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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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“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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“We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“We never repent of having eaten too little. — Thomas Jefferson”
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“We rarely find that people have good sense unless they agree with us. — François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (16131680), Reflections, maxim 347”
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“We see more of ourselves in people who mess up, who say dumb things at exactly the wrong moment. — Eric Edson”
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“We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad. — John F. Kennedy”
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“We were poor when I was young, but the difference then was that the government didn’t come around telling you you were poor. — Ronald Reagan”
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“We’re pursuing pleasure and painlessness because we think that’s where we’re most happy. But we’re not. — Jeff Goins”
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“Wealth consists not in having great possessions but in having few wants. — Epicurus”
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“Well done is better than well said. — Benjamin Franklin”
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“What counts is not the size of the dog in the fight but the size of the fight in the dog. — Dwight David Eisenhower”
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“What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. — Albert Camus”
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