"Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody."

Adams, Franklin P. on elections   

"To summarize the summary, people are a problem."

Adams, Douglas on
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"Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"

Adams, Douglas on atheism
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"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

Adams, Douglas on trying
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"What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer."

Adams, Douglas on challenges
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"To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity."

Adams, Douglas on service
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"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move."

Adams, Douglas on humankind
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"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."

Adams, Douglas on airplane and aviation
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"The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor."

Adams, Douglas on enemies
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"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."

Adams, Douglas on dream
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"As a rule, ones' apprehension causes more trauma than the event.."

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"We are born anew within every strangers' eye"

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"THE ONE THAT BURNS THEIR BRIDGE OF LOVE REFLECTS THE ANGER OF THEIR FRIGHTENED SOUL...."

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we have stopped saying It got lost, and say, I lost it."

Harris, Sidney J. on adulthood
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"I believe a man is born first unto himself --for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers."

Lawrence, D. H. on adulthood   

"It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen."

Bristol, Claude M. on affirmation
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"The intelligence of fear rationalizes cowardice and deceit.."

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"Many struggle to maintain their identity lest they disapoint others"

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"You are the only one thinking in your mind.."

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"If ones' word or promise need be reminded, then they are neither.."

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"Time is all around in shrouds of endless goals, fast for happy hearts and slow for tortured souls"

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off."

Montague, C. E. on addiction
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"In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you."

Holiday, Billie on addiction
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"It is not I who become addicted, it is my body."

Cocteau, Jean on addiction
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"Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be."

Proverb, German on adaptability
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"One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind."

Collier, Robert on affirmation
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"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

Epictetus on affirmation
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"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

Marden, Orison Swett on achievement
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"Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him."

Mann, Golo on achievement
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"Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate; still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on achievement
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"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."

Kuralt, Charles on achievement
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"The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses."

Hill, Napoleon on achievement
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"Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy."

Hemans, Felicia D. on affliction
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"“We must be the world we want to create”"

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on affirmation   

"I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that."

Anderson, Gillian on affirmation
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"You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be."

Viscott, David on affirmation
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"You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by making an affirmation which clicks."

Shinn, Florence Scovel on affirmation
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"We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation."

Shinn, Florence Scovel on affirmation
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"When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, helps others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them"

Roberts, Jane on affirmation
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"As long as you know what it is you desire, then by simply affirming that it is yours -- firmly and positively, with no ifs, buts, or maybes -- over and over again, from the minute you arise in the morning until the time you go to sleep at night, and as many times during the day as your work or activities permit, you will be drawn to those people, places, and events that will bring your desires to you."

Reed, Scott on affirmation
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