"The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you."

Rogers, Will on adversity
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"There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Rogers, Will on experts
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"A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."

Rogers, Will on learning
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Edison, Thomas A. on opportunity
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"If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten."

Robbins, Anthony on results
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"Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing."

Motto, Engineer's on questions
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"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

Smiles, Samuel on hope
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"The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom."

Smiles, Samuel on wisdom   

"We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before."

Adams, James Truslow on wisdom   

"In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."

Bible on wisdom
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"He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming."

Balfour, Arthur James on books - reading
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"The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers."

Barstow, Stan on books - reading
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"He that loves a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may innocently divert and pleasantly entertain himself, as in all weathers, as in all fortunes."

Barrow on books - reading
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"Read nothing that you do not care to remember, and remember nothing you do not mean to use."

Blackie, Professor on books - reading
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

Brodsky, Joseph on books - reading
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"Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it."

Conwell, Russel H. on opportunity   

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

Berle, Milton on opportunity
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"Nothing is so beautiful as spring -- when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing."

Hopkins, Gerard Manley on spring   

"Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious."

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington on discretion   

"I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists."

Roth, Philip on discretion   

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

Kipling, Rudyard on words
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"If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it."

Hays, Brian on perseverance
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"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."

Hoffer, Eric on propaganda
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"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love."

Voltaire on love
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"Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider."

Bacon, Francis on books - reading
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"A distracted existence leads us to no goal."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on goals
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"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on books - reading
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"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."

Asimov, Isaac on books - reading
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"Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear."

Barrett, E.S. on books - reading
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"Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other."

Sontag, Susan on bores and boredom
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"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born."

Aldrich, Thomas B. on bores and boredom
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"I have a fear of being boring."

Bale, Christian on bores and boredom   

"Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face."

Baudrillard, Jean on bores and boredom
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"Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life."

Adler, Mortimer J. on books - reading
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"Beware of the person of one book."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on books - reading
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"To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry."

Bachelard, Gaston on books - reading
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"A minute's success pays the failure of years."

Browning, Robert on success
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"The wise person has long ears and a short tongue."

Proverb, German on wisdom
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"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties."

Keller, Helen on success
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"The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over."

Miller, Henry on prison
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