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• Success requires strenuous effort, but it's a proven fact statistically that most people are as lazy as they dare to be and still get by.

  James Van Fleet

  Success, People, Effort

  James K. Van Fleet (1987). “Hidden Power: How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.55, Penguin

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• Beside the grand history of the glaciers and their own, the mountain streams sing the history of every avalanche or earthquake and of snow, all easily recognized by the human ear, and every word evoked by the falling leaf and drinking deer, beside a thousand other facts so small and spoken by the stream in so low a voice the human ear cannot hear them.

  John Muir

  Fall, Drinking, Earthquakes

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.95, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: "And that's the way it is." To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

  Walter Cronkite

  Anchorman, Simple, Two

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• Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Want

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• It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the clearest objects of nature; as the owl is dazzled by the light of the sun. Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; yet the slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Christian, Light, Doubt

  Saint Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Way Publishing (2014). “The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition”, p.59, Catholic Way Publishing

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• There's a turkey shortage. Are you aware of that fact? There's also a gravy shortage. It's up to $4 a gallon. Governor Chris Christie wants to build a gravy pipeline.

  David Letterman

  Turkeys, Pipeline, Want

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• Over the weekend, of course, down there in Washington, D.C., they had the big White House Correspondents' Dinner. Do you know who was really funny? President Obama. So funny, in fact, he has already been promised 'The Tonight Show' in five years.

  David Letterman

  Weekend, Years, White

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• Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind. This is a mind not simply a repository of information and skills, but a mind that is a source of creative skepticism, characterized by a willingness to challenge old assumptions and to be challenged, a spaciousness of outlook, and convictions that are deeply held, but which new facts and new experiences can always modify.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, Skills, New Experiences

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.772, Best Books on

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• First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the Federal Government, with all its massive resources, get directly involved in aiding American education?' The answer this law gave was a loud 'Yes!' - and thus we paved the way for a new era of support for education in America. This law, in fact, helped make possible more than 50 new education laws passed in my administration.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Education, America, Government

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.944, Best Books on

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• I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.

  James Herriot

  Writing, Thinking, Made

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• Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way. Being explicit doesn't tap into the mystical aspect of it either in fact, that usually kills it because people don't want to see sex so much as they want to experience the emotions that go along with it. These things are hard to convey in film because sex is such a mystery.

  David Lynch

  Sex, Powerful, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else's problems. It is a strange fact but you can often handle two difficulties-your own and somebody else's-better than you can handle your own alone. That truth is based on a subtle law of self-giving or outgoingness whereby you develop a self-strengthening in the process.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Friendship, Self, Law

  Norman Vincent Peale (1976). “The positive principle today: how to renew and sustain the power of positive thinking”, Not Avail

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• If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Vanity, Ugly

  Eugene O'Neill, Mark W. Estrin (1990). “Conversations with Eugene O'Neill”, p.37, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The whole financial structure of Wall Street seems to rise or fall on the mere fact that the Federal Reserve Bank raises or lowers the amount of interest. Any business that can't survive a one percent change must be skating on thin ice.
  Why even the poor farmer took a raise of another ten percent just to get a loan from the bank, and nobody from the government paid any attention. But you let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help to get them back into bed again.

  Will Rogers

  Country, Wall, Fall

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• I am proud of the fact there is not a human being that I have got it in for. I never met a man I didn't like.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Men, Proud

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• You are all right on time, except for the fact that time is the enemy of us all, and especially of the writer.

  Maxwell Perkins

  Time, Enemy

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• Too often critics seem more intent on seeking new ways to alter Congress than to truly learn how it functions. They might well profit from the advice of Thomas Huxley, who said a century ago: Sit down before facts as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notionor you shall learn nothing.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Children, Giving Up, Advice

  Gerald R. Ford (1973). “Selected speeches”, Desert Publications

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• A man, as we see in this world, is chaos, but he doesn't recognize that fact so he tries to bring order into everything. Order is disorder. Order creates disorder.

  Frederick Lenz

  Women, Order, Trying

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• We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not disciplined?

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Attitude, Luxury

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• No one ever achieved a goal by being interested in its achievement. One must be committed. In fact, in studying the source of people's success, I've found that persistence overshadows even talent as the most valued and effective resource in creating and shaping the quality of life. Most people give up a maddening five feet from their goal!

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Giving Up, Persistence

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Opportunity, Men, Endless Opportunities

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• Being humble does not mean being weak, reticent, or self-effacing. It means recognizing principle and putting it ahead of self. It means standing firmly for principle, even in the fact of opposition.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Humble, Mean

  Stephen M.R. Covey (2006). “The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• As long as you are trying to be something other than what you actually are, your mind wears itself out. But if you say, 'This is what I am, it is a fact that I am going to investigate and understand,' then you can go beyond.

  Jack Kornfield

  Inspirational, Long, Mind

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “The Wise Heart: Buddhist Psychology for the West”, p.178, Random House

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• We cannot enter the realm of the heart where one gender, representing half of the human race, is subordinated, suppressed, or forgotten. In fact, such a system negatively affects both men and women, holding us all back from true integration, collaboration, and union.

  Anodea Judith

  Inspirational, Heart, Men

  Anodea Judith (2013). “The Global Heart Awakens: Humanity's Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love”, p.85, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• God is within your mind. God is within all things. As a matter of fact, there is nothing that is not God.

  Frederick Lenz

  God, Mind, Matter

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