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• Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Evil, Deeds, Possibility

  Orison Swett Marden (1896). “Pushing to the Front: Or Success Under Difficulties, a Book of Inspiration and Encouragement to All who are Struggling for Self-elevation Along the Paths of Knowledge and of Duty”

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• Easy is right. Begin right and you are easy. . . . Easy is right means natural is right, effortlessness is right, egolessness is right.

  Rajneesh

  Mean, Easy, Natural

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• The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.

  T. S. Eliot

  Lonely, People, Laughing

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• If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick

  Ben Jonson

  Sick, Neurosis, Illness

  Ben Jonson (1999). “Five Plays”, p.78, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

  Herbert Turnbull

  Atoms, Mathematics, Fingers

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• I feel really good in the teacher role.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Teacher, Roles, Feels

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• Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

  Lisa Alther

  Inspirational, Time, Use

  Lisa Alther (2010). “Kinflicks”, p.304, Open Road Media

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• If you have no conditions you can enjoy life infinitely. If you have conditions, because of them you become incapable.

  Rajneesh

  Enjoy Life, Incapable, Conditions

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• I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

  Edward Carpenter

  Eye, Animal, Soul

  Edward Carpenter, Tony Brown (1990). “Edward Carpenter and Late Victorian Radicalism”, p.40, Psychology Press

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• And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

  Thomas Moore

  Nature, Flower, Heart

  Thomas Moore (1845). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Etc”, p.174

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• Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.

  Rajneesh

  Selfish, Love You, Love Yourself

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• So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue can't be divided like that. It isn't a choice between children and animals. It's our duty to care for both. Kindness is the important thing. Kids and animals are our responsibility.

  Minnie Pearl

  Children, Kindness, Kids

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• When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sarcastic, War, Sarcasm

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• Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Inspirational, Wise, Learning

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• No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.

  James Burgh

  Gun, People, Second Amendment

  James Burgh (2009). “Political Disquisitions”, p.390, Applewood Books

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• In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.

  Christian Slater

  Hard Work, Good Times, Good Christian

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

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• The ruling class doesn't care about public safety. Having made it very difficult for States and localities to police themselves, having left ordinary citizens with no choice but to protect themselves as best they can, they now try to take our guns away. In fact they blame us and our guns for crime. This is so wrong that it cannot be an honest mistake.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Mistake, Gun, Class

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• One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

  Loren Eiseley

  Eye, Animal, Reflection

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.24, Library of America

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• Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.

  Moliere

  Reform, Literature, World

  "The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover". Comedy by Moliere, 1666.

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• Resolution is struggle. Resolution is ego. Resolution is saying, "I cannot live spontaneously. ".

  Rajneesh

  Struggle, Ego, Resolution

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• That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

  Paul Tournier

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  Paul Tournier (1957). “The Meaning of Persons”

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• While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Knowledge, Information, Orderly

  "Gresham's Law: Knowledge or Information?". Daniel J. Boorstin's remarks at the White House conference on library and information services in Washington, D.C., November 19, 1979.

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• Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.

  Will Cuppy

  Spring, Humor, Hay Fever

  Letter to Max Eastman, 1936.

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• Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not.

  Tea Leoni

  Feel Good, Acting, Stuff

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

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• I carry around a notebook that is equal parts day planner and journal. Every morning, I check to see what the agenda for the day is, and if there isn't a plan, I make one. I strive to fill the rest of the page with miscellaneous thoughts and ideas and go back through and fill sparse pages as well. If I start skipping days, I know I'm off course and need to take a step back and ground my life.

  Kit Williamson

  Notebook, Morning, Ideas

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