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Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.


Antonin Artaud

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IZEY VICTORIA ODIASE I really think that Muslim people should stop raising their boys and girls that way. They instill a ...
SIBEL KEKILLI If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don...
JOYCE MEYER If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak an...
GEORGE ORWELL Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you never lost your temper, never got down on yo...
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ORISON SWETT MARDEN You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.
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TOM FRESTON The less you look to others,
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SHARON SALZBERG If they found a chicken on the side of the road, they ate the chicken - then they ate the bones.
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W. G. SEBALD If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it...
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C.J. CARLYON You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under...
DAMON HILL Never express yourself more clearly than you think.
NIELS BOHR Never express yourself more clearly than you think.
NIELS HENRIK DAVID BOHR To make an absolutely gross generalization, I think a lot of people feel like if you're mixed, m...
KEEGAN-MICHAEL KEY If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt b...
CAMERON DOKEY On your death bed, you will not wish you had been more comfortable, or that you had found an even ea...
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GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON You have nobody to blame but yourself if you stumble more than once over the same stump
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SHARON CREECH Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
NIELS BOHR Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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DAMON HILL I love you more than you love yourself! A fact you will never realize.
RAMANA PEMMARAJU Don’t let anyone kick you down, but if they do, pick yourself up & dust off yourself. Never change...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA There is no magic herb that makes a brave man. Courage is knowing that what you do is necessary. Don...
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MARILYN ANDERSEN You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without...
JOHN NANCE GARNER God, Bones, you must have argued yourself blue in the face.
JEANIENE FROST If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.
TAYLOR SWIFT I found one that is less obtrusive than some. It sounds more like a wind chime than a regular ring t...
JACQUELINE WHITMORE When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'...
CARL SAGAN When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'...
CARL EDWARD SAGAN When you make the finding yourself even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light you'll n...
CARL SAGAN A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.
JEFF RASKIN If you take away print and embroidery, you have to challenge yourself a bit more on the cut.
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CURTIS TYRONE JONES Love is when you find something so great, so . . . necessary, that it becomes more important to y...
DAN WELLS It's difficult but it's certainly necessary. You never want to take yesterday's baggage into tomorro...
CRAIG MACTAVISH Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who...
QUENTIN CRISP Life is a game in which the rules are constantly changing; nothing spoils a game more than those who...
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DARIUS WASHINGTON JR Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself,...
ROGER CARAS Don't take too much, don't take more than you need. Liberate yourself from over-consumerism. Buy wha...
AKIROQ BROST The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The more you loose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I've stopped work and said, 'Thank...
HELEN MIRREN If you are not right with God, you can never turn your mind anywhere but on yourself.
OSWALD CHAMBERS More coals can be added to the top if necessary, ... Add coals to the top rather than to the bottom,...
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CARL SAGAN If you don’t know your maker, chances are that you will never know yourself. If you don’t know y...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself,...
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EVE ENSLER Never cosign a loan. Once you have cosigned, you cannot get out of it - even on your deathbed.
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CLIVE ANDERSON Never force yourself on another. If you do this, then this is you trampling on your own dignity with...
OMOAKHUANA ANTHONIA Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me
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