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One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

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• The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Time
  • Brothers
  • Favorites

• At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • College
  • Passion
  • Risk

• Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Chance
  • Wise
  • Luck

• Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Years
  • Order
  • Stock

• It is God who gives us the opportunity to win and to get victories.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Win

• Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.

  

  Zak Orth
  • Born
  • Name
  • Short

• If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Writing
  • You
  • Rock

• Most ballets are more interesting than most men.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Men
  • Interesting
  • Most

• Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • God
  • Family
  • Friends

• 'Dark Gods,' T. E. D. Klein's book of four novellas, felt like a godsend - even if it came from a deformed god, one that lurked beneath our sidewalks.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • God
  • Book
  • Dark

• The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Year
  • Mystery
  • Damn

• I totally regret as a German what happened at this point of history. But when people ask me are you, as a German, feel responsible for the Holocaust? No, because I'm born 1965 and it would be completely un-logical to say I'm responsible, but as a country we are responsible.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • People
  • Country
  • History

• Although we all make mistakes in life, the problems occur when we try to hide our mistakes, to cover them up rather than to learn from them and allow other people to learn from them.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four-hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may erupt.

  

  Eldridge Cleaver
  • May
  • Squad

• Persuasion is often more effectual than force.

  

  Aesop

• Indeed, proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear.

  

  Claude Bernard

• It is only by the amplification of titles that you can often touch and satisfy the imagination of nations; and that is an element which Governments must not despise.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Imagination

• I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • People
  • Writing

• All my life, I've felt people are looking at me. So, when I became known, it was like, 'I'm not imagining this any more. People genuinely are staring at me. Oh, Christ, now they're coming over!'

  

  Martin Freeman
  • People
  • Life

• Love is not all: it is not meat nor drinkNor slumber nor a roof against the rain;Nor yet a floating spar to men that sinkAnd rise and sink and rise and sink again;Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;Yet many a man is making friends with deathEven as I speak, for lack of love alone.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Men
  • Friends
  • Alone

• I was small but slow as a college tackle.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • Small
  • College
  • Slow

• There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Black

• I live in the East Village, and occasionally people will recognize me there. When I'm in Williamsburg, I always get recognized. Midtown, not so much.

  

  Andrew Rannells
  • People
  • Live

• One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Control
  • Thoughts