Og Mandino Quotes
And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.
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Lanai at one time grew 98% of the world's pineapples. But the world's pineapples are now grown in two places, Costa Rica and Panama, because no one wants to spend $45 for a pineapple from the United States.
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While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
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A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
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In a perfect world, there would be freedom of religion and freedom for all religions to exercise their religion everywhere.
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I really miss the Australian lifestyle and being around my friends and family.
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I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.
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I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
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We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.
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I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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Domestic house cats kill more fish than all the world's seals put together.
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Donald Trump has had political success positioning himself as a 'law-and-order' candidate.
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I like the club. It looks nice with all the tables out. They were freaking out, the Gilly's people.
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The lonely reality of the truth-that the most important person in your life suddenly ceased to exist. Which on a bad day meant maybe she had never existed at all. And on a good day, there was the other fear. That even if you were a hundred percent sure she had been there, maybe you were the only one who cared or remembered.
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And even if you have failed at all else in the eyes of the world, if you have a loving family, you are a success.
