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72 Cards in this Set
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Instead of narrowing your world and simplifying your soul, you will at last take the whole world into your soul, cost what it may, before you are through and come to rest.
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To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail
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"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people"
- George Bernard Shaw |
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The task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees.
- Shopenhauer |
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Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.
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"I would have written a shorter letter but I didn't have the time".
- Pascal |
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Common sense is not so common.
- Voltaire |
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill |
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Focus on the Present, Fail Forward, Think Big, Do What You Love, Stay Positive, Passion is Power, Experience is Priceless
- Donald Trump |
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If you are not appearing, you are disappearing
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You not ready to live, but you are ready to die?
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Guy Kawasaki says that being a legend shouldn't be your goal in life, "What you should do is create a great product or service…the goal is to change the world...if you do that, maybe you’ll be a legend."
- Improve life quality - Right a wrong in the world - Prevent the end of somethisng good |
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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
- Mahatma Gandhi |
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Predicting the future is far more valuable than explaining the past.
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It's better to hated for what you are, to be loved for what you're not.
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Kurt Cobain
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"Брачните окови се толку тешки, што нив мора да ги носат двајца, а понекогаш и тројца".
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Александар Дима
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"Пријателе, ова не е време кога треба да правам непријатели" -
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Волтер, кога на посмртната постела му побарале да се откаже од Сатаната
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Животот не се мери со бројот на земените здивови, туку со оние моменти кои ни го одземаат здивот.
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- Bob Moorehead
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't.
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Mark Twain
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
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Mark Twain
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“The biggest risk is not taking any risk…In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.”
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Mark Zukerberg
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"Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
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Steve Jobs
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After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.
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Unknown
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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Niels Bohr (1885 - 1962)
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
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Mark Twain
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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Sir Ralph Richardson (1902 - 1983)
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
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Norman Douglas
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The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
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Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
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Frank Leahy
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Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.
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William James (1842 - 1910)
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As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use.
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William James (1842 - 1910)
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There are too many people, and too few human beings.
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Robert Zend
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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
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George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
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Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
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Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
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Rick Cook
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The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
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Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
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Art is science made clear.
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Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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None are so busy as the fool and knave.
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John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.
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Gore Vidal (1925 - )
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
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Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Anything too stupid to be said is sung.
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Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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Dr. Seuss (1904 - 1991)
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If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
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Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
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Mark B. Cohen
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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
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Peter McWilliams
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In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.
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John Lilly
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I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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United we stand, divided we fall.
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Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC)
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It is better to live rich than to die rich.
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Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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The best innovators are learners, not knowers.
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Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.
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Jimmy Lyons
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"'Think in the morning, act in the noon, read in the evening, and sleep at night.'
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William Blake
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