When we have 'second thoughts' about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all - just feelings.
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Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one saying, "Why not?" and the other, "Why bother?"Sydney J. Harris
The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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All significant achievement comes from daring, from experiment, from the willingness to risk failure.
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