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• To the youngsters of today, I say "Believe in the future, the world is getting better; there still is plenty of opportunity." Why, would you believe it, when I was a kid I thought it was already too late for me to make good at anything.

  Walt Disney

  Believe, Kids, Opportunity

  Walt Disney, Kathy Merlock Jackson (2006). “Walt Disney: Conversations”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Scarcity, Waste, Resources

  Thomas Love Peacock (1875). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc”, p.208

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• There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hands, Calling, Soap

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.69, Whitaker House

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• Grow angry slowly - there's plenty of time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Grows, Angry

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• The shocking truth about prosperity is that it is shockingly right instead of shockingly wrong for you to be prosperous. Please note that the word 'rich' means having an abundance of good or living a fuller, more satisfying life. Indeed, you are prosperous to the degree that you are experiencing peace, health, happiness and plenty in your world. There are honorable methods that can carry you quickly toward that goal. It is easier to accomplish than you may now think. That, too, is the shocking truth about prosperity.

  Catherine Ponder

  Mean, Thinking, Goal

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• Time-Use it or lose it. Time, like a snowflake, disappears while we're trying to decide what to do with it. The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time.

  Leo Kennedy

  Use It Or Lose It, Trying, Way

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• I don't think there's a shortage of remarkable ideas. I think your business has plenty of great opportunities to do great things. Nope, what's missing isn't the ideas. It's the will to execute them.

  Seth Godin

  Opportunity, Thinking, Ideas

  Seth Godin (2009). “Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable”, p.32, Penguin

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• I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

  Warren Buffett

  Mistake, Games, Overcoming

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• If you get the best people on your team, you've got plenty of time to do the things you like to do and can add more value to.

  Jack Welch

  Team, People, Add

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• Now, the past has plenty to teach us, but I don't think it should be allowed to detain us against our will.

  Pat Condell

  Past, Thinking, Growth

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• Any subject is suitable provided it is of sufficient interest, but the design must be very carefully considered, and plenty of time and thought given to its construction.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Design, Construction, Given

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• It's seldom you make a great picture. you have to milk the cow quite a lot to get plenty of milk to make a little cheese.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.

  Aesop

  Needs, May, Today

  Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• He who sounds his own trumpet will soon find plenty to laugh at him.

  Publilius Syrus

  Laughing, Sound, Trumpets

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• Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

  Owen Feltham

  Charity, Courtesy, Alms

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• Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.

  Barack Obama

  Patience, Perseverance, Real

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• I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Thinking, Ideas

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

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• There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Graves, Time To Sleep

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• There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It's that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive....it's that part of an imbecile that punishes and vilifies and makes war gladly.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hate, War, Fighting

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• I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Sick, Faithful, Faults

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.68, Hamilton Books

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• If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally upwards. And it doesn't happen by laws of nature. And it doesn't happen by social laws. . . . It happens as a result of hard work by dedicated people who are willing to look at problems honestly, to look at them without illusions, and to go to work chipping away at them, with no guarantee of success — in fact, with a need for a rather high tolerance for failure along the way, and plenty of disappointments.

  Noam Chomsky

  Disappointment, Hard Work, Law

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• TODD: The history of the world, my love -- LOVETT: Save a lot of graves, Do a lot of relatives favors! TODD: Is those below serving those up above! LOVETT: Ev'rybody shaves, So there should be plenty of flavors! TODD: How gratifying for once to know BOTH: That those above will serve those down below!

  Stephen Sondheim

  Flavor, World, Favors

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• Not really hungry." "She’ll eat." Pritkin said curtly. "I said —" "If you starve to death it would damage my professional reputation." "I eat plenty." "The same does not apply should I strangle you in understandable irritation, however." "I’ll have a sandwich," I told Nick. "No meat.

  Karen Chance

  Irritation, Meat, Doe

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• The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.

  Jean Webster

  World, Way, Kind

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.78, Jester House Publishing

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• Poor Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's version of a stay in the stocks, in you go, plenty of misery guaranteed and what you got out of it besides bitterness and heartbreak nobody knows. Perhaps some knowledge of self and women.

  Junot Diaz

  Self, Vortex, Oscars

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.41, Faber & Faber

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