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People of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice but from a paralysing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice. Alvin Toffler

Future People Dilemma Out Absence May Victims Turn Choice Suffer

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. C. S. Lewis

Love Miracles Power Own Seeing Gives Through Disenchanted Being

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. Charles Bukowski

You Yourself Know Friends Get Jail Want Sentence Your Who

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous. Charles Bukowski

You People Cats Will Live Hundred Thousand Someday More Longer Discovered Truly Times Forever Than Ridiculous

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there. Charles Bukowski

Kind Wrong Wrong Kind Like Got Jail Bars

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. Christopher Hitchens

Faith Experience Doubt Out Throw Over Reach Dogma Choose Vintage

A great manager is someone who says, 'You come to work with me, and I'll help you be as successful as possible; I'll help you grow. I'll help you make sure you're in the right role; I'll provide the relationship for you to understand and know yourself. And I want you to be more successful than me.' Curt Coffman

Work Great Me Relationship You Yourself Says Possible Someone More Come Know Know Yourself Make Sure Understand Provide Than Role Manager Want Successful Help Who Grow Right

Memories are thoughts that arise. They're not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it's just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip. Eckhart Tolle

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over. Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life Damn Damn Thing True Over Another After Thing

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. George Orwell

Man Animals Too Enough Weak Run Plough Give Only Lay Consumes He Catch Without Does Lord Eggs Cannot Rabbits Producing Creature Milk Fast Pull

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. George Orwell

Time Writing Political Defense Our Indefensible Our Time Political Speech Largely Speech

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. George Orwell

Freedom Else Say Plus Follows Make Granted Four Two

Myths which are believed in tend to become true. George Orwell

Become Tend Myths True Which Believed

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You Discipline Backwards Sideways Plenty Never Talent Like Know Without Octopus Roller Going Movement Skates Forward

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. Henry David Thoreau

Nature You Man Law Sympathy Both Cannot Deep Appears

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain. J. K. Rowling

You Trust Think See Never Brain Itself Where Anything Keeps

One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes. Jack Canfield

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