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“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”
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“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Source : Attributed in "Forbes", Volume 102, 1968.
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“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
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“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”
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“Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.”
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“I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.”
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“The good things that happen to us were meant to happen, and the bad things that happen are lessons meant to teach us to be better.”
Source : Adriana Trigiani (2003). “Lucia, Lucia: A Novel”, p.142, Random House
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“Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.”
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“I got involved in athletics during physical education lessons at school.”
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“We can, after all, learn much from lessons we did not sign up for.”
Source : Alexander Jablokov (1994). “The Breath of Suspension”, Arkham House Pub
