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The choices we make lead up to actual experiences. It is one thing to decide to climb a mountain. It is quite another to be on top of it.


Herbert A. Simon

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DEBASISH MRIDHA Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."

"I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
EDMUND BURKE How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
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ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
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ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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ANDREW TO A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Don't Just Let it Happen, Make it Happen!
JUAN A. JIMENEZ I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
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KURT VONNEGUT To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t...
CRISTIANO RONALDO I want to be honest, and even if that's scary, I know it's worth it.
EMM GRYNER There’s no need to sharpen your pencils any more. Even the dull ones can make a mark.
ZE FRANK Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c...
GERMANY KENT Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
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NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON People become more ignorant when it comes to religion.
DANIEL MELGAçO We stayed all day long. We closed our eyes and paryed, which we had not doen together in a long time...
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DEBASISH MRIDHA The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL Be an initiator of change. Keep improving... To change is to improve; to become excellent is to keep...
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DEYTH BANGER To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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BEN OAK There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true...
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VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
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BIJOU HUNTER Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
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JEFFREY FRY There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learn...
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LEWIS N. ROE Naturalistic atheism debunks itself. It has no power to explain even some of the most basic principl...
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Make a place to sit down.
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in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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HERBERT A. SIMON The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.
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A. P. HERBERT Other people's babies - / That's my life! / Mother to dozens, / And nobody's wife.
A. P. HERBERT Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, / For mother will be there.
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A. P. HERBERT And when you rub the ball on rump or belly,Remember what it looks like on the telly.
A. P. HERBERT Not huffy or stuffy, nor tiny or tall, / But fluffy, just fluffy, with no brains at all.
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A. A. MILNE Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. MILNE Tiggers don't like honey.
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A. A. MILNE Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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A. A. MILNE One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
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A. A. MILNE Silence is a text easy to misread.
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A. A. MILNE Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing ...
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A. A. MILNE I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
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A. A. HODGE The wind was against them now, and Piglet's ears streamed behind him like banners as he fought his w...
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A. A. HODGE How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
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A. A. MILNE They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - / Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
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A. A. MILNE An Expedition to the North Pole.
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A. A. HODGE Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
A. A. HODGE Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
A. A. MILNE For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
A. A. MILNE How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. MILNE No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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A. A. MILNE There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.
SIMON SINEK Always the journey, never the destination.
SIMON RATTLE The majority of my work is about preparation.
TARYN SIMON I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles intere...
TARYN SIMON My work is drawn to the political but avoids an agenda. There is no inherent critique or support.
TARYN SIMON In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered ...
TARYN SIMON I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answe...
TARYN SIMON With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a...
SAM SIMON I'd rather be nauseous than tired, I think.
SAM SIMON I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do t...
SAM SIMON 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thoug...
SAM SIMON I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
SAM SIMON One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, ...
SAM SIMON The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken ...
SAM SIMON Work made me crazy. I was tough to get along with.
SAM SIMON I don't believe in miracles.
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SAM SIMON A lot of charities spend a million dollars on a fundraiser to make $15,000. It's a social swirl....
SAM SIMON I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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SAM SIMON Veganism is an answer for almost every problem facing the world in terms of hunger and climate chang...
SAM SIMON The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's fun...
SAM SIMON There are certain times you realize you've got too much money. One was when I started getting bi...
SAM SIMON When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.
SAM SIMON Boxing should probably be banned. But until then, I'm a big fan.
SAM SIMON Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused anim...
SAM SIMON No matter when or where, always bring your 'A' game, because you never know when it will ope...
SIMON SINEK I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.
SIMON SINEK A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.
SIMON SINEK Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.
SIMON SINEK A five minute call replaces the time it takes to read and reply to the original email and read and r...
SIMON SINEK People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
SIMON SINEK If I said to most of the people who auditioned, 'Good job, awesome, well done,' it would hav...
SIMON COWELL There is a difference between listening and waiting for your turn to speak.
SIMON SINEK Some people are born good-looking. Some have the gift of gab. And some are lucky enough to be born s...
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SIMON SINEK Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything - for bette...
SIMON SINEK Life was so much simpler in pre-video days when everyone refused invitations because the 'Forsyt...
SIMON HOGGART Learning music is a birthright. And you have to start young.
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SIMON HOGGART He always describes his characters' voices and their physique so brilliantly. As people have sai...
SIMON CALLOW Too many brands treat social media as a one way, broadcast channel, rather than a two-way dialogue t...
SIMON MAINWARING Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.
SIMON SINEK I can't read a computer screen and never use a calculator. It's all in my head and by hand.
SIMON REUBEN I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of read...
MARGE SIMON Most successful American politicians look well-fed on endorsements, campaign contributions and chick...
SIMON HOGGART I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past ...
SIMON HOGGART The leverage and influence social media gives citizens are rapidly spreading into the business world...
SIMON MAINWARING Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson, I thought, 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever w...
SIMON COWELL What do we do after? Build a transfer station? Direct haul? And what will the form be? Contract with...
ALAN SIMON If we fill to capacity we don't have to do a tax or bond to cover the rest.
ALAN SIMON We're taking in less [household] trash and have more capacity. And capacity equals money.
ALAN SIMON It's pretty much a lull in the action. We're looking forward to the next few years.
ALAN SIMON Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergo...
SIMON MAINWARING If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then t...
SIMON RATTLE