Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults of the first.
Benjamin Franklin
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Let us endeavour so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
Mark Twain
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Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.
Abraham Lincoln
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I have now come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason: I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
Abraham Lincoln
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If a man really loves a woman, of course he wouldn't marry her for the world if he were not quite sure that he was the best person she could by any possibility marry.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I cannot be intimidated from doing that which my judgment and conscience tells me is right by any earthly power.
Andrew Jackson
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Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein
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Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
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The most casual student of history knows that, as a matter of fact, truth does not necessarily vanquish. What is more, truth can never win unless it is promulgated. Truth does not carry within itself an antitoxin to falsehood. The cause of truth must be championed, and it must be championed dynamically.
William Buckley Jr.
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I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.
Abraham Lincoln
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The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
William Channing
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It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee
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I like it: I always did, and that is the reason I never use it.
Robert E. Lee
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The sum of wisdom is, that the time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.
Henry David Thoreau
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Ain't it funny how many hundreds of thousands of soldiers we can recruit with nerve. But we just can't find one politician in a million with backbone.
Will Rogers
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If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned.
Will Rogers
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A debt is just as hard for a government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that is handy all the time.
Will Rogers
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I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.
Will Rogers
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There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
Will Rogers
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Dear Sirs, I guess your pianos are the best I ever leaned against. Yours truly, Will Rogers.
Will Rogers
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When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.
Will Rogers
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Things in our country run in spite of government, not by the aid of it.
Will Rogers
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Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers
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The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.
Will Rogers
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Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I've failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller
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One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
Grace Hopper
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You only have to do something until you want to do it, then you won't have to do it any more.
Leland Val Vandewall
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Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
Leland Val Vandewall
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Your relationships can be made to increase in value by investing more time in them.
Brian Tracy
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It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Judith Martin
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A man learns by two things. One is reading. The other is association with smarter people.
Will Rogers
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People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.
Will Rogers
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Time has only proven one thing, and that is that you can't ruin this country even with politics.
Will Rogers
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There is no argument in the world carries the hatred that a religious belief does.
Will Rogers
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My Dear President:
Will Rogers
Will you kindly find out for me through our Intelligence Department who is the fellow that said a big boat didn't rock. Hold him till I return.
Yours feeble but still devotedly,
WILLROG
That's code name for Will Rogers
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I think the best insurance in the world against another war is to take care of the boys who fought in the last one. You may want to use them again.
Will Rogers
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The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
Will Rogers
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There is only one way in the world to prevent war, and that is for every nation to tend to its own business.
Will Rogers
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Take the profits out of war, and you won't have any war.
Will Rogers
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Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.
Will Rogers
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It's all right to fix the world, but you better get your own smokehouse full of meat first.
Will Rogers
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Your mother gets mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day her mother was just on the verge of sending her to a reformatory, so we just got to live and let live and laugh the whole thing off.
Will Rogers
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He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.
Saint Francis
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If you can't state your position in eight words or less, you don't have a position.
Seth Godin
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Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
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If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.
Eric Shinseki
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If things seem under control, you're just not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti
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We have a 'strategic' plan. It's called doing things.
Herb Kelleher
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Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.
Sir Winston Churchill
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The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
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We get paid for bringing value to the marketplace. It takes time to bring value to the marketplace, but we get paid for the value, not the time.
Jim Rohn
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If you make a sale, you can make a living. If you make an investment of time and good service in a customer, you can make a fortune.
Jim Rohn
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The worst days of those who enjoy what they do are better than the best days of those who don't.
Jim Rohn
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I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.
Florence Nightingale
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As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein
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You can't always be sure when you try to help somebody that you are really helping. But I'd rather help somebody who didn't need it than not help somebody who did need it.
James Pickering
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America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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I'm not running for the presidency because I believe that I can solve the problems we've discussed tonight. I believe the people of this country can.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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There isn't any problem we can't solve if government will give us the facts. Tell us what needs to be done. Then, get out of the way and let us have at it.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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America represents something universal in the human spirit. I received a letter not long ago from a man who said, "You can go to Japan to live, but you cannot become Japanese. You can go to France to live and not become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey, and you won't become a German or a Turk." But then he added, "Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American."
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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What makes you think I'd be happy about that?
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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I think it's time we got mad and Mr. Gorbachev tried to get on our good side.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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You can't be for big government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain communism, it will transcend communism. We will not bother to denounce it. We'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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If communism is the wave of the future, why do you still need walls to keep people in and armies of secret police to keep them quiet?
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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If the Congress wants to bring the Panamanian economy to its knees, why doesn't it just go down there and run it?
