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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Man - Mindset

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Rajneesh

Guru

But one thing you have to understand clearly is that it is the man who longs for domination, and it is the woman who dominates. This is what I call coexistence: live and let live. More than that is all imagination. If you really had known what love is...the basic thing is not to create a relationship. Stand aloof as the pillars of a temple stand aloof, but support the same roof. Don't destroy the individuality of the other, enhance it if you can; otherwise, at least leave it as it is, uninterfered with.

Dominating - Imagination - Individual - Knowledge - Man - Relationship - Support

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H. L. Mencken

Journalist, Cultural Critic

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Explanation - Knowledge

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Aristotle

Philosopher

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

Activity - Existence - Life - Quality

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Gautama Buddha

Monk, Sage, Philosopher, Teacher, Religious Leader

Pain in life is inevitable but suffering is not. Pain is what the world does to you, suffering is what you do to yourself [by the way you think about the 'pain' you receive]. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. [You can always be grateful that the pain is not worse in quality, quantity, frequency, duration, etc]

Gratefulness - Pain - Quality - Suffering - Thinking - World

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Deepak Chopra

Author, Public Speaker, Alternative Medicine Advocate

Now take all these qualities together: order, balance, evolution and intelligence. What you have is a description of love. It's not the popular ideal, it is the wizard's love - the force that upholds life and nurtures it.

Balance - Evolution - Force - Order - Quality - Spiritual - Together

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Aristotle

Philosopher

Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

Health - Insanity - Man - Mindset - Sickness

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Alexis de Tocqueville

Diplomat, Political Scientist, Historian

When the reality of power has been surrendered, it's playing a dangerous game to seek to retain the appearance of it; the external aspect of vigor can sometimes support a debilitated body, but most often it manages to deal it the final blow.

Appearance - Danger - Deal - Game - Management - Power - Reality - Sometimes - Support - Vigor

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Thomas Carlyle

Philosopher, Writer, Translator, Historian, Mathematician

We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness.

Mindset - Morals - Strength - Unconscious

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Neil Gaiman

Author, Screenwriter

Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

Expose - Feelings - Mindset - People - Playing - Sound - Start - Story - Urgency - Vision - Voice - Writing

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

I don't ever tell people what to do! Even if it seems and feels that way sometimes, I don't think I should tell a person how to spend their money. I try not to tell people what to read.

Feelings - People - Sometimes - Thinking - Trial

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Mother Teresa

Nun, Missionary

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Frustration - Good - Inspiration - Knowledge - Mother - Saints - Spiritual

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential.

Accept - Effort - Inspiration - Life - People - Remembering

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Charles Spurgeon

Pastor, Author

But these dear boys and girls--there is, something to be made out of them. If now they yield themselves to Christ they may have a long, happy, and holy day before them in which they may serve God with all then hearts. Who knows what glory God may have of them? Heathen lands may call them blessed. Whole nations may be enlightened by them. O brethren and sisters, let us estimate children at their true valuation, and we shall not keep them back, but we shall be eager to lead them to Jesus at once.

Blessing - Boy - Children - Enlightenment - Girl - Glory - Heathen - Holiness - Making - Nations - Value - Whole - Yielding

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H. G. Wells

Writer

... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

Death - Drive - History - Mindset - Value

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Emily Bronte

Novelist, Poet

Good words," I replied. "But deeds must prove it also; and after he is well, remember you don't forget resolutions formed in the hour of fear.

Proof - Remembering - Wellness

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

The universal soul is the alone creator of the useful and the beautiful; therefore to make anything useful or beautiful, the individual must be submitted to the universal mind.

Creating - Mindset

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Daniel Kahneman

Psychologist, Economist

Mind is a machine for jumping to conclusions

Machine - Mindset

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John Adams

Former President of the United States

Your Letters concerning Miss N. have given me as much Concern as they ought-not knowing the Character nor what to advise, but feeling all a Fathers Tenderness, longing to be at home that I might enquire and consider and take the Care I ought.

Giving - Knowledge

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