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2c7fe51
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It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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2ecccd0
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no on of intelligence resents the inevitable.
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rationality
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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9f499e8
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The company owner doesn't need to win. The best idea does.
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humility
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John C. Maxwell |
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a93de05
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People tend to become what the most important people in their lives think they will become.
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John C. Maxwell |
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Little progress is better than no progress at all. Success comes in taking many small steps. If you stumble in a small step, it rarely matters. Don't gift wrap the garbage. Let little failures go.
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John C. Maxwell |
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93e3dd6
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Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." --Carl Jung"
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John C. Maxwell |
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5732c46
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She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh.
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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I see you've decided to take my advice after all, Richard." Lady Wendall's amused voice said from somewhere above and behind him. "Marrying your ward is *exactly* the sort of usual scandal I had in mind: I wonder it didn't occur to me before."
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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She probably enjoys cutting up everyone's happiness. Not to mention cutting up other parts of people; given her penchant for poisoning people and turning them into beech trees, I fail to see how she has reached thirty without leaving a trail of bodies behind her.
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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Nothing you will object to," James replied in a soothing tone. I cannot think how he came to imagine that he would know what I might or might not object to."
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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586385e
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I am determined to have the headache Thursday, if I have to hit myself with a rock to do it.
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funny
headache
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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809af8e
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The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'.
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James C. Scott |
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And Stormgren hoped that when Karellen was free to walk once more on Earth, he would one day come to these northern forests, and stand beside the grave of the first man to be his friend.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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Problems seldom go away if they're ignored.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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The world's now placid, featureless, and culturally dead: nothing really new has been created since the Overlords came. The reason's obvious. There's nothing left to struggle for, and there are too many distractions and entertainments. Do you realize that every day something like five hundred hours of radio and TV pour out over the various channels? If you went without sleep and did nothing else, you could follow less than a twentieth of th..
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself.
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simple-plan
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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0790fb3
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I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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The Maya collapsed because they overshot the carrying capacity of their environment. They exhausted their resource base, began to die of starvation and thirst, and fled their cities en masse, leaving them as silent warnings of the perils of ecological hubris.
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Charles C. Mann |
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645fb30
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So what did you think the devil would look like? If he were red with a tail, horns, and cloven hooves, any fool could say no.
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Thomas C. Foster |
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A lousy relationship is never better than no relationship at all.
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Laura C. Schlessinger |
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7bc246c
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Leadership is more disposition than position--influence others from wherever you are.
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John C. Maxwell |
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Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?
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John C. Maxwell |
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309b8cc
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The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.
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John C. Maxwell |
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186f5b4
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Creativity requires a willingness to look stupid.
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John C. Maxwell |
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a329d87
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You cannot kindle a fire in any other heart until it is burning within your own.
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John C. Maxwell |
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8c4aab4
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Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as long as it did not degenerate into mere sloth.
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pleasure
relax
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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8ac226c
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Buckets,' said Cimorene. 'Lots of buckets, and soap, and lemon juice. Where do you keep your buckets, Mendanbar?' 'Around somewhere,' Mendanbar said vaguely.
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humor
mendanbar
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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He wasn't a medical doctor, just educated all the way up as far as you can get.
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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Humility is as good for the soul as it is for the memory
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humility
lessons-learned
memory
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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aa235bd
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Cecy, I do think it is unfair. People in novels are fainting all the time, and I never can, no matter how badly I need to.
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novels
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Patricia C. Wrede |
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I have lived in this tree, in this same hollow," the owl said, "for more years than anyone can remember. But now, when the wind blows hard in winter and rocks the forest, I sit here in the dark, and from deep down in the bole, near the roots, I hear a new sound. It is the sound of strands of wood creaking in the cold and snapping one by one. The limbs are falling; the tree is old, and it is dying. Yet I cannot bring myself, after so many ye..
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owl
resignation
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Robert C. O'Brien |
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My dear Rikki," Karellen retorted, "it's only by not taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess!" Despite himself, Stormgren smiled."
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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Jupiter's fly-by had been carried out with impeccable precision. Like a ball on a cosmic pool table, Discovery had bounced off the moving gravitational field of Jupiter, and had gained momentum from the impact. Without using any fuel, she had increased her speed by several thousand miles an hour. Yet there was no violation of the laws of mechanics; Nature always balances her books, and Jupiter had lost exactly as much momentum as Discovery ..
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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Finally, I would like to assure my many Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim friends that I am sincerely happy that the religion which Chance has given you has contributed to your peace of mind (and often, as Western medical science now reluctantly admits, to your physical well-being). Perhaps it is better to be un-sane and happy, than sane and un-happy. But it is the best of all to be sane and happy. Whether our descendants can a..
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religion-and-science
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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And there still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of Love and Art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and Art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with Love.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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684df1f
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Those wanderers must have looked on Earth, circling safely in the narrow zone between fire and ice, and must have guessed that it was the favourite of the Sun's children.
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science-fiction
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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54e66c9
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Alvin was an explorer, and all explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
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c7e432c
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His argument runs like this: there is no goodness without free will. Without the ability to freely choose-or reject-the good, an individual possesses no control over his own soul, and without that control, there is not possibility of attaining grace. In the language of Christianity, a beliver cannot be saved unless the choice to follow Christ is freely made, unless the option not to follow him genuinely exists. Compelled belief is no belief..
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Thomas C. Foster |
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c88760f
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Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer's alone.
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readers-and-writers
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Thomas C. Foster |
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e875923
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Advice is what we ask for when we already knew the answer but wish we didn't.
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excuse
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John C. Maxwell |
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30288fc
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People with humility don't think less of themselves; they just think of themselves less.
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John C. Maxwell |
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f83eb51
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Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking.
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John C. Maxwell |
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215eb9b
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Great leaders always seem to embody two seemingly disparate qualities. They are both highly visionary and highly practical.
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John C. Maxwell |