The thing I always say to people is this: "If you avoid failure, you also avoid success." ~Robert Kiyosaki
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The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency. ~Robert Quillen
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I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest. ~Alain Robert
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The way to plan the family is natural family planning not contraception. In destroying the power of giving life, through contraception, a husband or wife is doing something to self, and so it destroys the gift of life in him or her ~Mother Teresa
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I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. ~Edmund Hillary
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Behind every kick of the ball there has to be a thought. ~Dennis Bergkamp
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Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive. ~Robert Kiyosaki
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I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny. ~Barbara Mertz
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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Without consciousness, space and time are nothing. ~Robert Lanza
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No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest, for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude. ~T. S. Eliot
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There is a very simple secret to being happy. Just let go of your "demand" on this moment. Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering. You are arguing with "what is." Your demands keep you chained to the "dream state" of the conditioned mind. The desire to "control" is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake. ~Adyashanti
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No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble. ~Annie Proulx
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Gossip is hardly uplifting. ~Ginger Rogers
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No man drowns if he perseveres in praying to God, and can swim. ~Russian Proverb
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Ethanol is a premier, high performance fuel. It has tremendous environmental benefits and is a key component to energy independence for our country. ~Richard Lugar
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Not to every face is said welcome. ~Arabic Proverb
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All actors are looking for that role that is going to define who they are. When it happens, it is a good thing. ~Jeffrey Pierce
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There is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference there is, is very important. ~William James
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I'm a much better mother at 46, than if I were like, 21 or 25. ~Halle Berry
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. ~Abraham Lincoln
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The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. ~Jeffrey Kluger
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Think of your faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep. ~Chinese Proverb
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Promises are like the full moon, if they are not kept at once they diminish day by day. ~German Proverb
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