Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and … - A. A. Milne

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That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.

A. A. Milne

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

Anguish, Appalling, Heart, Ideas, Manual, Writing

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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

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If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together. . . there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we're apart. . . I'll always be with you.

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Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing

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The average man finds life very uninteresting as it is. And I think the reason why is that he is always waiting for something to happen to him instead of setting to work to make things happen

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In the quiet hours when we are alone and there is nobody to tell us what fine fellows we are, we come sometimes upon a moment in which we wonder, not how much money we are earning, nor how famous we have become, but what good we are doing.

Earning, Famous, Fine, Quiet, Sometimes, Wonder

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My hard work finally catching up with perfect timing

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The electricity came on for the second time today wile we were eating. This may be a fool's paradise, but it's a paradise nonetheless.

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Mark Twain

Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

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Malcolm X

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.

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Gaston Rebuffat

Rise early. Fix a time-table to which you must try to keep. One seldom regrets having made an early start, but one always regrets having set off too late; first for reasons of safety-the adage 'it is later than you think is very true in the mountains-but also because of the strange beauty of the moment: the day comes to replace the night, the peaks gradually lighten, it is the hour of mystery but also of hope. Setting off by lantern-light, witnessing the birth of a new day as one climbs to meet the sun, this is a wonderful experience

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