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Intellectual Quote

2009-05-20T20:20:00.000-07:00

Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental; as, intellectual
powers, activities, etc.

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Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having
capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized
by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.

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Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for,
the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual
employments.

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Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual
philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.

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The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
ntellectual Quotes Quotations Quote of the Day Members Quote books
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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
View quotes by George Meredith
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself (Carnets)
View quotes by Albert Camus
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Great sport has intellectual beauty.
View quotes by R Carlisle
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It doesn't stand up to huge intellectual scrutiny.
View quotes by Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
View quotes by Leonardo Da Vinci
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An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more
interesting than sex.
View quotes by Aldous Huxley
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Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
View quotes by Ambrose Bierce
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Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.
View quotes by Jim Courier
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In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the
intellectual habits
View quotes by Robert Hall
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George Bush's political, intellectual and other shortcomings cannot be
restricted to one sentence.
View quotes by Emilio Botin
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The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers
to write history with sword and blood.
View quotes by Eric Hoffer
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Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions
at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training.
View quotes by Paul Chambers
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There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that 'life
is just one damned thing after another.' Human affairs do not become
intelligible until they are seen as a whole.
View quotes by Arnold Toynbee
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The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself
most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.
View quotes by Robertson Davies
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life-blood of real
civilisation (English Social History)
View quotes by G M Trevelyan
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Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness,
right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the
fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a
worldwide depression all by myself.
View quotes by Herbert Hoover
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The fundamentalists, by 'knowing' the answers before they start, and
then forcing nature into the straitjacket of their discredited
preconceptions, lie outside the domain of science-or of any honest
intellectual inquiry.
View quotes by Stephen Jay Gould
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Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the
consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins
in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
View quotes by Phyllis McGinley
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“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world,
the most difficult and the most intellectual”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854 -1900)
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“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his
intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can
do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854 -1900)

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“Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a
dissipation, and is its own highest reward.”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself”
Albert Camus quotes (French Novelist, Essayist and Playwright, 1957
Nobel Prize for Literature, 1913-1960)
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“To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things
eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.”
Saint Augustine quotes (Ancient Roman Christian Theologian and Bishop
of Hippo from 396 to 430. One of the Latin Fathers of the Church. 354 -430)
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“The intellectual advancement of man depends on how often he can
exchange an old superstition for a new truth”
Robert Green Ingersoll quotes (American Statesman and Orator, noted for
his broad range of culture and his defense of atheism. 1833-1899)
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“The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition
of facts but learning how to make facts live.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes (American Physician, Poet, Writer,
Humorist and Professor at Harvard, 1809-1894)
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“By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating
the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and
inculcated by methods which are emotional or authoritarian, not
intellectual”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
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“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more
interesting than sex.”
Aldous Huxley quotes (English Novelist and Critic, 1894-1963)
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“The action required to sustain human life is primarily
intellectual: everything man needs has to be discovered by his mind
and produced by his effort”
Ayn Rand quotes (Russian born American Writer and Novelist, 1905- 1982)
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“I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.”
Woody Allen quotes (American Actor, Author, Screenwriter and Film
Director, b.1935)

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“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats
nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for
hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".”
Sydney J. Harris quotes (American Journalist and Author, He wrote a
syndicated column, Strictly Personal, from 1944-86. 1917-1986)
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“My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses
me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived
from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to
every kind of cruelty and hatred.”
Albert Einstein quotes
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“Intellectual passion drives out sensuality”
Leonardo da Vinci quotes (Italian draftsman, Painter, Sculptor,
Architect and Engineer whose genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. 1452-1519)
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“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”
Albert Camus quotes (French Novelist, Essayist and Playwright, 1957
Nobel Prize for Literature, 1913-1960)
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“It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual
health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals
unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and
abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne quotes
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“The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is
nevertheless an intellectual vice”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)
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“I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of
intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to
educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.”
Groucho Marx quotes (American Comedian, Actor and Singer, 1890-1977)
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“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at
death”
Albert Einstein quotes
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“Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic
creation”
Charles Frankel quotes
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“No man, who continues to add something to the material,
intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is
left long without proper reward.”
Booker T. Washington quotes
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“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of
intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.”
Joseph Campbell quotes Similar Quotes. About: God quotes.
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“Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth”
Bruno Bettelheim quotes
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“Love and respect woman. Look to her not only for comfort, but
for strength and inspiration and the doubling of your intellectual and
moral powers. Blot out from your mind any idea of superiority; you
have none.”
Giuseppe Mazzini quotes
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“Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness
that some things are really important, others not; and that
the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.”
Christopher Morley quotes
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“Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and
you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength,
the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can
reach God.”
Swami Vivekananda quotes
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“Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of
man has ever touched”
Francis Schaeffer quotes
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“I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for
intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own
economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their
influence in the political field.”
Albert Einstein quotes

