Category: writer
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When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.
Mark Twain
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can’t ‘rationally’ transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.
Marianne Williamson
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TiVo and other digital recording devices have confounded advertisers. The ad industry sees the technology as a threat to their product.
Simon Sinek
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Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.
George Orwell
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In my relationship with God, I’ve learned that if I follow a ‘formula’ for how I spend my time with Him, then I’m just accomplishing a checklist of things I feel obligated to do to please Him. This makes my spiritual life more about doing what I need to do to fulfill an obligation than something meaningful.
Joyce Meyer
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Marriage is the death of hope.
Woody Allen
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No matter how many or how few people you have reporting to you, you must remember that as you climb higher in the ranks, your words will be taken as commands even if you’re just thinking out loud.
Simon Sinek
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson
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Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
George Orwell