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• Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Future, Stories

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• Remember that you are in actor in a play of such a kind that the author chooses...For this is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another.

  Epictetus

  Life, Play, Actors

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• Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!

  Robert Ringer

  Life, Simple, Justice

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• How we conduct ourselves in this life will determine what we will be in all the eternities to come. To receive the blessings of the sealing that our Heavenly Father has given to us, we have to keep the commandments and conduct ourselves in such a way that our families will want to live with us in the eternities.

  Robert D. Hales

  Life, Father, Blessing

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• But fortunately for us and for all men, it has not been given unto us to judge, nor to execute, nor to measure out the days and the years of men. We may be most grateful that such matters belong to the Lord God our Father, who sees things past and things to come. And, we may be grateful for the assurance that there is plan and purpose in this world, and in our own lives.

  Richard L. Evans

  Life, Father, Grateful

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• By seeing life's experiences on through to the end, on our small scale we can finally say, as Jesus did on the cross, "It is finished". We too can then have "finished [our] preparations," having done the particular work God gave each of us to do.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, Jesus, Taken

  "Men and Women of Christ".

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• Testimony is a result of choice, not circumstance. In all seasons of my life, testimony has been a conscious choice - and this choice has given everything else in my life meaning. Building a testimony is the beginning of building a happy life. Testimony grows step by step as we invest the effort to exercise faith and hope as active parts of everyday living. Prayer is a major tool to help us gain faith and hope.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Life, Prayer, Exercise

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• The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for world order. Topocosm means "the world order of a particular place." The topocosm is the entire complex of any given locality conceived as a living organism, not just the human community but the total community - the plants, animals and soils of the place. The topocosm is not only the actual and present living community but also that continuous entity of which the present community is but the current manifestation.

  Dolores LaChapelle

  Life, Mean, Animal

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• The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more nearly kind and gentle and generous, pleasanter and stronger than without its vision there is any evidence we are.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Life, Men, Generosity

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• A heavy warning used to be given that pictures are not rigorous; this has never had its bluff called and has permanently frightened its victims into playing for safety.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Safety, Warning, Mathematics

  John Edensor Littlewood, Béla Bollobás (1986). “Littlewood's Miscellany”, p.54, Cambridge University Press

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• When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and Feynman's doors and asked them what they were currently doing. Murray wrote down the partition function for the three-dimensional Ising model and said it would be nice if I could solve it (at least that is how I remember the conversation). Feynman's answer was 'nothing'.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Father, Nice, School

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• Incidentally, when we're faced with a "prove or disprove," we're usually better off trying first to disprove with a counterexample, for two reasons: A disproof is potentially easier (we need just one counterexample); and nitpicking arouses our creative juices. Even if the given assertion is true, our search for a counterexample often leads to a proof, as soon as we see why a counterexample is impossible. Besides, it's healthy to be skeptical.

  Ronald Graham

  Learning, Creative Juices, Two

  Ronald L. Graham, Donald Ervin Knuth, Oren Patashnik (1989). “Concrete mathematics: a foundation for computer science”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• ...methods are more important than facts. The educational value of a problem given to a student depends mostly on how often the thought processes that are invoked to solve it will be helpful in later situations. It has little to do with how useful the answer to the problem may be. On the other hand, a good problem must also motivate the students; they should be interested in seeing the answer. Since students differ so greatly, I cannot expect everyone to like the problems that please me.

  Donald Knuth

  Educational, Learning, Hands

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• Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Causes, Produce

  Leonardo Da Vinci (1938). “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci”

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• Instead of being a student of a (given) field, I would like you to be the field.

  Jacob Barnett

  Fields, Students, Like You

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• The unity of the Bible is one of the wonderful proofs of the inspiration of God's Word- that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God.

  Adrian Rogers

  Inspiration, Unity, Scripture

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2012). “What Every Christian Ought to Know”, p.19, B&H Publishing Group

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• Kingdom Authority is the God-given mandate of Christians to exercise control over the world in the name of Jesus and under His oversight.

  Adrian Rogers

  Christian, Jesus, Exercise

  Adrian Rogers (2002). “The Incredible Power of Kingdom Authority: Getting an Upper Hand on the Underworld”, p.1, B&H Publishing Group

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• Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Time, Genius, Want

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• For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Marriage, Desire

  Myles Munroe (2005). “The Purpose and Power of Love & Marriage”, p.127, Destiny Image Publishers

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• If you can learn to understand people how they think, what they feel, what inspires them, how they're likely to act and react in a given situation- then you can motivate and influence them in a positive way.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, People, Inspire

  John C. Maxwell, Jim Dornan (2013). “How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World”, p.56, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Given another shot at life, I would seize every minute...look at it and really see it... live it...and never give it back. Stop sweating the small stuff. Don't worry about who doesn't like you, who has more, or who's doing what. Instead, let's cherish the relationships we have with those who do love us.

  Erma Bombeck

  Life, Giving, Worry

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• We had a dog who was named Pushinka, who was given to my father by a Soviet official. And we trained that dog to slide down the slide we had in the back of the White House. Sliding the dog down that slide is probably my first memory.

  John F. Kennedy

  Dog, Memories, Father

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• Once you have given up your limited self willingly to the Unlimited, you will rejoice so much in that consciousness that you will not care to be small again.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Self, Care, Consciousness

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• I am always sorry for the Puritan, for he guided his life against desire and against nature. He found what he thought was comfort, for he believed the spirit's safety was in negation, but he has never given the world one minute's joy or produced one symbol of the beautiful order of nature. He sought peace in bondage and his spirit became a prisoner.

  Robert Henri

  Beautiful, Sorry, Order

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• I hit adolescence only to discover my autobiography had already been written; plagiarized, in fact, by a man named J.D. Salinger who, in appropriating to himself my inner mass of pain and confusion, had given me the unlikely name of Holden Caulfield.

  Stephen Metcalf

  Pain, Men, Names

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