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Better Counsel comes overnight.


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A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.



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Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.



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If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.



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Every child has the capacity to be everything.



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Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.



What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.



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Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.



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You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.



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We can compare classical chess and rapid chess with theatre and cinema - some actors don't like the latter and prefer to work in the theatre.



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I have a lot of good days I'd like to relive.



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Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.



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Pessimism is a losing strategy. Leadership demands both confidence and optimism in abundance.




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