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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If you’re not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
Ray Kroc
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
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Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.
W. C. Fields
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When you're outnumbered and surrounded and someone yells "charge", you don't have to ask which direction. Any way you're facing, you'll find a target.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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I had a copy of the Soviet Constitution and I read it with great interest. And I saw all kinds of terms in there that sound just exactly like our own: "freedom of assembly" and "freedom of speech" and so forth. Of course, they don't allow them to have those things, but they're in there in the constitution. But I began to wonder about the other constitutions - everyone has one - and our own, and why so much emphasis on ours. And then I found out, and the answer was very simple - that's why you don't notice it at first. But it is so great that it tells the entire difference. All those other constitutions are documents that say, "We, the government, allow the people the following rights," and our Constitution says "We, the People, allow the government the following privileges and rights."
Ronald Wilson Reagan
We give our permission to government to do the things that it does. And that's the whole story of the difference - why we're unique in the world and why no matter what our troubles may be, we're going to overcome.
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Today's hard-liner on law and order is yesterday's liberal who was mugged last night.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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I don't think that making it difficult for law-abiding citizens to obtain guns will lower the crime rate - not when the criminals will always find a way to get them.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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The most fundamental paradox is that, if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We Americans don't want war, and we don't start fights. We don't maintain a strong military force to conquer or coerce others. The purpose of our military is simple and straightforward: we want to prevent war by deterring others from the aggression that causes war. If our efforts are successful, we will have peace and never be forced into battle. There will never be a need to fire a single shot. That's the paradox of deterrence.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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None of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong. It is weakness that invites adventurous adversaries to make mistaken judgments. America is the most peaceful, least warlike nation in modern history. We are not the cause of all the ills of the world. We're a patient and generous people. But for the sake of our freedom and that of others, we cannot permit our reserve to be confused with a lack of resolve.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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They do not fear the United States for its diplomatic skills or the number of automobiles and software programs it produces. They respect only the firepower of our tanks, planes, and helicopter gunships.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a "people's democracy." It's the same as the difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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They [Democrats] are the same people who rediscover poverty every election and promise to cure it. They've cured it so often that they've now made a profession of it. They thrive on failures, on righting wrongs, on aiding victims, and so forth. It must be understood that success in those tasks would put them out of business. No matter how many programs are set up and operating, their proponents never claim success for them. To do so would be to say the problems have been solved, meaning the programs are no longer needed. And the programs, not the problems, are their very reason for being.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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We could say [Democrats] spend money like drunken sailors, but that would be unfair to drunken sailors. It would be unfair, because the sailors are spending their own money.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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St. Thomas Aquinas warned teachers they must never dig a ditch in front of a student that they failed to fill in. To raise doubts and to ever seek and never find is to be in opposition to education and progress. To discuss freely all sides of all questions without values is to ensure the creation of a generation of uninformed and talkative minds.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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In America we created at the local level and administered at the local level for many years the greatest public school system in the world. Now through something called federal aid to education, we have something called federal interference, and education has been the loser. Quality has declined as federal intervention has increased.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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We defend freedom here or it is gone. There is no place for us to run, only to make a stand. And if we fail, I think we face telling our children, and our children's children, what it was we found more precious than freedom. Because I am sure that someday - if we fail in this - there will be a generation that will ask.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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As government expands, liberty contracts.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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We were meant to be masters of destiny, not victims of fate.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Government is like a baby - an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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For three decades now we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan...Well, now if government and welfare had the answer - and they've had almost thirty years of it - shouldn't we expect government to read the score to us once in a while? Shouldn't they be telling us about the decline each year in the number of people needing help? And the reduction in the need for public housing? But the reverse is true.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb. Between the two, they are pressing us all into conformity, into a world of standardized mediocrity.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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It has been pointed out that the days of democracy are numbered once the belly takes command of the head. When the less affluent feel the urge to break a commandment and begin to covet that which their more affluent neighbors possess, they are tempted to use their votes to obtain instant satisfaction. Then equal opportunity at the starting line becomes an extended guarantee of at least a tie at the finish of the race. Under the euphamism "the greatest good for the greatest number," we destroy a system which has accomplished just that and move toward the managed economy which strangles freedom and mortgages generations yet to come.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it's moving you away from your goals.
Brian Tracy
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The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Brian Tracy
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You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Brian Tracy
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Don't let your learning lead to knowledge; let your learning lead to action.
Jim Rohn
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The common denominator of success - the secret of success of every man who has ever been successful - lies in the fact that he formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.
Albert Gray
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
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It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.
John Steinbeck
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Abraham Lincoln
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Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
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What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you.
