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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
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"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company."

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Richard Bach Author
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"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours. Do you think, if you say the word "impossible" enough times, that difficult things will suddenly become easier for you?"

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Richard Bach Author
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"nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make."

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Richard Bach Author
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"We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure... not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth!"

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Richard Bach Author
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"I think there's an invisible principle of living too. If we believe we're guided through every step of our lives, we are. It's a lovely sight, watching it work."

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Richard Bach Author
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"Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask."

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Richard Bach Author
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"Reputation is what people think you are. Character is who you really are. Take care of your character and your reputation will take care of itself. The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
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"I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it."

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Richard Ford Novelist
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"Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what writers really want to do is get accepted into things. They want to get accepted into society, into culture, into intelligentsia, into the fun. Writing is their mechanism, their instrument, for doing that."

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