"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions."

Rohn, Jim on decisions
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"When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it."

Rohn, Jim on desire
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"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

Rohn, Jim on education
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"For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward."

Rohn, Jim on effort
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"Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future."

Rohn, Jim on experience
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"Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day."

Rohn, Jim on failure   

"So free we seem, so fettered we are!"

Browning, Robert on freedom
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"Income seldom exceeds personal development."

Rohn, Jim on learning   

"You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough."

Lewis, Joe E. on life
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"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

Twain, Mark on dress
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"Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty --the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself."

Twain, Mark on duty
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"Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."

Twain, Mark on duty
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"The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."

Twain, Mark on joy
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"True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment."

Lowell, James Russell on knowledge   

"He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing."

Lowell, James Russell on knowledge   

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"There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat."

Lowell, James Russell on argument   

"Light is the symbol of truth."

Lowell, James Russell on light   

"The surest plan to make a man is, think him so."

Lowell, James Russell on praise
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"What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral."

Lowell, James Russell on privilege   

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Twain, Mark on dissent
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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

Frank, Al on denial
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"I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them."

Lewis, Joe E. on memory   

"They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses."

Lewis, Joe E. on medicine   

"There's only one thing money won't buy, and that is poverty."

Lewis, Joe E. on money   

"The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love."

Lewis, Joe E. on taxes and taxation
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"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

Twain, Mark on adversity
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world."

Twain, Mark on death
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"We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier."

Twain, Mark on death
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"All say, How hard it is that we have to die -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live."

Twain, Mark on death
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"The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came."

Lowell, James Russell on anxiety
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"When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also."

Browning, Robert on emotions
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"Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it."

Swindoll, Charles on attitude
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"Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults."

Franklin, Benjamin on enemies
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"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

Franklin, Benjamin on education
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"God heals and the doctor takes the fee."

Franklin, Benjamin on doctors
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"What has become clear to you since we last met?"

Franklin, Benjamin on discovery
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"All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse."

Franklin, Benjamin on discontent
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"Let thy discontents be thy secrets."

Franklin, Benjamin on discontent
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