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• Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lying, Achieve

  Fyodor Dostoevsky, Kenneth Lantz, Gary Saul Morson (1997). “Writer's Diary Volume 1: 1873-1876”, p.335, Northwestern University Press

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• Life is in ourselves and not in the external.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Life Is

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.12, Macmillan

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• To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Friendship, True Love, Love You

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• Realists do not fear the results of their study.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fear, Study, Realist

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• It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Love, Heart, Character

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

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• They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, I Hate You, Humor

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• Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes from voraciously reading books—long books that require focused attention. It comes from meaningful discourse with other intellectually curious people. It comes from listening and asking good questions.

  Joshua Rogers

  Meaningful, Book, Reading

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• A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

  G. Gordon Liddy

  Inspirational, Funny, Money

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• I don't know what I feel about wearing my furs anymore. I worked so hard to have a fur coat, and I don't want to wear it anymore because I'm so wrapped up in the animals. I have real deep thoughts about it because I care about the world and nature.

  Diana Ross

  Real, Animal, Fur

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The conditions conducive to deep thought have become increasingly rare in our highly mediated lives... Now we live in an attention economy, where the most in-demand commodity is 'eyeballs.

  Laura Miller

  Attention, Demand, Commodity

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• Do what you do best, and outsource the rest.

  Peter Drucker

  Humor

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• Quality requires your Presence.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Humor, Quality, Your Presence

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.165, Penguin

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• Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Heart, Humor, Caring

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• Sell your presence and purchase bewilderment.

  Rumi

  Humor, Your Presence, Sells

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• It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.

  Josh Billings

  Humor, Rich, Knows

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• You have to climb to reach a deep thought.

  Bill Vaughan

  Effort, Climbs

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• Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Ornaments, Clearness

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• There's nothing more deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist. That's the most deep thought of all. ... I can't think of anything more deep than that right.

  George W. Bush

  Thinking, Israel, Recognizing

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• One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspiring, Running, Humor

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.120, Tuttle Publishing

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• If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and you wouldn't have an opportunity.

  Bob Parsons

  Humor, Opportunity, Would Be

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• The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Inability, Remember

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• Be bold in your caring, and be bold in your dreaming.

  George H. W. Bush

  Dream, Humor, Caring

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• The only cats worth anything are the cats that take chances.

  Thelonious Monk

  Humor, Cat, Chance

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• I had learned to respect the intelligence, integrity, creativity and capacity for deep thought and hard work latent somewhere in every child. they had learned that I differed from them only in years and experience, and that as I, an ordinary human being, loved and respected them, I expected payment in kind.

  Sybil Marshall

  Children, Integrity, Hard Work

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• I am not superstitious, but the first time I saw this medal, bearing the venerated likeness of John Calvin, I kissed it, imagining that no one saw the action. I was very greatly surprised when I received this magnificent present, which shall be passed round for your inspection. On the one side is John Calvin with his visage worn by disease and deep thought, and on the other side is a verse fully applicable to him: 'He endured, as seeing Him who is invisible.'

  Charles Spurgeon

  Disease, Saws, Firsts

  "The Autobiography of Charles H. Spurgeon, Compiled from His Diaries, Letters, and Records by His Wife and His Private Secretary" by Fleming H. Revell, Vol. 2, (pp. 371-372), 1899.

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