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• I'm not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly.

  Ayn Rand

  Brave, Coward, Consequence

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• There are many people who live in what I call 'No-man's Land,' a place where you're not really happy, but you're not unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place. It's a place where people numb themselves to their dreams. It's where they dismiss hope and accept what's in front of them instead of driving toward what they really want in life.

  Tony Robbins

  Dream, Men, Land

  "Tony Robbins: Unleashing the Power". www.success.com. December 1, 2008.

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• I don't know enough to be incompetent.

  Woody Allen

  Incompetent, Knows

  "Fictional character: Kleinman". Shadows and Fog, www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it...The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Thinking, Passing On

  "Tributes to Steve Jobs", www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Every day I meet people who have so much to give but have been...frighten ed enough to hold it back. It's time to stop complying with the system and draw your own map. You have brilliance in you, your contribution is essential, and the art you create is precious. Only you can do it, and you must.

  Seth Godin

  Art, People, Giving

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• It's rather nice to think of oneself as a sailor bending over the map of one's mind and deciding where to go and how to go. The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Strong, Nice, Thinking

  Katherine Mansfield, Vincent O'Sullivan, Margaret Scott (2008). “The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.

  Frederick Buechner

  Earth, Fool, Obvious

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Feb 20, 2017

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• The simple program of Christ for winning the whole world is to make each person he touches magnetic enough with love to draw others.

  Frank Laubach

  Winning, Simple, World

  Frank Charles Laubach (1990). “Man of Prayer: Selected Writings of a World Missionary”

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• After enough concussions the head injuries blur together.

  James Nicoll

  Together, Injury, Head Injuries

  Usenet article, 2002.

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• There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul;
  we search for its outlines in our lives. Those who
  are lucky enough to find it, ease like water over a stone,
  onto its fluid contours, and are home.

  Josephine Hart

  Home, Water, Soul

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• According to government auditors, the stimulus money is being held up because there aren't enough government workers to oversee the spending. So follow me, in other words, government workers who aren't there are needed to spend money we don't have to create jobs that don't exist.

  Jay Leno

  Jobs, Government, Auditors

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• When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous enterprise of some individual. It was Commodore Vanderbilt's enterprise in switching first from running a ferryboat to running other ships, and then, when he was well along in years, his enterprise in switching into railroading, that created what was to become one of the most notable fortunes in the history of the world.

  B. C. Forbes

  Running, Business, America

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• But things don't necessarily have to be that expensive to be good. As long as they are expensive enough to last.

  Daphne Guinness

  Long, Interesting, Lasts

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• When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.

  Albert Einstein

  Track, Interesting, Lucky

  Attributed in "Albert Einstein: A Documentary Biography" by Carl Seelig, (p. 80), 1956.

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• If we had strength and faith enough to trust ourselves entirely to God; and follow Him simply wherever He should lead us, we should have no need of any great effort of mind to reach perfection.

  Francois Fenelon

  Should Have, Perfection, Effort

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.168, Lulu.com

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• I really love comedy and weirdly enough, I love how my journey has ended up. I get to laugh all day long.

  Anna Faris

  Journey, Long, Laughing

  "Anna Faris answers film question 'What's Your Number?'". Interview with Zorianna Kit, uk.reuters.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.

  Traci Bingham

  Art, Action, Shows

  "Get Ready for the Battle of the Baywatch Babes". Interview with Eric Irondale, www.tvguide.com. March 25, 2000.

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• Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it.

  Adrian Rogers

  Writing, Dust, People

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• Greed is supported by an endless cast of what-ifs. Greedy people can never have enough to satisfy the need they feel in light of every conceivable eventuality.

  Andy Stanley

  Light, People, Greed

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• For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

  Tertullian

  Men, Assuming, Knows

  Tertullian (2012). “The Sacred Writings of Tertullian (Annotated Edition)”, p.362, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Luck plays an enormous role in trading success. Some people were lucky enough to be born smart, while others were even smarter and got born lucky.

  Ed Seykota

  Smart, Play, People

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• Risk no more that you can afford to lose, and also risk enough so that a win is meaningful.

  Ed Seykota

  Meaningful, Winning, Risk

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• A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

  Barry Mann

  Guitar, Piano, Being Played

  "Q&A: Mann & Weil on surving as songwriters". Interview with Steve Sailer, www.upi.com. July 25, 2002.

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• I can't seem to write young enough anymore.

  Cynthia Weil

  Writing, Young, Seems

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• I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development. Then, and before physical deterioration obtrudes, I shall go on some last wilderness trip to a place I have known and loved. I shall not return.

  Everett Ruess

  Philosophy, Short Life, Interesting

  Everett Ruess (1983). “Everett Ruess, a vagabond for beauty”

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