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Author, Columnist, Essayist, Orator, Journalist, Social Critic

I can never quite decide whether the anti-Columbus movement is merely risible or faintly sinister. It is sinister, though, because it is an ignorant celebration of stasis and backwardness, with an unpleasant tinge of self-hatred.

Ignorance - Oneself

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Zig Ziglar

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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Jiddu Krishnamurti

Leader, Philosopher, Writer

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

Oneself - Spiritual - Transformation - World

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist, Entrepreneur, Publisher, Lecturer

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Accept - Comfort - Man - Oneself

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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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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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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Philologist, Cultural Critic, Scholar

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

Oneself

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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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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Former President of the United States

A serf-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead no justification for the existence of child labor, no economic reason for chiseling workers' wages or stretching workers' hours.

Economy - Oneself - Work

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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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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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Andy Warhol

Artist, Director, Producer

When I did my self-portrait, I left all the pimples out because you always should. Pimples are a temporary condition and they don't have anything to do with what you really look like. Always omit the blemishes-they're not part of the good picture you want.

Conditioning - Oneself - Wants

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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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Ayn Rand

Writer, Philosopher

[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

Altruism - Dictatorship - Existence - Individualism - Man - Morals - Oneself - Sacrifice - Value - Virtue

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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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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

[Repentance] means unlearning all the self-conceit and self -will that we have been training ourselves into... It means killing part of yourself, under-going a kind of death.

Kindness - Meaning - Oneself

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