Friendship Quote

2009-04-16T03:58:00.000-07:00

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same.
Anonymous

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This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, love
Anonymous

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Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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A mere friend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.
Russian Proverb

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Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Eugene Benge

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Your worst enemy could be your best friend, and your best friend your worst enemy.
Bob Marley
1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist

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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Chinese Proverb

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With true friends...even water drunk together is sweet enough.
Chinese Proverb

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Without friends no one would choose to live.
Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher
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To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.
Chinese Proverb
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Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
Scottish Proverb

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I love America because America trusts me. When I go into a shop to buy a pair of shoes I am not asked to produce my Identity Card. I love it because my mail is not censored. My phone is not tapped. My conversation with friends is not reported to the secret police.
Janina Atkins
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The road to a friend's house is never long
Danish Proverb

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Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself,respect.
Oren Arnold

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Never shall I forget the times I spent with you; continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
Ludwig van Beethoven

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Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man.
Joseph Joubert
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There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
Donald J. Adams
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A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
Apocrypha

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Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you.
Yassir Arafat

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A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Arabian Proverb

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He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.
Source Unknown

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One who's our friend is fond of us; one who's fond of us isn't necessarily our friend.
Geoffrey F. Albert

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To your friends, you're like a trash bag; they'll use you for a little bit, then they'll throw you out.
Adam R. Gwizdala

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Tell me who's your friend and I'll tell you who you are.
Russian Proverb

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------If if you haven't learned what friendship means then you haven't learned anything
Muhamid alli

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The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task: Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe

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A friend is someone who sees through you and still enjoys the view.
Wilma Askinas

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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
St. Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274, Italian Scholastic Philosopher and Theologian

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To the query, ''What is a friend?'' his reply was ''A single soul dwelling in two bodies.''
Aristotle
BC 384-322, Greek Philosopher

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I need not fear my enemies because the most they can do is attack me. I need not fear my friends because the most they can do is betray me. But I have much to fear from people who are indifferent.
Russian Proverb

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The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Arabian Proverb

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For believe me, in this world which is ever slipping from under our feet, it is the prerogative of friendship to grow old with one's friends.
Arthur S. Hardy

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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.
Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.
Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Sir Francis Bacon

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A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.
Miguel De Cervantes
1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet

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Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate--and quickly.
Robert Anson Heinlein

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A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
Thomas Fuller, M. D

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Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.
Nicholson Baker
1957-, American Author
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Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.
Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer site
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Age Quote

2009-03-25T21:03:00.000-07:00

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
Doug Larson
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. Mark Twain
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I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall
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It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle
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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Samuel Ullman
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You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.
Douglas MacArthur
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Chili Davis
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In youth the days are short and the years are long; in old age the years are short and the days long.
Nikita Ivanovich Panin
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Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone.
Jim Fiebig
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In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
E.B. White
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The years teach much which the days never knew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
Sam Ewing
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. George Bernard Shaw
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There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
John Mortimer
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Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
Maurice Chevalier, New York Times, 9 October 1960
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Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!.... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his hands are mutes.
Charles Dickens
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Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. Author Unknown
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A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experiences and memories. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings 1939-1944, translated from French by Norah Purcell
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To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.
Alan Bleasdale
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
Pearl S. Buck
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Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life. ~Robert Southey, The Doctor
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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
John Barrymore
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How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?
Satchel Paige
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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
Charles Dickens
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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
Jerry M. Wright
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
Mark Twain
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Bob Hope
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Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
Caryn Leschen
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Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
Victor Hugo
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Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net.
Franklin Adams

