“ The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by. ”
- H. G. Wells- Copy
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“ The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. ”
- Lin Yutang- Copy
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“ Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of the nonessentials. ”
- Lin Yutang- Copy
- 346
“ There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed. ”
- Unknown- Copy
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“ Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective. ”
- William S. Burroughs- Copy
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“ We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. ”
- Warren E. Burger- Copy
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“ Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life so full of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think about food. ”
- Peace Pilgrim- Copy
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“ Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem. ”
- Jodie Foster- Copy
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“ There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind… ”
- Jan Ashford- Copy
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“ Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. ”
- Oscar W. Firkins- Copy
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“ How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose… ”
- Lord Rosebery- Copy
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“ Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood… ”
- William James- Copy
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