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Henry Ford Industrialist
May

"An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation."

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Paramahansa Yogananda Spiritual Teacher, Author
May

"This world is not the same to all people. Each one lives in his little domain....Peace and harmony may reign in one person's world; where strife and restlessness in anothers. But whatever the circumstances of one's environment, it consists of both an inner and an outer world. The outside world is the one in which your life engages in action and interaction. The world inside of you determines your happiness or unhappiness."

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Paramahansa Yogananda Spiritual Teacher, Author
May

"Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind."

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
May

"The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment."

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Sam Smith Singer
May

"The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it."

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Teresa of Avila Saint, Mystic, Writer
May

"Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them."

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May

"If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won."

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