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Everyone is the age of their heart.
Guatemalan Proverb
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There is always a lot to be thankful for, if you take the time to look. For example, I'm sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.
Author Unknown
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
Dorothy Fulheim
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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going. J.B. Priestly
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.
Author Unknown
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Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote

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By the time I have money to burn, my fire will have burnt out. Author Unknown
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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
Logan Pearsall Smith
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We are young only once, after that we need some other excuse.
Author Unknown
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The key to successful aging is to pay as little attention to it as possible.
Judith Regan
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The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. Mark Twain
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It's sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.
Brigitte Bardot
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
Robert Browning
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. Herbert Asquith
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Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
Voltaire
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There's no such thing as too late. That's why they invented death. From the movie Out to Sea
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I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Age is opportunity no less,
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Morituri Salutamus
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (Thanks Janice!)
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The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made.
Edmund Waller
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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
Doris Lessing
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There is still no cure for the common birthday.
John Glenn
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Does age poison us, or do we poison age?
Astrid Alauda
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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
Martin Buxbaum
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An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie, news summaries, 9 March 1954
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Grandchildren don't make a man feel old; it's the knowledge that he's married to a grandmother. G. Norman Collie
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You can't hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life.
Author Unknown
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. T.S. Eliot
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We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank A. Clark

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Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.
Sara Teasdale
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None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David Thoreau
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I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth's gravitational pull has become since 1990.
Dave Barry
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Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Quoted by Francis Bacon, Apothegm
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To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Henri Amiel
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We've put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank A. Clark
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Age swallows our childhood.
Jareb Teague
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First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you foret to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.
Leo Rosenberg
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The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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When it comes to staying young, a mind-lift beats a face-lift any day. Marty Bucella
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
Saint Aurelius Augustine
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
T.S. Eliot, quoted in Time, 23 October 1950
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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
Charles Dickens
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From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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You know you've reached middle age when a doctor, not a policeman, tells you to slow down, all you exercise are your prerogatives and it takes you longer to rest than to get tired.
Author Unknown
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie
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A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier
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We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. Charles Lamb
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It is autumn; not without
But within me is the cold.
Youth and spring are all about;
It is I that have grown old.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Autumn Within"
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
Samuel Butler, Notebooks
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Don't worry about avoiding temptation - as you grow older, it starts avoiding you.
Author Unknown
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Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. Leon Trotsky (Lev Davidovich Bronstein), Diary in Exile, 1935
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At 20 years of age the will reigns; at 30 the wit; at 40 the judgment. Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac
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The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.
Marya Mannes, More in Anger, 1958
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What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years.
John Fischer
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Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.
Attributed to John Wagner
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A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
Oliver W. Holmes, Sr.
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Old Time, who changes all below,
To wean men gently for the grave.
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.
Graham Greene
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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
Confucius

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When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.
Laurence Olivier
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As a graduate of the Zsa Zsa Gabor School of Creative mathematics, I honestly do not know how old I am.
Erma Bombeck

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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. Author Unknown
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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.
Author Unknown
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The other day a man asked me what I thought was the best time of life. "Why," I answered without a thought, "now."
David Grayson
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Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.
Billy Casper, about golf's Senior Tour
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. Truman Capote
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.
Author Unknown
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When you become senile, you won't know it.
Bill Cosby
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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
Jean Rostand
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The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Youth disserves; middle age conserves; old age preserves.
Martin H. Fischer
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One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you've become harmless.
Liz Smith
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Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
Emily Dickinson
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In a dream you are never eighty.
Anne Sexton
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Old men are fond of giving good advice, to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.
François La Rochefoucauld
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Middle age is when a narrow waist and a broad mind begin to change places.
Author Unknown
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Middle age is youth without its levity, and age without decay.
Daniel Defoe
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There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
Franklin P. Adams
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You can live to be a hundred if you give up all things that make you want to live to be a hundred. Allen
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I don't do alcohol anymore - I get the same effect just standing up fast.
Author Unknown
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Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.
Donald Justice, "Men at Forty"
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Age is a prison from which we cannot escape.
Morrow Bourne
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
Don Marquis
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An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clasp its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress.
William Butler Yeats, Sailing to Byzantium

