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Edmund Burke
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How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
Daniel Webster
Frame
Hasty
How
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What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.
Daniel Webster
Does
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
Daniel Webster
Bad
Conviction
Done
Many
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison
Because
Just
Just Because
Mean
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Thomas A. Edison
Better
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Way
There
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There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. Edison
Abandon
Absolutely
Appalled
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Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.
Thomas A. Edison
Accomplishment
Always
Being
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The reason a lot of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around wearing overalls looking like hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
Around
Because
Goes
Hard
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The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas A. Edison
Been
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Has-Been
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What you are will show in what you do.
Thomas A. Edison
Show
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You
What
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Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
Thomas A. Edison
Anything
Invent
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We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.
Thomas Merton
Alone
Also
Begin
Convinced
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I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.
Richard Branson
Freedom
Gives
I Love
Life
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I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
Richard Branson
Certainly
Dyslexic
Failed
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You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
Richard Branson
Doing
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My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'
Richard Branson
Anything
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
C. S. Lewis
Always
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Keep
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. Lewis
Expense
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
C. S. Lewis
Everyone
Future
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
C. S. Lewis
Simply
Become
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Daily
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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
Thomas Merton
Constantly
Darkness
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Even
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Thomas Sowell
Articulate
Doers
More
Since
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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
Thomas Sowell
Between
Big
Country
Democrats
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The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
Thomas Merton
Classroom
Done
Learning
Least
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis
Big
Infinite
Infinitely
Left
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On the last day of January 1915, in the second year of the Great War, down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into this world.
Thomas Merton
Borders
Came
Day
Down
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
C. S. Lewis
Progress
Case
Doing
Man
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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Tony Robbins
Actions
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Consistently
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We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Tony Robbins
Change
Exactly
Exactly What
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It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
Thomas Sowell
Administer
Afford
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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.
Tony Robbins
Action
Actually
Enough
Few
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If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Tony Robbins
Always
Done
Get
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
Ted Turner
Adequately
Good
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There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'
C. S. Lewis
Done
God
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Ted Turner
Entrepreneur
Job
Now
Son
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis
Believing
Humble
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Pious
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Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.
Ted Turner
Because
Better
Bigger
Just
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C. S. Lewis
Break
Fact
Laws
Miracles
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
C. S. Lewis
Apart
Before
Began
Done
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Everyone has noticed how hard it is to turn our thoughts to God when everything is going well with us... While what we call 'our own life' remains agreeable, we will not surrender it to Him. What, then, can God do in our interests but make 'our own life' less agreeable to us, and take away the plausible sources of false happiness?
C. S. Lewis
Happiness
Hard
Interests
Less
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I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
Ted Turner
Anything
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
Carl Sagan
Bad
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I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.
Carl Sagan
Bright
Classes
Night
Rise
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
Ted Turner
Been
Blood
Financial
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If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Carl Sagan
Believe
Disservice
Long
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But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Carl Sagan
Brothers
Clown
Columbus
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
Ted Turner
Again
Leave
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The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?
Carl Sagan
Each
Function
Weapons
Gotta
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I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.
Ted Turner
Entertainment
News
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