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The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Man Soul Worth Damn Worrying Would Would-Be About Generally Always His Whether Who
The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best. Orison Swett Marden
Best You Achievement Man Quality Yourself Will Big Depend Possible See Self Sort How Accomplishments Very Get Size Your Largely Image
Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward. Orison Swett Marden
You Man Heart Made Whatever Possible Dreaming Propensity Look Empty Discourage Upward Realities Your Aspire Desires
The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you. Orison Swett Marden
Great You Better Opportunity Inside See Great Opportunity Part Him Your Who Grasp Right Belongs Chance
Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life. Orison Swett Marden
Life Men Unless Earth Spirit Prevails Never Generosity Ideal Among
When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit. Orison Swett Marden
Happy Mind Will Holding Once Easy Habit Pictures Prosperous Cheerful Opposite Form Formed
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. Orison Swett Marden
Best Good Mediocrity Superiority Wrong Between Fairly Infinite Just Difference Little Right
Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds. Orison Swett Marden
Men Miracles Odds Incredible Has-Been Priceless Perform Been Spur Which Against Helped Necessity
The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell. Orson Scott Card
Will Live Tell Lies Always Stories
The priests say that God created our souls, and that just puts us under the control of another puppeteer. If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make. Orson Scott Card
God Will Control Every Our Say Responsible Puppeteer He Priests Puts Make Another Souls Just Then Us Created Choice
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit. P. G. Wodehouse
Sit Typewriter Bit Just Curse
I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. P. G. Wodehouse
See Could He Disgruntled Being Far Actually
But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies. Pablo Neruda
Day You Heart Crime Will One Day Out Lies Born Seek Bullets Where Each
Love came in wounded and frantic ways to my dismaying family. Pat Conroy
Love Family Ways Frantic Wounded Came
Being with someone who is smart and gives good advice adds tremendously wonderful elements to your life. Patricia Cornwell
Life Good Wonderful Smart Advice Tremendously Adds Someone Gives Being Good Advice Your Who Elements
Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment. Patrick Lencioni
Disappointment Design Recipe Perfect Trying Plan
I have yet to meet members of a leadership team who I thought lacked the intelligence or the domain expertise required to be successful. I've met many, however, who failed to foster organizational health. Their companies were riddled with politics, various forms of dysfunction, and general confusion about their direction and mission. Patrick Lencioni
Politics Health Leadership Intelligence Confusion Thought Met Meet Members About General Direction Various Failed Mission However Were Domain Expertise Dysfunction Forms Successful Required Organizational Team Riddled Who Companies Many Foster
Empty values statements create cynical and dispirited employees, alienate customers, and undermine managerial credibility. Patrick Lencioni
Values Employees Cynical Alienate Statements Undermine Empty Managerial Customers Create Credibility
If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth. Patrick Lencioni
Love Truth You People Better Enough Tell Lead Like Want To Love Them Even
You have to build trust among team members so that people feel free to admit what they don't know, make mistakes, ask for help if they need it, apologize when necessary, and not hold back their opinions. Patrick Lencioni
You Trust People Free Mistakes Build Back Members Admit Feel Know Make Opinions Hold Ask Apologize Team Help Among Necessary Need
When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer. Patrick Lencioni
Truth Best Trust Conflict Admitting Nothing Other Everyone Members Possible More Pursuit Wrong Know Answer Becomes Than Capable Then Team Each
I admire people who have that integrity, who know how to peacefully move through a situation - and it's reflected in how they deal with things like loss. Patrick Wang
Integrity People Situation Admire Through Like Know Deal How Loss Reflected Move Who Peacefully Things
Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation that NASA's budget is too small for the job. Paul Davies
Space Job Too Astronauts Small Stuck Attempts Budget New NASA Been American Going Orbit Realisation Exploration Boldly Nowhere Phase
The juggernaut that is steampunk, like Dr. Loveless's giant mechanical spider in the 1999 film version of 'The Wild, Wild West,' seems capable of crushing all naysayers. Paul Di Filippo
Spider Wild Wild West Giant Seems Crushing Like West Version Capable Mechanical Film Dr
During my sojourn in ironclad atheism, the primary arsenal leveled against Christianity had been its failure on empirical grounds. Surely, enlightened reason offered a more coherent cosmos. Surely, Occam's razor cut the faithful free from blind faith. There is no proof of God; therefore, it is unreasonable to believe in God. Paul Kalanithi
God Faith Failure Free Faithful Believe Christianity Atheism Proof Cosmos More Unreasonable Had Primary Razor Empirical Blind Blind Faith Surely Been Arsenal Offered Against Cut Reason Grounds Therefore Leveled Enlightened Coherent
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve. Paul Nitze
Dangerous Achieve Most Error Trying Forgetting Human Forms Human Error
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