Mardy Grothe

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The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.
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Collection: Voice
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The best thing about the battle between the sexes is often the sex between the battles.
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Collection: Sex
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When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.
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Collection: Indicators
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Throughout history, most of the wrongs of the world have resulted from people absolutely sure they were in the right.
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Collection: People
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Even though it runs counter to popular belief, Life's critical decisions are usually made in the heart and only later ratified by the brain.
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Collection: Running
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If only people fought undeserved praise as much as they do unfair criticism.
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Collection: People
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The secret of a successful relationship is avoiding the unforgivable and forgiving the unavoidable.
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Collection: Successful
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The best teachers aren't those who answer our questions, but those who question our answers.
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Collection: Teacher
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To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.
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Collection: Life
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Never let the worst of you get the best of you.
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Collection: Worst
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The fastest way to lose an argument is to lose your temper.
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Collection: Way
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Sometimes I wonder which is worse - confrontational people who are afraid of caring or caring people who are afraid of confrontation.
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Collection: Caring
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Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.
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Collection: Heart
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Never confuse the importance of things with things of importance.
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Collection: Importance
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Men are like microwave ovens; they heat up immediately, but things start to boil over after about three minutes. Women are like conventional ovens; they take twenty minutes to heat up, but can go on cooking for hours.
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Collection: Men
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A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.
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Collection: Plot
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If life is a blank canvas and all people are artists, the big challenge we all face may be expressed this way: Will we ultimately produce something approaching a masterpiece, an acceptable but not particularly memorable work of art, or a creation that wouldn't even be purchased at a yard sale?
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Collection: Art
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Some people have a perverse talent; they're capable of shooting themselves in the foot and stabbing themselves in the back at the exact same time.
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Collection: Feet
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When we successfully deceive others, they are not aware of it; the same is true with self-deception.
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Collection: Self
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If you are completely comfortable with your life, and feeling absolutely no anxiety, then you are probably coasting, and not really growing.
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Collection: Anxiety
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It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.
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Collection: Pain
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If you don't love your work, it's hard to love your life.
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Collection: Love You
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We tend to see our character flaws as simple defects, and the simple defects of others as character flaws.
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Collection: Character
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The young think about how they'll change the world, the old think about how the world has changed.
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Collection: Thinking
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Excessive wealth is a great problem masquerading as a great good.
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Collection: Problem
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Throughout history, one of the biggest problems is that the correct course of action is not always obvious, and the obvious course of action is not always correct.
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Collection: Action
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Two of the biggest conversational blunders you can make are saying something when you should stay silent, and staying silent when you should say something.
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Collection: Two
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By trying to make things easier for their children, parents can make things much harder for them.
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Collection: Children
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Never rely on your friends for money, or on your money for friends.
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Collection: Rely
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There is one message children can never hear enough as they grow up, and adults should never forget as long as they live: To accomplish big things, you must first dream big dreams.
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Collection: Dream
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People who are most interested in telling the truth about others are generally the least interested in having the truth told about themselves.
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Collection: People
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Turning seventy is like beginning the eighth inning of a baseball game. The contest is nearing completion, but there's likely to be some action, and even a few exciting plays, before the game draws to an end.
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Collection: Baseball
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We all know that working out reduces stress, but it's equally true that stressing out reduces work.
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Collection: Stress
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The music of lovers is not generally appreciated by lovers of music.
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Collection: Love
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The world will never discover a person who is hiding in the crowd.
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Collection: World
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Adolescence is a kind of slavery cleverly disguised as freedom.
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Collection: Slavery
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People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride.
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Collection: Pride
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People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.
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Collection: People
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When we're young, everything is possible; when we're old, possibilities are everything.
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Collection: Possibility
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If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to their ankles.
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Collection: Race
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If you want to understand a difficult or trying person, begin by asking the question: 'What is the wound they are trying to heal?'
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Collection: Trying
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Be helpful to all who need your assistance, but don't overdo it. Over-helpfulness too often results in under-performance.
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Collection: Needs
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The high cost of living is a minor problem when compared to the cost of high living.
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Collection: Cost Of Living
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The most important dreams occur while people are fully awake.
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Collection: Dream
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Never confuse looking your best with doing your best.
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Collection: Doing Your Best
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The best time to give feedback to strong people is when they're feeling weak, and to weak people when they're feeling strong.
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Collection: Strong
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The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage.
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Collection: Opportunity
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Instead of talking in the hope that people will listen, try listening in the hope that people will talk.
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Collection: Talking
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You'll never stand out if your goal in life is to fit in.
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Collection: Goal
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Why is it that the most important stuff to listen to is almost always the stuff we don't want to hear?
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Collection: Important