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Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
William Wordsworth
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All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.


Sam Walton
If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.
Heber J. Grant
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
Pablo Picasso
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The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Robert Kiyosaki
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Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have.
E. L. Doctorow
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I shall try and effect all that is before me to perform; and God, I think, will surely give me strength for His work so long as He directs my line of duty.
Dorothea Dix
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No one can read with profit that which he cannot learn to read with pleasure.


Thomas Hardy
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Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career.
Shelley Duvall
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.


Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
Willa Cather
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Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Abraham Lincoln
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We yearn, as spirit children of our Heavenly Father, for that joy which we once had with Him in the life before this one. His desire is to grant us that sacred wish for unity out of His love for us.
Henry B. Eyring
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Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.


Wayne Dyer
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I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.


Ed O'Brien
Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.
Louisa May Alcott
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While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most obvious, commonsense reforms to save taxpayer dollars.
Jim Ryun
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God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.


Meir Soloveichik
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot
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What I think a lot of great marathon runners do is envision crossing that finish line. Visualization is critical. But for me, I set a lot of little goals along the way to get my mind off that overwhelming goal of 26.2 miles. I know I've got to get to 5, and 12, and 16, and then I celebrate those little victories along the way.
Bill Rancic
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