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot

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I'm not 40, I'm eighteen with 22 years experience.
Author Unknown
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Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H.L. Mencken

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Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy. Author Unknown
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Before thirty, men seek disease; after thirty, diseases seek men. Chinese Proverb
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Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.
Jean Rhys
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson
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Age attacks when we least expect it.
Carrie Latet
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Old age ain't no place for sissies.
Bette Davis

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The last birthday that's any good is 23.
Andy Rooney
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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.
Dan Bennett
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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death.
William Allen White
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Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
Edward Young, Night Thoughts

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Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Attributed to John Wagner
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As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M.D. after them.
Arnold Palmer
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It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. Jennifer Yane
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Middle age is when we can do just as much as ever - but would rather not.
Author Unknown
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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo
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In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage - so long are you young. When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old.
Douglas MacArthur
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Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear;
'Tis but the funeral of the former year.
Alexander Pope
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
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The elderly don't drive that badly; they're just the only ones with time to do the speed limit.
Jason Love

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It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star Game and an Old-timers' Game.
Vin Scully
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It seems no more than right that men should seize time by the forelock, for the rude old fellow, sooner or later, pulls all their hair out.
George Dennison Prentice, Prenticeana, 1860
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All diseases run into one, old age.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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The number one factor in aging is burdens. Your burdens, or how you carry them, make you old. Scarlett Bene
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The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me. I grow older.
Li Po
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In dog years, I'm dead.
Author Unknown
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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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If youth but know,
And old age only could.
Henri Estienne
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Old age puts more wrinkles in our minds than on our faces.
Michel de Montaigne
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain
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Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.
Dave Barry
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The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.
Mortimer Collins
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A man is as old as he's feeling,
A woman as old as she looks.
Mortimer Collins
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When the problem is not so much resisting temptation as finding it, you may just be getting older.
Author Unknown
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Henry Ford
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I am getting old and the sign of old age is that I begin to philosophize and ponder over problems which should not be my concern at all.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails. It depends on you. Ravensara Noite

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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
T. S. Eliot
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Old age is a shipwreck.
Charles de Gaulle

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The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn't have when you were young you no longer want.
L.S. McCandless
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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
Bernard Berenson
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Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.
Author Unknown
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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We thought we were running away from the grown-ups, and now we're the grown-ups.
Margaret Atwood
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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
P.G. Wodehouse
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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
Harold Coffin
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You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.
Lillian Gish
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Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old.
Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711
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It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.
Seigneur de Saint-Evremond, 1696
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Age is like the newest version of a software - it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had.
Carrie Latet
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When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Hugo L. Black
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In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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Adulthood is when the ghosts of childhood appear.
Holden Rinehart
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When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects, 1711
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They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression.
Rick Majerus
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We are only young once. That is all society can stand.
Bob Bowen
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There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
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I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles.
Edward Grey
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The lost leaves measure our years; they are gone as the days are gone. Richard Jefferies, The Life of the Fields, 1908

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Regular naps prevent old age, especially if you take them while driving.
Author Unknown
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I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.
Phyllis Diller
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Growing old is a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form. Andre Maurois
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Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.
Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby

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You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
George Burns
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What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire
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You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
Bonnie Prudden
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The trick is growing up without growing old.
Casey Stengel
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It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are. Raymond A. Michel in The Leaf

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The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
Leon Edel
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The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
Jack Nicklaus
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You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
Timothy Leary
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It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso
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The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Joan Collins
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I never dared be radical when young
For fear it would make me conservative when old.
Robert Frost
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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. Logan Pearsall Smith
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Our bodies are the burial grounds of dead time. ~T.A. Sachs, to "Time! where didst thou those years inter, Which I have seene decease?"
William Habington
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Middle age is when your classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you
Bennett Cerf
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I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.
Sheila Kaye-Smith
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There is always some specific moment when we realize our youth is gone; but years after, we know it was much later.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