Denis Waitley
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We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
Earl Nightingale
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If the creator had a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely meant us to stick it out.
Arthur Koestler
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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Harvey Mackay
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Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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No government at any level and for any price can afford the police necessary to assure our safety and our freedom unless the overwhelming majority of us are guided by an inner personal code of morality.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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My friends, some years ago the federal government declared war on poverty - and poverty won.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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I've noticed that everybody who is for abortion has already been born.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Confiscatory taxes bear a Democratic trademark. Since the inception of the federal income tax in 1914, it has been increased thirteen times under Democratic administrations. It has been reduced eight times under Republican administrations.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thomas Jefferson
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If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
Hal Abelson
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
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My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
Jimmy Durante
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Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
Clive Staples Lewis
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain
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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil, in case he do otherwise.
John Stuart Mill
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It is the heart which experiences God, and not the reason. This, then, is faith: God felt by the heart, not by the reason.
Blaise Pascal
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By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.
Blaise Pascal
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I doubt if there is among us a more useful citizen than the one who holds the secret of banishing gloom, of making tears give way to laughter, of supplanting desolation and despair with hope and courage, for hope and courage always go with a light heart.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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I don’t know the secret to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Bill Cosby
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What we do on some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.
Henry Parry Liddon
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The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson
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There are times when silence is golden, other times it is just plain yellow.
Ed Cole
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Facts mean truth, and once we adhere to truth, the law comes to our aid naturally.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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Never esteem anything as of advantage to thee that shall make thee break thy word or lose thy self-respect.
Marcus Aurelius
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The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasm, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at the best, know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
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Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
George Halas
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When God permits His children to go through the furnace, He keeps His eye on the clock and His hand on the thermostat. His loving heart knows how much and how long.
Warren Wiersbe
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To reach the port of heaven, we must sail, sometimes with the wind, sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.
Edgar Watson Howe
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If you own something you cannot give away, then you don’t own it, it owns you.
Albert Schweitzer
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To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.
Josh Billings
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The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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A man who silently lives by his ethics makes a more profound argument than one who deafens us with his shouting about them.
Gerry Spence
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Genius is not some fortunate arrangement of brain cells. Genius is energy, only directed energy.
Gerry Spence
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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams
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Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Wealth is not his who has it, but his who enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin
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Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.
Confucius
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You must have a good time meeting people if you expect them to have a good time meeting you.
Dale Carnegie
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You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.
Bear Bryant
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If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, you did it. That’s all it takes to get people to win football games.
Bear Bryant
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There are no office hours for champions.
Paul Dietzel
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Spectacular achievements are always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Roger Staubach
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It’s how you show up at the showdown that counts.
Homer Norton
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I can reach a kid who doesn’t have any ability as long as he doesn’t know it.
Bear Bryant
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When you make a mistake, admit it; learn from it and don’t repeat it.
Bear Bryant
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The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
Lou Holtz
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They’re only truly great who are truly good.
George Chapman
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Do the thing that is right even when the boss isn’t looking because the boss isn’t a criterion. The real boss is standing alongside you every moment of your life.
Alfred Haake
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
Sir Winston Churchill
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Power flows to the man who knows how. Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
Elbert Hubbard
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There is no limit to the good man can do if he doesn’t care who gets the credit.
Judson Branch
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It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
James Boren
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A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
James Crook
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There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Andrew Holmes
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It is no use saying, “We are doing our best.†You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Sir Winston Churchill
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Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Carl Sagan
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The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
Brian Tracy
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The ability to discipline yourself to delay gratification in the short term in order to enjoy greater rewards in the long term is the indispensable pre-requisite for success.
Brian Tracy
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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
Stephen King
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Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
Hannah Moore
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I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Dante Alighieri
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Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.
William James
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
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Circumstances - what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Abraham Lincoln
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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
Lucretius
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Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Henry Kaiser
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We are so outnumbered there is only one thing to do. We must attack.
Andrew Cunningham
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Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Alva Edison
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The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
William James
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
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He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
James Allen
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Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge.
James Allen
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This is the source.
A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life.
James Allen
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No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is power without a right. All power exercised over a nation, must have some beginning. It must be either delegated, or assumed. There are not other sources. All delegated power is trust, and all assumed power is usurpation. Time does not alter the nature and quality of either.
Thomas Paine
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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barton
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I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
Jane Wagner
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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Sir Edward Appleton
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I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.
Lord Brabazon
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Cabell
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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Sir Winston Churchill
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When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.
Clarence Darrow
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I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle
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The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.
King Edward VIII
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A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
Herman Melville
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
Samuel Goldwyn
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
Stephen Leacock
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All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things.
