"All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold."

Brookner, Anita on god
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"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."

Brookner, Anita on youth
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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

Brown, Les on age and aging
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"If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream."

Brown, Les on desire
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"Be determined to handle any challenge in a way that will make you grow."

Brown, Les on determination
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"You have the courage and power to live your dreams."

Brown, Les on dream
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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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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"One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow."

Brown, Les on excellence
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"You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment."

Brown, Les on failure
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"Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it."

Brown, Les on fear
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"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

Brown, Les on fear
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"When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation -- it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams."

Brown, Les on fear
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"You must remain focused on your journey to greatness."

Brown, Les on focus
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"No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does."

Brookner, Anita on confession
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"Great writers are the saints for the godless."

Brookner, Anita on writers and writing
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"What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself."

Brookner, Anita on introspection   

"You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't."

Brookner, Anita on judaism and jews   

"Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists."

Brookner, Anita on love
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"A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification."

Brookner, Anita on love   

"Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."

Brookner, Anita on philosophers and philosophy
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"The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule."

Brookner, Anita on romance and romanticism
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"The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just."

Brookner, Anita on books - reading   

"Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man."

Brookner, Anita on romance and romanticism
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"A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar."

Brookner, Anita on charm
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"Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography."

Brookner, Anita on thoughts and thinking   

"A complete woman is probably not a very admirable creature. She is manipulative, uses other people to get her own way, and works within whatever system she is in."

Brookner, Anita on women
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"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."

Brookner, Anita on women
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"It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to."

Brookner, Anita on women
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"Forgive those who have hurt you."

Brown, Les on forgiveness
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"Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on."

Brown, Les on forgiveness
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"As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person."

Brown, Les on goals
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"It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike."

Browne, Sir Thomas on faces   

"To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy."

Browne, Sir Thomas on faith
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"Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them."

Browne, Sir Thomas on hatred
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"All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God."

Browne, Sir Thomas on nature   

"Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion."

Browne, Sir Thomas on passion
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"Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles."

Browne, Sir Thomas on potential
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"I could be content that we might procreate like trees, without conjunction, or that there were any way to perpetuate the world without this trivial and vulgar way of coition."

Browne, Sir Thomas on creation   

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"As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason."

Browne, Sir Thomas on reason
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