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Zig Ziglar

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Politician, Author, Author

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
Encouragement - Family - Friendship - Happiness - Insight - Inspiration - Love - Motivation - Reality
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Astronomer, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Astrobiologist

In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic Church until 1816. The last bastion of support for the reality of witchcraft and the necessity of punishment has been the Christian churches.
Atheism - Christianity - End - Italy - People - Punishment - Reality - Religion - Support - Witchcraft
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Leonardo da Vinci

Painter, Sculptor, Inventor, Polymath

The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.
Love - Movement - Objectification - Sense - Sensuality
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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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Karl Marx

Philosopher, Economist, Political Theorist, Social Revolutionary

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Inspiration - Man - Rich
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Franz Kafka

Novelist, Writer

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.
Inspiration - Key - Oneself
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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Spiritual leader

Difference between motivation and inspiration - Motivation is external and short lived. Inspiration is internal and lifelong
Inspiration - Motivation
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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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Laozi

Philosopher

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
Death - Enlightenment - Inspiration - 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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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.
Giving - Good - Inspiration - Philosophy
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Zig Ziglar

Politician, Author, Author

Desire is the mother of motivation because that is where your motivation is born.
Mother - Motivation
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Dale Carnegie

Writer, Lecturer

History has repeatedly been changed by people who had the desire and the ability to transfer their convictions and emotions to their listeners.
Ability - Change - Conviction - Emotions - Inspiration - Listening - People
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Zig Ziglar

Politician, Author, Author

When someone we love is having difficulty and is giving us a bad time, it's better to explore the cause than to criticize the action.
Actions - Difficulty - Exploration - Family - Friendship - Giving - Movement
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Victor Hugo

Poet, Novelist, Dramatist

Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
Encouragement - Perseverance - Secrets
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Alan Watts

Philosopher

Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous to be spontaneous, in its own way and in its own time.
Allowance - Effort - Inspiration - Oneself - People
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.
Inspiration - Strength - Wellness
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George Eliot

Critic, Author, Novelist

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
Blessing - Human - Influence - Love - Soul
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Robert Kiyosaki

Writer, Author, Investor

You can always quit, so why quit now.
Inspiration - Life - Motivation - Positive - Success
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