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• I mean that what makes me a professional, but the market itself has been fabulous during this whole period and I've got to give the market credit before I give myself credit.

  Jim Cramer

  Giving, Credit, Fabulous

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• What am I grateful for? Aside from my own great life, you mean? I'm just grateful that my wife, and daughter, and dogs are all healthy.

  Richard Belzer

  Thanksgiving, Daughter, Dog

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• Rather than concede to the state of Missouri for one single instant the right to dictate to my government in any matter however unimportant, I would see you, and you, and you, and you, and every man, woman and child in the state, dead and buried. This means war.

  Nathaniel Lyon

  Children, War, Men

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• Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.

  Billie Jean King

  Play, Focus, Tennis

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• The potential elite runner must realize that hard means hard, easy means easy and they must patiently seek out what combinations work for them. They have to learn to be persistent and patient with their training and racing.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, Perseverance, Persistence

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• This extremely shocking and utterly revolutionary call is the essence of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus: we are not called to simply believe certain points or observe certain practices, but ultimately to cling to the person of Christ as life itself.

  David Platt

  Jesus, Believe, Essence

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.54, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold, a nimble, a restless mind: a thousand difficulties must be contemn'd with which a mean heart would be broken: many attempts must be made to no purpose: much Treasure must sometimes be scatter'd without any return: much violence, and vigour of thoughts must attend it: some irregularities, and excesses must be granted it, that would hardly be pardon'd by the severe Rules of Prudence.

  Thomas Sprat

  Heart, Science, Restless Mind

  Thomas Sprat (1722). “The History of the Royal Society of London: For the Improving of Natural Knowledge”, p.392

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• Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.

  Tim Ferriss

  Motivational, Cutting, Perception

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• The first step to achieving your goal, is to take a moment to respect your goal. Know what it means to you to achieve it.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Motivational, Goal, Inspire

  Twitter post from Dec 7, 2012

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• It is a sad moment when the first phlox appears. It is the amber light indicating the end of the great burst of early summer and suggesting that we must now start looking forward to autumn. Not that I have any objection to autumn as a season, full of its own beauty; but I just cannot bear to see another summer go, and I recoil from what the first hint of autumn means.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Summer, Autumn, Light

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• By means of trees, wildlife could be conserved, pollution decreased, and the beauty of our landscapes enhanced. This is the way, or at least one of the ways, to spiritual, moral, and cultural regeneration.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Spiritual, Tree, Landscape

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• I do not prize the word cheap. It is not a word of inspiration. It is the badge of poverty, the signal of distress. Cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country.

  William McKinley

  Country, Money, Inspiration

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• He is a wise man who seeks by every legitimate means to make all the money he can honestly, for money can do so many worthwhile things in this world, not merely for one's self but for others. But he is an unmitigated fool who imagines for a moment that it is more important to make the money than to make it honestly. One of the advantages of possessing money is that it facilitates one's independence and mental attitude. The man head over heels in debt is more slave than independent.

  B. C. Forbes

  Wise, Money, Attitude

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• The power of a man is his present means to obtain some future apparent good.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Men, Goodness

  Leviathan pt. 1, ch. 10 (1651)

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• Having the best product means nothing if the people won't buy it.

  Donald A. Norman

  Business, People, Products

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• The Devil hinders me. You know I say
  Just what I think, and nothing more nor less,
  And, when I pray, my heart is in my prayer.
  I cannot say one thing and mean another.
  If I can't pray, I will not make believe!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Thinking, Sincerity, Knows

  "Selected Poems".

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• Believers talk about trusting in the Lord with their whole heart and refusing to lean on thier own understanding, but no one really knows what that means until circumstances cast them headfirst into a dark and painful place. If we give ourselves fully to God in those moments, we will obtain keepsakes of Him to treasure now and forever.

  David Jeremiah

  Faith, Christian, Heart

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• The Benson and Hedges Cup was won by McEnroe ... he was as charming as always, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread.

  Clive James

  Tennis, Bread, Cups

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• To beat Federer 3 times does not mean anything he is a genius whose hair does not even move when he plays.

  Guillermo Canas

  Moving, Hair, Play

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• When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician, a degree of energy is required to make it, and I'm not sure that it is always aggressive, but when you have a great deal of energy it can appear to be more aggressive than it is. In fact, I mean you can talk about a waterfall being aggressive, but in fact it is just a very powerful forward movement of energy, and although I think sometimes my engine house is a kind of anger.

  Simon McBurney

  Powerful, Thinking, House

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• A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories

  George Eliot

  Two, Dubious, Flags

  George Eliot “Daniel Deronda - Volume 2 of 2”, Lulu.com

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• Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

  Victor Hugo

  Becoming One, Genius, Available

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• In Judaism faith means wrestling with God as Jacob once wrestled with an angel.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Wrestling, Angel, Jacob

  "The Case for God?". BBC Documentary, September 06, 2010.

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• It's sort of like a mockery in a way of reality because they think everything is smiles and sweetness and flowers when there is something bitter to taste. And to pretend there isn't is foolish. I mean the ones that wonder around and know, at the same time, and yet wear flowers, and they deserve to wear flowers. And they've earned their smile...you can tell by people's eyes.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Flower, Eye, Reality

  "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

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• But I tell you one thing, I don't want to be immortal if it mean living forever, cause then everybody else just die and get old in front of you while you stay the same, and that's just sad.

  Rebecca Skloot

  Forever, Want, Immortal Life

  Rebecca Skloot (2010). “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”, p.310, Broadway Books

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