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• Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Impossible Things, Possible And Impossible, Waiting

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• Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

  Propertius

  Money, Men, Gold

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• Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Unique, Men, Doe

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• Well begun is half done.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Perseverance, Philosophical

  Aristotle (2012). “Politics”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  War, Men, Political

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• If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Witty, Jobs

  Woody Allen, Robert E. Kapsis, Kathie Coblentz (2006). “Woody Allen: Interviews”, p.44, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I rest in the light of forgiveness. I forgive myself and others for that which is done (and better left undone) and also that which is not done (and better if done). I give myself permission to enjoy this moment without guilt. I freely release all uncertainty, regret, and fear.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Regret, Light, Giving

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• Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Poor Richard's Almanack, June 1746

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• You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Change, Moving

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• I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sunset, Losing, Compromise

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.50, Fordham Univ Press

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• Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

  Evan Esar

  Inspirational, Home, Doe

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• Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth.

  Laozi

  Apology, Body, Infinite

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Wise, Funny Inspirational

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• Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

  Marcel Marceau

  Funny, Music, Silence

  US News & World Report, February 23, 1987.

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• When all is said and done, more is said than done.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Football, College

  Twitter post from Aug 22, 2011

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• O Captain! My Captain! our fearful trip is done.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Sad, Death

  "O Captain! My Captain!" l. 1 (1871)

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• So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Intention, Satisfied

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.135

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• Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.

  Wilson Mizner

  Achievement, Desire, Looks

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• Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.

  Confucius

  Achievement, Desire, Accomplished

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Believe, Doubt

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

  B. C. Forbes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Technology

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• We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Trust, Jobs, Healing

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• Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

  John Bonifaz

  Motivational, Perseverance, War

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• So little done, so much to do.

  Cecil Rhodes

  Life, Business, Littles

  Said to Lewis Michell on the day he died, in Lewis Michell Life of Rhodes (1910) vol. 2, ch. 39

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