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"Instead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification. He will never achieve anything so long as he is surrounded by dissipating temptations."	I Ching
"When clouds form in the skies we know that rain will follow but we must not wait for it. Nothing will be achieved by attempting to interfere with the future before the time is ripe. Patience is needed."	I Ching
"Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."	Confucius
"He who requires urging to do a noble act will never accomplish it."	Kahlil Gibran
"The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self; there remains nothing more for him to accomplish."	Bhagavad Gita
"It is the minority that has stood in the vain of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world."	John B. Gough
"What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world."	John B. Gough
"We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play."	Heraclitus
"Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play."	Heraclitus
"All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened."	Herman Hesse
"You can do what you want to do, accomplish what you want to accomplish, attain any reasonable objective you may have in mind--not all of a sudden, perhaps not in one swift and sweeping act of achievement--but you can do it gradually, day by day and play by play, if you want to do it, if you work to do it, over a sufficiently long period of time."	William E. Holler
"When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language."	James Earl Jones
"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."	Carl Gustav Jung
"Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings."	R. D. Laing
"Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion."	Lao-Tzu
"The Way of Heaven does not compete, And yet it skillfully achieves victory. It does not speak, and yet it skillfully responds to things. It comes to you without your invitation."	Lao-Tzu
"Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible."	Doug Larson
"Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world? Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right? To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this: we lack the mind of Christ."	J. Arthur Lewis
"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives."	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
"I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively."	Golda Meir
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Albert Einstein	Alexis Carrel	Anatole France
Anne Frank	Bernard Mannes Baruch	Bhagavad Gita
Brendan Francis	Bronwyn Davies	Bruce Barton
Bruce Lee	Buonarroti Michelangelo	Carl Gustav Jung
Confucius	Dale Carnegie	Doris Wild Helmering
Doug Larson	Douglas Noel Adams	Dr. Joyce
Dr. Thomas Fuller	Earl Nightingale	Earnie Larsen
Edward Albee	Elbert Hubbard	Eric Butterworth
Ernest Hello	Etty Hilsum	Fran Lebowitz
General Charles De Gaulle	George Ellis	George Herbert Allen
Georg Christopher Lichtenberg	Gerard Hargraves	Golda Meir
Golo Mann	Hans Albrecht Bethe	Harry Gray
Helen Adams Keller	Helen Hayes	Henrik Ibsen
Henry Ford	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Alfred Kissinger
Heraclitus	Herman Hesse	Idi Amin Dada
I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	James Earl Jones
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.	Jan Ashford	Jesse Louis Jackson
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John B. Gough	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Kenneth Galbraith	Josh Billings	J(ean) Paul Getty
J. Arthur Lewis	Kahlil Gibran	Lao-Tzu
Lewis S(amuel) Feuer	Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca	Lloyd Alexander
Lyndon Baines Johnson	Mack R. Douglas	Madame Chiang
Marie Curie	Maurice Chevalier	Menander
Michael Korda	Mignon McLaughlin	M(auritis) C(ornelius) Escher
Napolean Hill	Og Mandino	Oswald Mosley
Pearl Bailey	Pearl Sydenstricker Buck	Peter Fitzgerald
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Reinhold Niebuhr	Rensis Likert
Richard Milhouse Nixon	Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Montgomery
Russell Greene	R. D. Laing	Saint Augustine
Sir Walter Besant	Sophia Loren	Srully D. Blotnick
Stephen R. Covey	Sydney J. Harris	Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Alva Edison	Thomas Arnold Bennett	Ursula K. LeGuin
Victor Hugo	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi	Warren G. Bennis
William James	William Jennings Bryan	William Adams
William E. Holler	William John Bennett	Woody Allen
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