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"I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there."
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William Wiley
"I'm just a landscape painter. I look out the window and I see what's going on, and I paint it. While I'm painting it, I also write thoughts about what I see going on out there."
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"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Our life is what our thoughts make it."
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"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
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"Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality."
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Germany Kent
"Nobody but you have to believe in your dreams to make them a reality."
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"I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die."
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William Wiley
"I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die."
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"My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all."
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Winfield Scott Hancock
"My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all."
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"Our thoughts is what our life make it."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Our thoughts is what our life make it."
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"Think before you click. If people do not know you personally and if they cannot see you as you type, what you post online can be taken out of context if you are not careful in the way your message is delivered."
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Germany Kent
"Think before you click. If people do not know you personally and if they cannot see you as you type, what you post online can be taken out of context if you are not careful in the way your message is delivered."
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"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
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"If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt."
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Marcus Aurelius
"If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt."
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"Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle."
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"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others."
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Marcus Aurelius
"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others."
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"All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral-both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere."
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Marcus Aurelius
"All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike. All is ephemeral-both memory and the object of memory. The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you will be no one, and nowhere."
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
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Marcus Aurelius
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
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"How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig."
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Marcus Aurelius
"How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird or pig."
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"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."
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Marcus Aurelius
"How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."
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"Do not be ashamed of help."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Do not be ashamed of help."
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"It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another."
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Marcus Aurelius
"It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another."
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"Think about every good thing in your life right now. Free yourself of worrying. Let go of the anxiety, breathe. Stay positive, all is well."
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Germany Kent
"Think about every good thing in your life right now. Free yourself of worrying. Let go of the anxiety, breathe. Stay positive, all is well."
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"Anger cannot be dishonest."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Anger cannot be dishonest."
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"Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!"
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George Rogers Clark
"Damn the sword! When Virginia wanted a sword, I gave her one. Now she sends me a toy! I require bread!"
Now,
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"During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it."
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J. G. Stedman
"During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it."
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"If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air."
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William Halsey
"If you want to go anywhere in modern war, in the air, on the sea, on the land, you must have command of the air."
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"Your life is what your thoughts make it."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Your life is what your thoughts make it."
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"I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education."
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William Wiley
"I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education."
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"I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels."
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Abraham Whipple
"I have never received a Farthing of Prize Money either for Artillery Ammunition or Vessels."
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"There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it."
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Arleigh Burke
"There never is a convenient place to fight a war when the other man starts it."
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"When eating an elephant take one bite at a time."
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Creighton Abrams
"When eating an elephant take one bite at a time."
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"And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances."
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Marcus Aurelius
"And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances."
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"What pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies ... the real man."
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Marcus Aurelius
"What pulls the strings is the force hidden within there lies ... the real man."
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"That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not"."
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Marcus Aurelius
"That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not"."
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"Let them know a real man who lives as he was meant to live."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Let them know a real man who lives as he was meant to live."
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"The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected."
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William Hall
"The sexes were made for each other, and only in the wise and loving union of the two is the fullness of health and duty and happiness to be expected."
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"Time is like a river of fleeting events and its current is strong as soon as something comes into sight it is swept past us and something else takes its place and that too will be swept away."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Time is like a river of fleeting events and its current is strong as soon as something comes into sight it is swept past us and something else takes its place and that too will be swept away."
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"When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you."
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Marcus Aurelius
"When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you."
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"We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace."
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James D. Watkins
"We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era - a permanent state of what I call violent peace."
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"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."
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Marcus Aurelius
"That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees."
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"Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the change, be the difference, or be the inspiration. Shine your light as an example. The world needs more of that."
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Germany Kent
"Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the change, be the difference, or be the inspiration. Shine your light as an example. The world needs more of that."
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"No one else knows exactly what the future holds for you, no one else knows what obstacles you've overcome to be where you are, so don't expect others to feel as passionate about your dreams as you do."
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Germany Kent
"No one else knows exactly what the future holds for you, no one else knows what obstacles you've overcome to be where you are, so don't expect others to feel as passionate about your dreams as you do."
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"There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with."
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William Halsey
"There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with."
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"The major deterrent to war is in a man's mind."
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Arleigh Burke
"The major deterrent to war is in a man's mind."
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"They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions."
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Ethan A. Hitchcock
"They should hold themselves absolutely upon the immovable foundation of truth and nature, whereby alone they can save themselves from misapprehensions and from the danger of being entirely carried away from reality into mere dreams and fictions."
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"Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely."
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"Snow endures but for a season and joy comes with the morning."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Snow endures but for a season and joy comes with the morning."
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"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."
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Marcus Aurelius
"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."
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"Be transparent. Let's build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another."
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Germany Kent
"Be transparent. Let's build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another."
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"The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood."
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George B. McClellan
"The Union, which can alone insure internal peace, and external security to each State, Must and Shall be Preserved, cost what it may in time, treasure, and blood."
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"There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man."
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William H. Hunt
"There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man."
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"I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan."
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Jay Garner
"I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan."
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"I made a big mistake of my life."
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Robert Jenkins
"I made a big mistake of my life."
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