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“It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.”
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“Our ideals are our better selves.”
Source : Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”
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“TOPER. Yesterday I carried to wait on a Relation of ours that has a Parrot, and whilst I was discoursing about some private Business, she converted the Bird, and now it talks of nothing but the Light of the Spirit, and the Inward man.”
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“By our attitude, we decide to read, or not to read. By our attitude, we decide to try or give up. By our attitude, we blame ourselves for our failure, or we blame others. Our attitude determines whether we tell the truth or lie, act or procrastinate, advance or recede, and by our own attitude we and we alone actually decide whether to succeed or fail.”
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“We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.”
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“From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'”
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“To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe”
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“[perfectionism leads to] a tendency to apologize preemptively for one's efforts, knowing from experience that there's sure to be something wrong with them.”
Source : William Westney (2003). “The Perfect Wrong Note: Learning to Trust Your Musical Self”
