A couple of hundred years ago, Benjamin Franklin shared with the world the secret of his success. Never leave that till tomorrow, he said, which you can do today. This is the man who discovered electricity. You think more people would listen to what he had to say. I don't know why we put things off, but if I had to guess, I'd have to say it has a lot to do with fear. Fear of failure, fear of rejection, sometimes the fear is just of making a decision, because what if you're wrong? What if you're making a mistake you can't undo? The early bird catches the worm. A stitch in time saves nine. He who hesitates is lost. We can't pretend we hadn't been told. We've all heard the proverbs, heard the philosophers, heard our grandparents warning us about wasted time, heard the damn poets urging us to seize the day. Still sometimes we have to see for ourselves. We have to make our own mistakes. We have to learn our own lessons. We have to sweep today's possibility under tomorrow's rug until we can't anymore. Until we finally understand for ourselves what Benjamin Franklin really meant. That knowing is better than wondering, that waking is better than sleeping, and even the biggest failure, even the worst, beat the hell out of never trying.
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I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me.. But I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.
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How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.
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Everyone has heard of the expression, <i>if you can't beat them, join them</i>. But what does that mean when youre being mugged? If youre being overpowered, do you have to help the muggers mug you?
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One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach
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The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
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Methink'st thou art a general offence and every man should beat thee.
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I turn on my computer. I wait patiently as it connects. I go online. My breath catches in my chest until I hear 3 little words, You've got mail. I hear nothing, not a sound on the streets of New York. Just the beat of my own heart. I have mail.. From you.
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Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
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I will beat thee into handsomeness
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Two souls with but a single thought,<br/>Two hearts that beat as one.
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Male superiority in former days was easily demonstrated, because if a woman questioned her husband's he could beat her. From superiority in this respect others were thought to follow. Men were more reasonable than women, more inventive, less swayed b
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And while I at length debate and beat the bush, There shall step in other men and catch the birds
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Don't argue! You cannot win, you cannot beat a woman in a arguement. It's impossble you will not win. Cause men, we are handicapped when it comes to arguing cause we have a need to make sense
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Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard Heartbreak Hotel I thought, this is it
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
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The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes
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That's the problem with religion: you beat your way past the clerics, fight your way through the demons, stand before the holy of holies, and when you rip away the veil, there's nothing there but a mirror
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I eat whatever the guy who beat me in the last race ate.
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There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
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Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.
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Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy
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