We are never prepared for what we expect. - James A. Michener

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Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.

James A. Michener

We are never prepared for what we expect.

Expect, Hmmm, Preparation, Prepared

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Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

Enjoy, Opportunity, Procrastination, Today, Tomorrow

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

Excellence, Inspirational, Inspiring, Leaving, Love, Vision

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Character, Consists, Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Tries

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

Fear, Food, Funny, Home, Inspirational, Travel

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

Book, Keep, Nights, Reading, Writing

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I don't know when the idea of suicide first occurred to me. In some ways, it had been in the back of my mind for years. Yet, oddly, I would never have thought of it as an option. It was the perceived lack of options-the final, unacceptable solution to a grave and insoluble dilemma. I had always thought of it in the same way: If all else fails, if I have nowhere else to turn, I can do this.

Dilemma, Insoluble, Lack, Suicidal, Suicide, Years

Agatha Christie

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea.

Frightening, Idea, Ideas, Knows, Life

William Howard Taft

The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it. It cannot be uttered; it can only be felt and acted. It is, in fact, an open secret, and each man knows it according to his quest and capacity. Like all things worth knowing, no one can know it for another and no man can know it alone.

Capacity, Fact, Knowing, Knows, Men, Secret

Benito Mussolini

It's good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.

Trust, Trust Others, Corporatism, Good

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