“Seek first to understand, then to be understood.”
― Stephen R. Covey
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Skeptical – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Great intellects are skeptical”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Accomplish great things – Anatole France
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”
– Anatole France
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Free – Walter Mosley
“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
– Walter Mosley
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Comedy – Chris Rock
“Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.”
– Chris Rock
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Never – Ovid
“Never choose a wife by candlelight, nor a friend at a feast, nor a horse at a fair.”
– Ovid
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Be yourself – Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
– Oscar Wilde
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First-rate – Doris Lessing
“What’s terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don’t need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you’re capable of better.”
– Doris Lessing
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American health care – Walter Cronkite
“America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.”
– Walter Cronkite
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True peace – MLK
“True peace is not just the absence of tension, it’s the presence of justice”
– MLK
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Sadness – W. B. Yeats
“And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky,
Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die”
– W. B. Yeats
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Reputation – Henry Ford
“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.”
– Henry Ford
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Learning – Michelangelo
“I am still learning.”
– Michelangelo
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Mental health – Alain de Botton
“Mental health: having enough safe places in your mind for your thoughts to settle.”
– Alain de Botton
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Love – Amis
“While you love, that which is innate in you becomes malleable; so love shapes you.”
– Amis