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«Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.»
Author: Gary Ryan Blair
| About:
Doing Your Best
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«Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.»
Author: Buddha
| About:
Belief
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«Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.»
Author: Helen Rowland
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common, common sense, consists, falling, imagination, in love, merely, sense
«Common sense is merely the deposit of prejudice laid down in the human mind before the age of 18»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Common sense
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«From people who merely pray we must become people who bless.»
«Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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harmony, in harmony, live in, melodies, melody, merely, say
«A 'NO' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'YES' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
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«A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
avoid, conviction, deepest, from the, merely, please, trouble, uttered, worse, yes
«Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.»
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