"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."

Hemingway, Ernest on hunting   

"If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on control
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"We will either find a way, or make one."

Hannibal on achievement
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"No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time."

Rowland, Helen on reputation
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"That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer."

Bronowski, Jacob on science   

"Science knows only one commandment -- contribute to science."

Brecht, Bertolt on science   

"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought - particularly for people who can never remember where they left things."

Allen, Woody on science
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"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

Kipling, Rudyard on certainty
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"All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They."

Kipling, Rudyard on people   

"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

Kipling, Rudyard on excuses   

"Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating."

Waitley, Denis on joy
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television."

Vidal, Gore on opportunity
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"To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve."

Allen, James on desire
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"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."

Allen, James on thoughts and thinking
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"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on thoughts and thinking
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"True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself."

Miller, Henry on submission
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"Wall Street traders that disdained the need for government regulation in good times, insisted on being rescued by government in bad times. Success was individual achievement, failure was a social problem."

Lewis, Michael on 2008 subprime mortgage crisis   

"It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor."

Hoffer, Eric on neighbors
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"Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on vanity
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"The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear."

Billings, Josh on anxiety
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"Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment."

Benchley, Robert on work
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"What is work and what is not work are questions that perplex the wisest of men."

Bhagavad Gita on work
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"After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life."

Brodsky, Joseph on work
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."

Butler, Samuel on work
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"Every noble work is at first impossible."

Carlyle, Thomas on work
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"If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on laughter
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"A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog."

London, Jack on charity
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"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world."

Dyer, Wayne on love
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"There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively."

Dyer, Wayne on anger
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"How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen, What old December's bareness everywhere!"

Shakespeare, William on absence
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

Wilde, Oscar on emotions
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"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."

Jefferson, Thomas on luck
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"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

Jefferson, Thomas on luck
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"Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting."

Beecher, Henry Ward on victory
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"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."

Churchill, Winston on victory
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"The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give."

Cosell, Howard on victory