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Frankisms
Short truths, collected over a lifetime of writing and teaching. Read a few, or lose an afternoon.
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“Approaches based on self-love only serve to drive your focus more and more on the self. This obscures the separation needed in the act of creating, so that you will be less effective over time. — Robert Fritz”
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“April 1 is the day upon which we are reminded what we are on the other 364. — Mark Twain”
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“Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience. — Alfred North Whitehead”
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“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. — Eugène Delacroix”
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“As the purse is emptied the heart is filled. — Victor Hugo”
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“At least 99 percent of the opinions in the world are thought to be facts, and that’s a fact. — Robert Pinkert”
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“Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man. — Francis Bacon, Essays of Atheism”
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“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are. — John Wooden”
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“Before we get rid of something, we must plan what will take its place or we may end up worse off than ever. — Thomas Harris”
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“Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. — James B. Conant”
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“Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions. — Timothy Ferriss”
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“Better limp all the way to heaven than not get there at all. — Billy Sunday”
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“Better to be pruned to grow than cut up to burn. — John Trapp”
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“Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“Bulls and bears aren’t responsible for as many stock losses as bum steers. — Olin Miller”
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“Buy a used car with the same caution a naked man uses to climb a barbed-wire fence. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong. — Charles Wadsworth”
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“Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“Chance favors only the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur”
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“Chances are very good that the person you’re listening to has nobody else in their life who listens to them the way you are doing. — Bob Burg”
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“Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. — Harold S. Hubert”
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“Christ is not valued at all unless he be valued above all. — Augustine”
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“Common sense is very uncommon. — Horace Greeley”
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“Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof. — James Russell Lowell”
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“Debt is the worst poverty. — Magnus G. Lichtwer”
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“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance. — Robert Quillen”
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“Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“Do what you have to do because nobody will understand your motives anyway. — Dennis Hensley”
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“Don’t believe all you hear, spend all you have, or sleep all you want. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Don’t confuse comfort with happiness. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Don’t confuse wealth with success. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched. — Aesop”
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“Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. — Robert Frost”
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“Don’t expect the best gifts to come wrapped in pretty paper. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Don’t let weeds grow around your dreams. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. — John Wooden”
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“Don’t stop the parade to pick up a dime. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Don’t think expensive equipment will make up for lack of talent or practice. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Don’t think you can fill an emptiness in your heart with money. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Each morning puts a man on trial, and each evening passes judgment. — Roy L. Smith”
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