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«If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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«I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.»
Author: Beryl Pfizer
| About:
Writing
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«If you spend more time asking appropriate questions rather than giving answers or opinions, your listening skills will increase»
Author: Brian Koslow
| About:
Listening
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«I don't think it is so much the actual bath that most cats dislike; I think it's the fact that they have to spend a good part of the day putting their hair back in place.»
«Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don?t wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it?s at work or with your family.»
Author: Earl Nightingale
| About:
Happiness
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«Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.»
«Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.»
«Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire»
«Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.»
Author: Blaise Pascal
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Physicist)
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«It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.»
Author: Buddha
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a hundred, beginnings, birth, contemplated, contemplating, Death of, endings, hundred, Hundred Days, one day, spend
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