Orison Swett Marden Quotes
When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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If you've got information about an opponent running against you, wouldn't you want that information - to vet it, to see if it's real information, and to use it accordingly?
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.
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It's just a theory really, but I have always thought that your physical surroundings can shape your voice and personality.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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For if God is a title of the highest power, He must be incorruptible, perfect, incapable of suffering, and subject to no other being; therefore they are not gods whom necessity compels to obey the one greatest God.
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Milosevic will never stop, because he is fighting for personal power in Serbia. The only way to stop him is cutting the functioning of his war machine. He is spending $1.7 million a day on his war machine in Kosovo.
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Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
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The more you build your life on principle and less on personality - yours or others - the straighter will be your course.
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Motherhood is an especially powerful experience because it involves learning under high-stakes conditions, which is just the sort of learning that drives change in the brain.
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The oceans are more or less in disrepair. Long Beach really is making an effort to acknowledge this, and that's a great place to start. I'm trying to spread at least the knowledge that it's never too early to take care of our oceans and our environment.
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My dad died 11 years ago, I don't see much of my brothers, and I rarely speak to my mum. I don't hold a grudge, but being separated in those early years clearly had an impact. Our relationship didn't develop as it ought to.
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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
