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“If you want to be anxious today, pretend you're in control.”
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“Ambition, if it were to be savored, let alone achieved, had to be rooted in possibility.”
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“I'm Elijah. You've heard of me?”
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“Your problem is not that you are too busy; your problem is that you don't own your situation.”
Source : Rory Vaden (2015). “Procrastinate on Purpose: 5 Permissions to Multiply Your Time”, p.15, Penguin
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“From the fact that E is evidence for T and the fact that T entails M, it doesn't follow that E is evidence for M.”
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“There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.”
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“All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.”
Source : James Agate (1942). “Ego 5: Again More of the Autobiography of James Agate”
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“If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.”
Source : Noam Chomsky (2013). “Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky”, p.138, The New Press
