Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.
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The seething racial resentment in the Third World against the West — decades after independence and trillions in foreign aid — should cause second thoughts about opening our borders to mass immigration from that world. Not everyone coming here brings in his heart the passionate attachment to America we attribute to the peoples of Ellis Island.
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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
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I want to prove the naysayers wrong. They're everywhere. And to be honest with you, they're all I see, and they're what motivates me.
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If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
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My brother starting earning early in life. I stopped taking money from my parents, and my brother would give me the pocket money.
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The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It's scary.
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Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
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I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.
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I work at my life and I cultivate myself and don't spend six hours in a gym. Some people would say I should but why?
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There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves.
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Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.
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Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
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In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.
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Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes. Not through mere perversity do men run after it.
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Keep asking yourself, 'What kind of a company would my company be if everyone in it was just like me?'
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We are wont to see friendship solely as a phenomenon of intimacy in which the friends open their hearts to each other unmolested by the world and its demands...Thus it is hard for us to understand the political relevance of friendship...But for the Greeks the essence of friendship consisted in discourse...The converse (in contrast to the intimate talk in which individuals speak about themselves), permeated though it may be by pleasure in the friend’s presence, is concerned with the common world.
