"Focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.Focus on your character, not your reputation.Focus on your blessings, not your misfortunes."

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“Until you change how you get things done, you'll never know what works best.”

“Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.”

“Remember that things are not always as they appear to be… Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities.”

“Finding the lesson behind every adversity will be the one important thing that helps get you through it.”

“Be the kind of person who dares to face life's challenges and overcome them rather than dodging them.”

“Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.”

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"The world of our own making has become so complicated that we must turn to the world of the born to understand how to manage it."

— Kevin Kelly (editor)

Business1952

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"If you care about someone enough, you’ll always be there for them no matter what."

— Roy T. Bennett

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"The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the vill…"

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Politics1805–1859

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"Sincerity! All my life I have been reproved for attempting to use this word, and rightly so because the very notion of sincerity implies a consciousness of one’s self as a circumscribed entity, a ‘sin…"

— Herbert Read

Literature1893–1968

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