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It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
Orison Swett Marden
Success
Attitude
Achievement
Mind
Killer
Hopeful
Wins
Cheerful
Builder
Optimism
Buoyant
Pessimism
A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
Paolo Bacigalupi
Nature
Wise
Together
Understanding
Think
Our
Would
About
Supply
Supply Chain
Pieces
How
Fit
Human
Against
Chain
Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream.
Peter McWilliams
Tough
Pay
Living
Willing
Dream
Small
Uncomfortable
Price
Comfortable
Get
May
Being
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Philip K. Dick
You
Reality
Go Away
Go
Stop
Which
Away
Believing
It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.
Publilius Syrus
Pay
Unable
Fraud
Borrow
It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
Raymond Chandler
Mind
Country
Way
Fraudulent
Constant
Constant Flow
Pretty
One-Way
More
Trivial
Obvious
Advertising
Caused
Than
Human
Human Mind
Conquer
Thing
Flow
Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.
Rebecca Solnit
Kindness
Day
You
Yourself
Every Day
World
Style
Every
Minute
Generosity
Hour
Well
Making
Just
Might
The only way you can serve God is by serving other people.
Rick Warren
God
You
People
Other
Way
Only
Serve
Serving
If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.
Rick Warren
God
You
People
Will
Nothing
Would
Only
Perfect
Perfect People
Get
Done
Anybody
Available
Use
Used
The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Robert A. Heinlein
Government
Sense
Universe
Never
Make
Built
Contract
Did
Suspect
The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill.
Robert Anton Wilson
Other
Marks
Border
Unreal
Rival
Between
Real
Fixed
Just
Where
Place
Gangs
Standstill
Each
Fought
Last
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Down
Consequences
Everybody
Late
Soon
Banquet
Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
Seneca
Love
Friendship
Benefits
Sometimes
Always
Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.
Simone de Beauvoir
Work
Truth
World
Men
Own
Confuse
Absolute
Point
Point Of View
Absolute Truth
Like
Itself
Representation
Which
View
Describe
I think I've never stopped feeling like a kid.
Stan Lee
Feeling
Think
Kid
Never
Like
Stopped
The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.
Suzanne Brockmann
Friendship
Relationship
True Friendship
Lust
Dig
Solid
Given
True
Attraction
Often
Romance
Want
Romantic
Form
Novel
Elements
Foundation
If people who cherish freedom, who know the importance of mutual respect and are aware of the imperative necessity to establish a constructive and critical debate, if these people are not ready to speak out, to be more committed and visible, then we can expect sad, painful tomorrows. The choice is ours.
Tariq Ramadan
Sad
Freedom
Respect
People
Speak
Debate
Visible
Ours
Out
Critical
Mutual
Mutual Respect
More
Constructive
Imperative
Importance
Know
Ready
Cherish
Expect
Committed
Establish
Then
Choice
Painful
Who
Aware
Tomorrows
Necessity
I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.
Taslima Nasrin
Freedom
Offended
Believe
Everyone
Absolute
Absolute Freedom
Freedom Of Expression
Offend
Expression
Right
Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great rationalizer: it presents us with selected versions of our own past, so that we do not recognize our own mistakes and avoid the necessity to make painful choices.
Theodore Dalrymple
Great
Mistakes
Past
Own
Our
Considering
Our Lives
Recognize
Scant
Selected
Attention
Importance
Make
Does
Versions
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Us
Choices
Painful
Avoid
Resentment
Lives
Receives
Necessity
Damage
Presents
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
Death
Business
Heart
Will
Minds
Approve
Pursue
He
Firm
Unto
Principles
His
Conduct
Tis
Little
Little Minds
Whose
Shrink
Conscience
My take is, privacy is precious. I think privacy is the last true luxury. To be able to live your life as you choose without having everyone comment on it or know about.
Valerie Plame
Life
You
Privacy
Luxury
Live
Think
Everyone
Able
About
Having
Take
True
Know
Without
Comment
Precious
Your
Choose
Last
The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
Voltaire
Tyrant
Laws
Knows
His
Sovereign
Caprice
Who
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Life
Best
Good
Communism
Men
Way
Give
Only
Selfishness
Effort
Contribute
Human
Social
Ask
Human Life
Each
Universal
Bring
Need
Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
W. L. George
Love
Food
Cats
Pet
Penalties
Know
Obtain
Without
How
Shelter
Labor
Confinement
Success in management requires learning as fast as the world is changing.
Warren Bennis
Success
Learning
Management
World
Changing
Requires
Fast
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.
William Ellery Channing
Best
Great
Thoughts
Men
Superior
Pour
Enjoy
Minds
Books
Ours
Great Men
Give
Through
Most
Talk
Souls
Chiefly
Precious
Intercourse
Us
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