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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

— Dale Carnegie How To Stop Worrying and Start Living (1948)

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Many people get a sense of savage satisfaction out of denouncing those who are better educated than they are or more successful.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936)

The average person is more interested in their own name than in all the other names in the world put together.

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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

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You can make more friends in two months by being interested in them, than in two years by making them interested in you.

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Thomas Jefferson

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

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