"Self-sacrifice is the real miracle out of which all the reported miracles grow."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on sacrifice
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"Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning."

Huessy, Rosenstock on language   

"At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on dictionaries   

"I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on god
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"Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on grammar
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"The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave."

Steiner, George on popular culture   

"When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat."

Thoreau, Henry David on grammar   

"Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter."

Forbes, B. C. on opportunity
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"A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity."

Unknown, Source on opportunity
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"Why are there so many people who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity?"

Unknown, Source on opportunity   

"Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself."

Ellis, Havelock on pain
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech."

Rivarol, Antoine on speech
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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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"God give me the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed;Give me courage to change things which must be changed;And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other. "

Niebuhr, Reinhold on uncategorised
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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on change
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"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed."

Vivekananda, Swami on fear
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"When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear."

Buddha on fear
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"I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise."

Buddha on experience
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"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines, but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."

Buddha on endurance
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"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

Gingrich, Newt on perseverance
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"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."

Buck, Pearl S. on youth
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"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes."

Cato The Elder on anger
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"There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust."

Francis De Sales, St. on anger
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"If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?"

Adams, John on service
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"You were placed on this earth to create, not to compete."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on service   

"Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself."

Auchincloss, Louis on service   

"We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know."

Auden, W. H. on service
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"He who helps in the saving of others, Saves himself as well."

Aue, Hartmann Von on service
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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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"Service is the rent we pay for the privilege of living on this earth."

Chisholm, Shirley Anita on service
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"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time."

Edelman, Marian Wright on service
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"Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric batteries have been the favorite animal of a Mohammed, Cardinal Richlieu, Crebillon, Rousseau, Wieland."

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von on cats
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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 only way around is through."

Frost, Robert on achievement
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"Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal."

Starr, Pamela Vaull on vision
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"Dream the impossible dream, Fight the unbeatable foe, Strive with your last ounce of courage, to reach the unreachable star."

Darion, Joe on dream
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"Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others."

Augustine, St. on service
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"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."

Beauvoir, Simone De on service
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"Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast."

Jefferson, Thomas on exercise
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