Joe Henderson: Your toughest opponent
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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Joe Henderson: Being tough
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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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Niccolo Machiavelli: Gift of penetration
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Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.
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Cicero: Black at heart
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“The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret – that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Persecution and not…
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Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. –Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882).
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Ambrose Bierce: Love
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Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage. –Ambrose Bierce, author and editor (1842-1914)
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Bernard Iddings Bell: To love
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“To love is not a passive thing. To love is active voice. When I love I do something, I function, I give. I do not love in order that I may be loved back again, but for the creative joy of loving. And every time I do so love I am freed, at least a little, by the outgoing of love, from enslavement to that most intolerable of master, myself.”
—Bernard Iddings Bell
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Shane Warne: Love the game!
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“I just play because I love playing and I try and take as many wickets as I can. ”
—Shane Warne
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Sense of reason
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“If some things don’t make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose. ”
—Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Benjamin Franklin: Knowledgeable investment
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“An investment in knowledge still yields the best returns.”
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Lara Flynn: Humor
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“Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don’t get it. ”
—Lara Flynn
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George Eliot: Lunacy, at large
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“Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.”
—George Eliot, Middle March
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Ray Bradbury: Insanity
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Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. –Ray Bradbury, writer (1920-2012).
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Thomas Paine: Harder the conflict
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“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.”
—Thomas Paine.
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Colin Powell: Being progressive
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Many interviewers when they come to talk to me, think they’re being progressive by not mentioning in their stories any longer that I’m black. I tell them, ‘Don’t stop now. If I shot somebody you’d mention it.’
—Colin Powell.
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Arthur Schopenhauer: An hour's reading
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“I’ve never know any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage. ”
—Arthur Schopenhauer.
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Thornton Wilder: Write to express
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If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good. –Thornton Wilder, writer (1897-1975).
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Stevie Wonder: Eyes lie…
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“Eyes lie if you ever look into them for the character of the person. ”
—Stevie Wonder.
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Love
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“What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. ”
—Leo Buscaglia
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What the body says
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The church says: The body is a sin. Science says: The body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The body says: I am a fiesta. –Eduardo Galeano, journalist and novelist (b. 1940)
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Voltaire: Questions
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“Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
—Voltaire.
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William James: As you think, so shall you be
William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.
—William James.
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Flattery
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. –George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)
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Oscar Wilde: Friends, acquaintances and enemies
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“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.”
—Oscar Wilde.
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Benjamin Disraeli: Write a book
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The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it.
—Benjamin Disraeli.
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Isaac Asimov: Writing
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Lack of purpose
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“More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent. ”
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Petrarch: Love life
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“True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.”
—Petrarch.
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Blogging
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The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them
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