Ryan Reynolds
Actor
"When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment."
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Martin Buber
Philosopher
"Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons."
Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work."
Claude Monet
Painter
"I'm very happy, very delighted. I'm setting to like a fighting cockerel, for I'm surrounded here by all that I love."
Denis Waitley
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves."
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"We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness."
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"I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me."
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"Poetry is the renewal of words, setting them free, and that's what a poet is doing: loosening the words."
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