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The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. Terry Pratchett

Pen Sharp Very Than Short Mightier Sword

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. Thomas Merton

Life Responsibility Somebody Shifting Own Living Analysis Else Out Responsible Find Finding Individual Individual Person He Fails Himself His Existence Persists Person Meaning Meaning Of Last

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love. Victor Hugo

Love You Heart Try Will Human Heart Relic Human Cannot Eternal

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. Victor Hugo

Kiss Compliment Something Through Veil Like

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for? Virginia Woolf

Me Passion Own Humming Machinery Unaccountable My Own Diving Roaring Most Always Brain Buried Soaring Then Mud Why Buzzing

Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them. Adam Grant

You People Walk Be Nice Become Nice Believe Others Say Rarely About Give Fail Boundaries Over Polite Courtesy Friendly Person Being Order Them Agreeable Nice Person Letting Set

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Lie Only Concealed Maintained Violence

Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices. Alfred A. Montapert

Will Consequences Nobody His Escape Did Choices Ever

A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked. Anais Nin

Morning Me Joy Coffee Bird Fire Settled Sun Window Through Supported Rays Leaf Accompanied Walked Escape Task

I'm not afraid to look like an idiot. Anthony Bourdain

Idiot Like Look Afraid

Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life, every day. It would have to be Tokyo, and I think the majority of chefs you ask that question would answer the same way. Anthony Bourdain

The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat. Ben Shapiro

Government Failure Capitalism People Simple Voting Job Increase Enough Spending Job Creators Boost Promise City Pension Detroit Allow Generous Until Employment Inequality Repeat Government Spending Campaign Tax Order Bankruptcy Story Against Flee Plans Wash Grow Keep Creators Income Income Inequality

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God. Brennan Manning

The thing I have discovered about working with personal finance is that the good news is that it is not rocket science. Personal finance is about 80 percent behavior. It is only about 20 percent head knowledge. Dave Ramsey

Finance Good News Knowledge Science Behavior Good News Rocket Science About Percent Only Head Discovered Rocket Personal Working Thing

Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create. Don Miguel Ruiz

Life Simple Complicate Easy Ideas Understand Very Create Beliefs

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space. Eckhart Tolle

Time You Space Sky Car Mind Half Energy Trees Seconds Tell Inside Minute Feel Look Talking Around Person Get Just Door Might Breathe Busiest Body Your Your Body Even Shut

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future. Frederick Douglass

Future Past Only Make Useful Present

That which is inhuman cannot be divine. Frederick Douglass

Divine Cannot Which Inhuman

The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence. Gary Zukav

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