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The habits of a vigorous mind are born in contending with difficulties.


Abigail Adams

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ABIGAIL ADAMS Great necessities call forth great leaders. -Abigail Adams.
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JOHN ADAMS A cheerful mind is a vigorous mind.
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Be careful of relying on the opinion of others, these are the same people that like liver.
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DAVID MCCULLOUGH I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ...
BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power.
SHESH NATH VERNWAL Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fac...
HENRY CLAY Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
ELIZABETH BOWEN Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought
ELIZABETH BOWEN Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.
LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most...
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VERA BRITTAIN Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are...
T. S. ELIOT Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our char...
HENRY HANCOCK People with negative frame of mind take obstacle & difficulties as curse & look for an excuse.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Divorce is born of perverted morals and leads to vicious habits
POPE LEO XIII Interdependent Thinking is a true system view of the world.
PEARL ZHU „Ein Mensch kann niemals Tier werden, er stürzt am Tier vorbei in den Abgrund
MARLEN HAUSHOFER The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
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That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
SENECA If taken in positive frame of mind obstacle,challenges & difficulties develop inner strength & deter...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The problem with Adams,
DAVID MCCULLOUGH In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. The...
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MARYUM AHSAM “Positive Thoughts” are solely born in our Heart than Mind.
ANUJ SOMANY Everyone is born with a different mind and the same heart.
RAHEEL FAROOQ Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA It's not that manufacturers are unduly pessimistic, but they are contending with unprecedented chall...
JOHN ENGLER Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY I'm a playboy trapped in a playmate's body. (Stephanie Adams Interview with Playboy)
STEPHANIE ADAMS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
E.M. FORSTER In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
LIVY Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.
FRANK DELANEY Habits are formed by the repetition of particular acts. They are strengthened by an increase in the ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER Right now with the roster as it exists, they're nowhere near contending. They're not even contending...
GREG ANTHONY the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same...
RICHARD V. ALLEN [W]e who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the sa...
RICHARD ALLEN We who have been born and nurtured on this soil, we, whose habits, manners, and customs are the same...
RICHARD ALLEN Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE To overawe, or intimidate, or, when we cannot persuade with reason, to resist with fortitude, are th...
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BERTRAND RUSSELL A vigorous mind shut out from outer stimuli finds in this circumstance the time to develop leisurely...
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JON RONSON Romans 12:2
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STEVEN PRESSFIELD If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
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J.G. BALLARD The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually wri...
GEORGE SAUNDERS Born too late to explore the world, born too early too explore the universe.
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JAMES ALLEN Successful people are simply those with success habits.
BRIAN TRACY Successful people are simply those with successful habits.
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PHYLLIS BOTTOME All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.
VOLTAIRE All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
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JULIE HENDERSON Habits are the shorthand of behavior
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
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ABIGAIL GEORGE Woman lost (skin deep) like a damn fine thread in the fire
Woman of the world caught up in your...
ABIGAIL GEORGE I don't want your duty kisses. They taste bitter
ABIGAIL REYNOLDS My phone is always in front of me, 24/7.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN A lot of the time I'm working with people who are older than me.
ABIGAIL BRESLIN Forget career, forget the future, forget existential worries, just get yourselves a couple of dogs, ...
ABIGAIL THOMAS Someone dehumanises you by violating your child and every human thought you had for them is broken, ...
ABIGAIL TARTTELIN I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditi...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN I've moved around so much my whole life, and I've gotten so used to being the Other in situa...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN One of my favorite albums in the world is Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska.' Each song has ...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
ABIGAIL WASHBURN I played piano and was always in the choir. I tried to play flute because all the pretty girls playe...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN Passion can’t be planned; only felt.
ABIGAIL BIDDINGER Doctors know nothing. Well. That's kind of unfair. Let's just say the world is unpredictable. Scienc...
ABIGAIL TARTTELIN True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married.
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. -Abigail Van Bure...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he...
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