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You must make your own opportunities. — John Bartholomew Gough
If a lion is not accepted in its own den, it will find no refuge in the rest of the jungle. — Wes Fesler
Every man is the son of his own works. — Miguel de Cervantes
He ended up on his own. I thought, he's got rid of everybody else, he's going to get rid of himself and he did." "Things… — Tony Hancock
The act of taking my own life is not something that I do without a lot of thought. I don't believe that people should take… — Wendy O. Williams
I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer. Some choosy people… — Haruki Murakami
You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in… — Wally Schirra
No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four hours of trudging in wind… — Tom O'Connor
The less said about the putter the better. Here is an instrument of torture, designed by Tantalus and forged in the devil's own smithy. — Tony Lema
Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch it… — Nathaniel Branden
The complementary movement towards divine love is growth in humility which is the acceptence of the reality about ourselves, our own weakness and limitations. — Thomas Keating
No one on earth can hurt you, unless you accept the hurt in your own mind. . . The problem is not other people; it… — Vernon Howard
Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you are free to live. — Saul Alinsky
Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is! — Tom Peters
With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting effective teaching in… — Bill Gates
Only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable… — Confucius
If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not… — Aristotle
Teachers who do not take their own education seriously, who do not study, who make little effort to keep abreast of events have no moral… — Paulo Freire
No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that… — Paulo Freire
Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists. The two associated objects… — William James
An idea will infect another with its own emotional interest when they have become both associated together into any sort of a mental total. — William James
The most natively interesting object to a man is his own personal self and its fortunes. We accordingly see that the moment a thing becomes… — William James
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits. — William James
The art of remembering is the art of thinking. When we wish to fix a new thing in either our own mind or a pupil's,… — William James
If little else, the brain is an educational toy. Why it may be a frustrating play thing - one whose finer points recede just when… — Tom Robbins

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