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«If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it [but] people would be better off buyin' chickens.»
«Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep»
Author: Carl Sandburg
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Historian,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Life
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Keywords:
at a time,
come off,
layer,
layered,
off,
off and on,
one at a time,
onion,
Onions,
on and off,
peel,
peeled,
peeling,
peels,
peel of,
peel off,
sometimes,
take time off,
The Onion,
time off,
weep
«If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.»
Author: Denis Waitley
(
Author,
Speaker)
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About:
Belief
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Keywords:
assuredly,
belief,
gets,
ignition,
ignition switch,
launches,
launching,
launching pad,
off,
pad,
padded,
pads,
probably,
switch,
switched,
switches,
switching,
switch off,
switch on
«If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.»
Author: J. Russell Lynes
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Writer)
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About:
Insults
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Keywords:
deserved,
ignore,
insult,
laugh,
Laugh It Off,
laugh off,
off,
probably,
top,
topped,
topping
«Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.»
«I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.»
«If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.»
«If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(
Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
bald,
citizen,
Citizens for,
danger,
days,
day off,
deemed,
deeming,
deems,
each day,
earth,
enterprising,
half,
half time,
halves,
her,
industrious,
Into the Woods,
in regard to,
Loafer,
loafers,
making,
off,
out of danger,
regarded,
regard as,
shear,
sheared,
shearing,
shears,
shorn,
speculator,
speculators,
spends,
take time off,
the Earth,
time off,
time of day,
walks,
walk off,
woods
«It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.»
Author: Jim Rohn
(
Author,
Speaker)
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Keywords:
come off,
decisions,
fence,
fenced in,
fence in,
fencing,
get,
getting,
get off,
in progress,
making,
matter,
matters,
off,
off and on,
on and off,
on the fence,
progress,
progressed,
progresses,
progressing,
progress to,
side,
sided,
Side Out,
sometimes
«It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
information,
Information the,
More information,
no show,
off,
private,
privates,
show,
show off