"The real contest is always between what you've done and what you're capable of doing. You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else."

Gaberino, Geoffrey on excellence
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"If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody."

Floyd, Ray on excellence   

"Good enough never is."

Field, Debbi on excellence   

"I can do small things in a great way."

Clarke, James Freeman on excellence   

"Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best."

Carnegie, Andrew on excellence
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"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it you will land among the stars."

Brown, Les on excellence
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"Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life."

Angelis, Barbara De on difficulties
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"There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself meeting them."

Bottome, Phyllis on difficulties   

"Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic."

Dali, Salvador on drugs
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"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds."

Thoreau, Henry David on eccentricity
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"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."

Thoreau, Henry David on advice
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"They shoulda called me Little Cocaine, I was sniffing so much of the stuff! My nose got big enough to back a diesel truck in, unload it, and drive it right out again."

Richard, Little on drugs   

"I tried to give up drugs by drinking."

Reed, Lou on drugs
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"I learned why they're called wonder drugs -- you wonder what they'll do to you."

Miller, Harlan on drugs   

"Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind."

Kipling, Rudyard on drugs
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"We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers."

Pankhurst, Emmeline on protest   

"The world has always gone through periods of madness so as to advance a bit on the road to reason."

Broch, Hermann on madness
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"I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me."

Baudelaire, Charles on madness
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"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."

Aristotle on madness
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"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."

Ginsberg, Allen on insanity
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"In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom!"

Ballard, J. G. on madness
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"Madness is the absolute break with the work of art; it forms the constitutive moment of abolition, which dissolves in time the truth of the work of art."

Foucault, Michel on madness
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"Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death."

Laing, R. D. on madness
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"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

Koestler, Arthur on illusion
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"Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not."

Beadle, E. R. on illusion   

"A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it."

Russell, Bertrand on illusion
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"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."

Allen, Woody on illusion
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"To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness."

Traherne, Thomas on madness   

"I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

Socrates on humankind
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"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."

Socrates on knowledge
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"An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all"

Socrates on education
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"Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe."

Thoreau, Henry David on doubt
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"There is only one good -- knowledge; and only one evil -- ignorance."

Socrates on evil
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"You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality."

Disney, Walt on dream
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"There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail."

Hoffer, Eric on freedom
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"Only when the last tree has been cut down; Only when the last river has been poisoned; Only when the last fish has been caught; Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten."

Proverb, American Indian on money
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"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

Aristotle on education
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"All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual."

Kundera, Milan on fiction   

"Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come."

Hugo, Victor on ideas
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