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Michael Jordan

“Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.” Michael Jordan

Jacques Lacan

“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?” Jacques Lacan

Ivana Santilli

“Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?” Ivana Santilli

Chinese Proverb

“Life is a tragedy for those who feel; and a comedy for those who think.” Chinese Proverb

Aristotle

“Hope is the dream of a waking man.” Aristotle

Oscar Wilde

“In married life three is company and two is none.” Oscar Wilde

Voltaire

“If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.” Voltaire

Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.” Alejandro Jodorowsky

Elaine Agather

“The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.” Elaine Agather

Aristotle

“The gods are too fond of a joke.” Aristotle

Anonymous

“Lazy people work double.” Anonymous

Guy Kawasaki

“Greatness is won, not awarded.” Guy Kawasaki

Groucho Marx

“Die in the West and you're halfway to Heaven.” Groucho Marx

Robert Byrne

“In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.” Robert Byrne

Bruce Feirstein

“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” Bruce Feirstein

Samuel Gompers

“The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.” Samuel Gompers

Tom Stoppard

“Imagination without skill gives us contemporary art.” Tom Stoppard

Friedrich Schiller

“Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.” Friedrich Schiller

Alphonse de Lemartine

“To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.” Alphonse de Lemartine

George Orson Welles

“I don't say that we ought to all misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.” George Orson Welles

Gloria Steinem

“The first problem for us all, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” Gloria Steinem

Marshall McLuhan

“Jokes are grievances.” Marshall McLuhan

Richard Kemph

“Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired.” Richard Kemph

Jean-Paul Sartre

“Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.” Jean-Paul Sartre

Amy Tan

“If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.” Amy Tan

Joel Miller

“Drug prohibition does not end drug use. It simply forces the consumer to break the law in order to get what he wants.” Joel Miller

Albert Einstein

“Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein

The Marquis de Sade

“All creatures are born isolated and have no need of one another.” The Marquis de Sade

Henry Louis Mencken

“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.” Henry Louis Mencken

Jack Canfield

“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” Jack Canfield

Henry Louis Mencken

“Nature abhors a moron.” Henry Louis Mencken

Leo Burnett

“When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.” Leo Burnett

Isaac Asimov

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.” Isaac Asimov

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Live in danger. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Billy Graham

“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.” Billy Graham

Friedrich Nietzsche

“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” Friedrich Nietzsche

German Proverb

“Arbeit macht das Leben sus. (Work makes life sweet.)” German Proverb

Roman Proverb

“Mille vie ducunt homines per secula ad Roman.” Roman Proverb

Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friedrich Nietzsche

“I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Octave Mirbeau

“Murder is the very bed-rock of our social institutions.” Octave Mirbeau

Anne Frank

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” Anne Frank

Malcolm Gladwell

“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.” Malcolm Gladwell

Malcolm X

“I am not educated nor am I an expert in any particular field. But I am sincere and my sincerity is my credentials.” Malcolm X

Laozi

“How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?” Laozi

Charles Schultz

“Well of course, winning is great, but it's not funny. And there are no happy endings in my stories because happiness, too, isn't funny.” Charles Schultz

Tom Peters

“If it ain't broke, break it (or someone else will break it for you).” Tom Peters

Mark Twain

“The human race has only one really effective weapon and that is laughter.” Mark Twain

Joseph Heller

“There are yawning gulfs into which large chunks of me have fallen. I do not always know where I am at present.” Joseph Heller

Kashy Keegan

“Life can surprise you when it is least expected.” Kashy Keegan

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Ingmar Bergman

“I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.” Ingmar Bergman

Neil Patel

“It takes more time and energy trying to go around problems than it does trying to solve them.” Neil Patel

James Mercer Langston Hughes

“Looks like what drive me crazy have no effect on you. But, I'm going to keep at it. Till it drives you crazy too.” James Mercer Langston Hughes

Albert Einstein

“I haven't failed, I just found 100,000 ways that don't work.” Albert Einstein

Paul Newman

“The world belongs to meat eaters. If you have to take it raw, eat it raw.” Paul Newman

William Shakespeare

“O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!” William Shakespeare

John Steinbeck

“I am happy to report that in the war between reality and romance, reality is not the stronger.” John Steinbeck

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.” Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche

“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.” Friedrich Nietzsche