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"People who think nothing could go wrong are usually disappointed."

"Selling and teaching demand that you develop your intrapersonal and interpersonal communication skills. You must be able to communicate with yourself as well as with others in a way that makes them buy your offering or benefit from the knowledge you want to impart."

"This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard."


"One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly."

"She'd been fed anti-consumerist bullshit by her parents but didn't understand simple economics."

"An' I got to thinkin', on'y it wasn't thinkin', it was deeper down than thinkin'."

"We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being."

"Is what I did really so much worse than what anybody else does?Is it really so much worse than what you do?Think about it."

"Even if there were pains in Heaven, all who understand would desire them."

"I don't know about black or white magic I just know one type and that is your magic."

"It really should be a criminal offense for an electrician to mount a breaker box on a bedroom wall. Unfortunately, I see the solar industry mounting inverters on bedroom walls also!"

"So, Marasi said, "you traded a dead man's scarf for another dead man's gun. But the gun itself belonged to someone dead, so by the same logic-"Don't try, Waxillium said. "Logic doesn't work on Wayne."I bought a ward against it off a traveling fortune-teller, Wayne explained. "It lets me add two 'n' two and get a pickle."


"A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it."

"Your smile draws people to you as it simultaneously brings out the best in you both."

"Now your boat comes in every day with Cosmic Ordering."

"O may I join the choir invisibleOf those immortal dead who live againIn minds made better by their presence; liveIn pulses stirred to generosity,In deeds of daring rectitude..."


"How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time."


"But like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so."

"Parenting is the greatest pay it forward system on earth. We don't owe our parents anything. We owe our children everything. The same was true for our parents. The same will be true for our children."

"Never focus on achieving your goals, focus on achieving the behaviors and beliefs that will help you achieve your goals."

"The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert."

"An unceasingly grateful life can easily heal from the wounds of hurt and setback. It can also easily shed resentment, hate, and bitterness."

"Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity to illustrate your faith in God."

"The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong."

"Every single human being is neurologically predisposed to be biased in various walks of life. It is biologically impossible to be absolutely free from all biases, nevertheless, the more a person rigorously trains the self to be rational and conscientious, the more that self becomes strong enough to keep the biases in check, never to let them run rampant over the psyche."

"Behavior speaks. If you're chasing them, it means they're running from you. Save your energy."

"When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures."

"Your state of consciousness defines your state of mind and your state of happiness."
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