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When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.
Victor Hugo
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To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.
Bill Vaughn
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
Kurt Vonnegut
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At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?
Jules Feiffer
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Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much.
Margaret Willour
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The idea is to die young as late as possible.
Ashley Montagu

Freedom Quote

2009-02-07T21:01:00.000-08:00

“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.”
Thucydides quotes (Ancient Greek historians and author, 460-404bc)
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“He who is brave is free.”
Seneca quotes (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)

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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine
of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)

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“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)

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“I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quotes (French Pilot, Writer and Author of 'The Little Prince', 1900-1944)
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“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
Voltaire quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors, 1694-1778)
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“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.”
Stephen R. Covey quotes
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
ReadyWriter Albert Camus quotes (French Novelist, Essayist and Playwright, 1957
Nobel Prize for Literature, 1913-1960)
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“You have the freedom to choose your actions, you don't have the freedom to choose the consequences of your actions”
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“We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun.”
William Glasser quotes ( , b.1925)
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“Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death.”
Gen Michel Aoun quotes
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“There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and
powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions”
Anais Nin quotes (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903- 1977)
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“Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which he wants to be.”
Ayn Rand quotes (Russian born American Writer and Novelist, 1905-1982)
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“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
Benjamin Franklin quotes (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer,
Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)
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The fact, in short, is that freedom, to be meaningful in an organized society must consist of an amalgam of hierarchy of freedoms and restraints.
~Samuel Hendel
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He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition;
for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
~Thomas Paine
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of
free men breaks through determinism and opens up new roads. ~Charles de Gaulle
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Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be
daily earned and refreshed - else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,... of searching and experimenting,... of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical,
religious, social, and even political. ~Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed, 1950
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Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree. ~Thomas Campbell
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
~Napoleon Bonaparte
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Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the
freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the
natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard
yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of
people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.
~Gerard K. O'Neill, 2081
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Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln
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I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
~Adlai Stevenson, speech, Detroit, 1952
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It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.
~Dick Cheney
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We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to
find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls.
~Robert J. McCracken
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You have freedom when you're easy in your harness. ~Robert Frost
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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail? ~Ralph Waldo
Emerson
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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the
fatigue of supporting it. ~Thomas Paine
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In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. ~Franklin D.
Roosevelt
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We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"? ~Mignon
McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. ~Moshe Dayan
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There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. ~Charles Kingsley
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No one is free when others are oppressed. ~Author Unknown
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Nations grown corrupt
Love bondage more than liberty;
Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty.
~John Milton
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Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and
mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral
law.... ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two
Brothers, 1827

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Freedom means choosing your burden. ~Hephzibah Menuhin
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty
. ~H.L. Mencken, Minority
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We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.
~Eric Hoffer
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Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves. ~Author Unknown
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Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you
decide how to respond. ~Jeffrey Borenstein
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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Freedom is not enough.
~Lyndon B. Johnson
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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the
subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
~Woodrow Wilson
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The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of
our own opinions. ~Adlai Stevenson, speech, New York City, 28 August 1952
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We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ~William
Faulkner
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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvani,
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of
darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, - Necessity and Free Will.
~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"
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We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of
forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
~Felix Frankfurter
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O Liberty...! is it well
To leave the gates unguarded?
~Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
~Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1883
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Let freedom never perish in your hands. ~Joseph Addison
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Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains? ~Francis Wright, 1828
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. ~George Washington
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by
gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden
usurpations.
~James Madison, speech, Virginia Convention, 1788
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Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
~Will Rogers
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
~Mahatma Gandhi
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Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
~Theodore Roosevelt
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We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. ~Edward R. Murrow
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Freedom has a thousand charms to show,
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.
~William Cowper
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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling
assurances and the economy of effort which it brings.
~Walter Lippmann, A Preface to Morals, 1929
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The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.
~Daniel Webster
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Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. ~Albert Camus
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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy,
let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
~D.H. Lawrence, Classical American Literature, 1922
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I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery. ~Author Unknown
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Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.
~Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, 1888
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-
meaning but without understanding. ~Louis D. Brandeis
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When the People contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything for their Victory
but new Masters. ~George Savile
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Without freedom, no one really has a name. ~Milton Acorda
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A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.
~Baron de Montesquieu
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
~George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, "Maxims: Liberty and Equality," 1905
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. ~Edmund Burke
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We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate
themselves.
~Errico Malatesta, l'Agitazione, 18 June 1897