Bobby Knight
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All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Mark Twain
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As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
Dick Cavett
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Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
Will Rogers
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain
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Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Sir Winston Churchill
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei
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I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei
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I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein
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I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
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If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain
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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
Mark Twain
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Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry Truman
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Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
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Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
Mae West
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Susan Ertz
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln
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Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
Henry Kissinger
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
Gordon Dickson
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Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain
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Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
David Frost
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Albert Einstein
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The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
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There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers
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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Will Rogers
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe
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To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas Alva Edison
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln
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A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Harvey Mackay
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You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
Abraham Maslow
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale
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You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
Dan Quayle
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I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle
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We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.
Dan Quayle
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Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.
Russel Lynes
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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Mark Twain
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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Vince Lombardi
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson
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Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.
Kurt Alder
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Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
Redd Foxx
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The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
Larry Hardiman
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I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS.
Robert Bakker
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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
Richard Feynman
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcom Forbes
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The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
Christopher Lasch
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Sinclair Lewis
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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx
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If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
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You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
Olin Miller
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It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
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99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
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I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Oscar Wilde
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All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
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The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
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It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
Mark Twain
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A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
Barnett Cocks
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War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
Georges Clemenceau
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When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Norm Crosby
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If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain
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We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr
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The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.
Jay Leno
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The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
Mark Twain
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It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
Jerry Seinfeld
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
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Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Jules Renard
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Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Thomas Huxley
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
Anatole France
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You want to learn from experience, but you want to learn from other people's experience when you can.
Warren Buffett
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The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
Thomas Jefferson
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The only opinion of you that matters is your own.
Bill Bartmann
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The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Eugene McCarthy
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
Fred Allen
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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger
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The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Russell Green
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy
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There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Eric Hoffer
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Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Don Marquis
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
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I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
Mark Twain
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Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
Ben Hecht
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There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
William James
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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Ernest Benn
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Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes
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Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Alfred Hitchcock
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The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
David Brinkley
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Television has raised writing to a new low.
Samuel Goldwyn
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There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Thomas Alva Edison
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
Abraham Lincoln
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
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There comes a special moment in everyone’s life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission – a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he finds greatness. It is his finest hour.
Sir Winston Churchill
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Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
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You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Henry Ford
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Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas Alva Edison
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Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mahatma Mohandas Gandhi
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau
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Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
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That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William Boetcker
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The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman
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I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry Truman
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
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The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler
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Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Plato
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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Ken Hakuta
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
Krishnamurti
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I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
Harry Truman
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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Albert Camus
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
Eric Hoffer
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There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Frederick Collins
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Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Bill Cosby
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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
Wendell Johnson
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A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
John Locke
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For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
Theodore Roosevelt
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A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
Sidney Greenberg
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The greatest obstacle to your success is probably you.
Frank Tyger
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Booker Washington
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If you succeed in life, you must do it in spite of the efforts of others to pull you down. There is nothing in the idea that people are willing to help those who help themselves. People are willing to help a man who can't help himself, but as soon as a man is able to help himself, and does it, they join in making his life as uncomfortable as possible.
Edgar Watson Howe
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Most barriers to your success are man-made. And most often, you're the man who made them.
Frank Tyger
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Let no one or anything stand between you and the difficult task, let nothing deny you this rich chance to gain strength by adversity, confidence by mastery, success by deserving it. Do it better each time. Do it better than anyone else can do it.
Harlow Curtice
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Every man has a secret ambition: to outsmart horses, fish, and women.
Mark Twain
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Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days, but it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.
Edward Butler
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Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
Charles Buxton
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If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.
John Rockefeller
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You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
Jim Rohn
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Many people have the ambition to succeed; they may even have special aptitude for their job. And yet they do not move ahead. Why? Perhaps they think that since they can master the job, there is no need to master themselves.
John Stevenson
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Phillips Brooks
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If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time.
Brian Tracy
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Everyday do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
Doug Firebaugh
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Progress, however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
Samuel Smiles
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Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring about right results.
James Allen
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The reason why most people face the future with apprehension instead of anticipation is because they don't have it well designed.
Jim Rohn
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I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper and then put them in my mouth.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson
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Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Martin Tupper
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. You become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.
Aristotle
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Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
Thomas Hobbes
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The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose.
Heda Bejar
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Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James
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We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win.
Edward Gibbon
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The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.
David Jordan
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Rabbi Abraham Heschel
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The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Arnold Toynbee
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The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt
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It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Bishop Richard Cumberland
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
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To will is to select a goal, determine a course of action that will bring one to that goal, and then hold to that action till the goal is reached. The key is action.
Michael Hanson
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