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The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

—Roseanne Barr

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Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

—Laurence J. Peter

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He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

—Confucius

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If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

—Margaret Thatcher

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I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.

—Anna Quindlen

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Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

—Epictetus

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A great preservative against angry and mutinous thoughts, and all impatience and quarreling, is to have some great business and interest in your mind, which, like a sponge shall suck up your attention and keep you from brooding over what displeases you.

—Joseph Rickaby

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Friends are born, not made.

—Henry Adams

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I used to think of all the billions of people in the world, and of all those people, how was I going to meet the right ones? The right ones to be my friends, the right one to be my husband. Now I just believe you meet the people you're supposed to meet.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

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As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.

—Bill Hicks

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Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

—Albert Einstein

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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

—Thomas Jefferson

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Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

—Jawaharlal Nehru

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To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

—Margaret Fairless Barber

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