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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Just because you can't act EVERYWHERE doesn't mean you don't act ANYWHERE. – Madeleine Albright

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Walter IsaacsonAmerican Sketches: Great Leaders

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those w...

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The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effectin...

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Our minds are susceptible to the influence of external voices telling us what we require to be satis...

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...they are dazzled by all the money that they are being offered. That is what money does, Mma Ramot...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Limpopo Academy of Private Detection

The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accompli...

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It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their prioriti...

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Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Some experimenters have reported that an angry face “pops out” of a crowd of happy faces, but a sing...

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Nothing in life is as important as you think it is when you are thinking about it.

The often-used phrase “pay attention” is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you ...

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Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energ...

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There are so many more important things to worry about than how you're perceived by strangers.

The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can on...

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Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, t...

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Even if they try to kill you, you develop the inner conviction that thereare some things so precious...

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I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and ...

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Her eyes are shockingly black - shocking not because black eyes are particularly rare, but because s...

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They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your st...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

It had come from one of two corgis who were even now slamming their preposterous bodies into each ot...

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We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life...

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Peggy NoonanPatriotic Grace: What It Is and Why We Need It Now

You can't talk about fucking in America, people say you're dirty. But if you talk about killing some...

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The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like sch...

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It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fail...

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