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#1

“Some people are born with a fire inside them. The will to succeed. It isn’t a learned behavior. It’s just some unknown biological factor that makes them try harder.”
― J.A. Konrath, The List

tags: greatness, quotable

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#2

“As W.C. Fields once said: a thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.”
― Steven D. Levitt, Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

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#3

“It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson

tags: horses, leadership, war

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#4

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
― George Carlin

tags: humor, insanity, lies, lying, self-indulgence, truth

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#5

“People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

tags: humor, insanity

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#6

“It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I can kill.”
― Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls

tags: fight, friends, friendship, kill, loyalty, strength

3013 likes

#7

“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."

(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
― Madeleine Albright

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#8

“You gain power by pretending to be weak.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Choke

tags: ckoke, power, weak

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#10

“...you have been fraternizing with warewolves overmuch! Military men can be terribly bad for one's verbal concatenation!”
― Gail Carriger, Heartless

tags: men, military, speech, warewolves

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#11

“The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting with the combat units of the enemy in the war of 5 June 1967 was intended more as propaganda than anything real or substantial. It was calculated to intensify and compound the adverse psychological effects of the war by exploiting the backward outlook of large sections of Arab society and their role in the community. The intention was to achieve adverse psychological effects by saying to Arabs that they were defeated, in 1967, by women.”
― Saddam Hussein, The Revolution and Woman in Iraq

tags: arab, arab-women, army, military, role-of-women-in-islam, women, zionist

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#12

“Is killing a known terrorist wrong? I ask this, did the terrorist allow any of his victims quarter? No, then allow him no quarter, and hoist the black flag.”
― T.R. Wallace

tags: bin-laden, military, polictical, terrorism, war

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#13

“Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.”
― Horace Mann

tags: conflict, growth, intelligence, knowledge, opinion

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#14

“Always be smarter than the people who hire you.”
― Lena Horne

tags: bosses, employers, employment, intelligence, jobs, work

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#15

“Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking. ”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: employment, job, work

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#16

“He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - not so much on account of any natural quality of discretion as because he simply could never think of any questions to ask.
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On the strength of which he had guaranteed himself regular employment for as long as he cared to live.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: employment, humor

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#17

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

32156 likes

#18

“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore.”
― Lady Gaga

tags: love, romance, work

9677 likes

#19

“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: inspirational, life, work

2364 likes

#20

“Work without love is slavery.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: faith, love, work

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#21

“Don't mistake activity with achievement.”
― John Wooden

tags: achievement, acquirement, act, action, activity, attainment, completion, conclusion, deed, doing, energy, enterprise, exertion, feat, fulfullment, labor, occurence, perfection, performance, production, service, success, undertaking, venture, work

628 likes

#22

“I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either. ”
― Brian Andreas

tags: coffee, humor, story-people, work

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#23

“I don't want to work a 9-5 job, because 20 hours a day is just too much.”
― Jarod Kintz, There are Two Typos of People in This World: Those Who Can Edit and Those Who Can't

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#24

“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: motivational, purpose, work

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#25

“I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist.”
― John Keats

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#26

“You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: affection, communication, heartwarming, human-connections, human-nature, humanism, humanity, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-love, inspirational-quotes, relationships

8578 likes

#27

“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: goodbye, inspiration, love

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#28

“We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.”
― Herman Melville

tags: connection

1167 likes

#29

“When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

tags: breathe, connection, look-up-and-enjoy-life, perspective, relationship, relax

901 likes

#30

“It's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

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#31

“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I'm gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”
― Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

tags: destiny, existence

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