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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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“There’s no difference between a pessimist who says, Oh, it’s hopeless, so don’t bother doing anything, and an optimist who says, Don’t bother doing anything, it’s going to turn out fine anyway. Either way, nothing happens. — Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia”
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“There’s only one thing as difficult as unscrambling an egg, and that’s unspreading a rumor. — George Sweeting”
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“Think big thoughts, but relish small pleasures. — H. Jackson Brown Jr”
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“Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. — Austin O’Malley”
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“Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Marcus Aurelius”
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“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. — Benjamin Franklin, 17061790”
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“Time is money. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. — Theophrastus (d. 278 BC), From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk. V, sec. 40”
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“Time is wasted because there is so much time available. — Timothy Ferriss”
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“Time will rust the sharpest sword. — Sir Walter Scott (17711832), Harold the Dauntless [1817], canto I, st. 4”
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“To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it. — G.K. Chesterton”
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“To be visionary, a person must see beyond popular views of reality. — Robert Fritz”
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“To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. — William H. Walton”
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“To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. — Syrus”
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“To live without a memory is to live alone. — Gilles Marcotte”
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“Tomorrow becomes never. — Timothy Ferriss”
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“Torture numbers, and they’ll confess to anything. — Gregg Easterbrook”
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“Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. — Henry Ward Beecher”
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“Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. — Abraham Lincoln (18091865), Letter to Secretary Stanton, refusing to dismiss Postmaster-General Montgomery Blair [July 18, 1864]”
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“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold”
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“Truths kindle light for truths. — Lucretius (9555 BC), De Rerum Natura, I, 1. 1117”
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“Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. — Albert Einstein”
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“United we stand. Divided we fall. — Aesop”
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“Unless energy is deliberately and repeatedly applied to new courses of action, we will continue to do the same thing the same old way. — Thomas Harris”
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“Usually, when we say we can’t do something, what we mean is that we won’t do something unless we can guarantee that we’ll do it perfectly. — Julia Cameron”
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“Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. — George Bernard Shaw (18461950), Man and Superman. Maxims for Revolutionists”
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“Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars on poverty are fought to map change. — Muhammad Ali”
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“Wars to end wars are an illusion. Wars, more than any other form of human activity, create the conditions which breed more war. — John Foster Dulles”
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“Wars will occur until man changes his nature. — Millard Fillmore”
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“Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla. — Jim Bishop”
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“We all fear the pain of rejection when we commit to emotional openness. But accepting some suffering in life is necessary to live fully. — Eric Edson”
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“We are driven more strongly to avoid losses than to achieve gains. — Daniel Kahneman”
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“We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong. — William Hazlitt, 17781830”
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“We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness. — Daniel Kahneman”
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“We cannot escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion who accompanies us on all our exciting adventures. — Susan Jeffers”
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“We develop emotionally and spiritually until the moment we die. — Tim Sanders”
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“We get so much in the habit of wearing a disguise before others that we eventually appear disguised before ourselves. — Jim Bishop”
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“We judge ourselves by our motives and others by their actions. — Dwight Morrow”
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“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”
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“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. — Martin Luther King Jr”
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