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“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.”
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“You can't achieve anything without getting in someone's way. You can't be detached and effective.”
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“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”
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“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.”
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“All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.”
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“I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.”
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“Eat only when you are hungry. Drink only when you're thirsty. Sleep only when you're tired. Screw only when you're horny.”
Source : Al Neuharth (1992). “Confessions of an S.O.B.”, Signet
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“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.”
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“I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.†But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,†according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.”
Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
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“I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.”