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Freedom is never free. ~Author Unknown
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We are free, truly free, when we don't need to rent our arms to anybody in order to
be able to lift a piece of bread to our mouths.
~Ricardo Flores Magon, speech, 31 May 1914
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Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition
that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is
worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had
learned to swim. ~Thomas Macaulay
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“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. quotes (American Baptist Minister and Civil-Rights Leader.
1929-1968)
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“We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be
educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the
educated are free”
Epictetus quotes (Greek philosopher associated with the Stoics, AD 55-c.135)

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“If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all”
Jacob Hornberger quotes
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“To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to
do with one's freedom”
Andre Gide quotes (French writer, humanist and moralist, 1947 nobel prize for
literature, 1869-1951)
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“Freedom lies in being bold.”
Robert Frost quotes (American poet, 1874-1963)
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“Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.”
Albert Camus quotes (French Novelist, Essayist and Playwright, 1957 Nobel Prize for
Literature, 1913-1960)

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“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will
and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to
choose, to respond, to change.”
Stephen R. Covey quotes
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“There is no such thing as a little freedom. Either you are all free, or you are not free.”
Walter Cronkite quotes (American Journalist well known for his role as a television
news anchor, b.1916)
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“Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences”
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“All good things are wild, and free.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

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“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”
lstyd Bob Dylan quotes (American folksinger, b.1941)
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“A library is an arsenal of liberty.”
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“Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes
my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight
in depriving other human beings of that precious right.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine
of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)
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“Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves”
Friedrich Nietzsche quotes (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)
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“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”
George Orwell quotes (English Novelist and Essayist, 1903-1950)

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“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.”
santiz James Arthur Baldwin quotes (American Essayist, Playwright and Novelist, 1924-1987)
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“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.”
pjc1190 Chuck Palahniuk quotes (American freelance Journalist, Satirist and Novelist. b.1961)
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“I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that

you want to see. I want to knit you a sweater. I want to write you a love letter. I

want to make you feel better. I want to make you feel free.”
shell7587 Joni Mitchell quotes

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“Everyone pushes a falling fence”
Chinese Proverbs quotes
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“We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.”
Voltaire quotes (French Philosopher and Writer. One of the greatest of all French authors, 1694-1778)

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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought
which they seldom use.”
Soren Kierkegaard quotes (Danish Philosopher and Theologian, generally recognized as the first existentialist philosopher. 1813-1855)
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“The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy quotes (American 35th US President (1961-63), 1917-1963)
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“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”
Epictetus quotes (Greek philosopher associated with the Stoics, AD 55-c.135)

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“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the
Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
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“Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who
can labor in freedom.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and
general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

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“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.”
Robert A. Heinlein quotes (American science-fiction Writer, 1907-1988)

Business Quote (A-Z)

2009-02-02T03:17:00.000-08:00

[A] Do you believe so much in Alan Sugar that you'd give your wage to charity? If not, you're fired! Also quotes from Body Shop founder Anita Roddick.

[B] Microsoft founder Bill Gates thought 637Kb was all the memory you'd ever need. Tell that to my PC! Also quotes from Barclays Capital chief Bob Diamond, who could certainly afford a few!

[C] If you're an investment banker, you might be familiar with Charles Schwab and some other famous 'C' business people. If you buy birthday cards, you might be familiar with Clinton Lewin.

[D] Watched The Apprentice USA? Then you might be a fan of Donald Trump, the property billionaire. If you watch Dragons Den and are after business angel funding, then Doug Richard the technology entrepreneur might be a name you've encountered!

[E] Estee Lauder will be a familiar name if you're a fan of make up and things fragrant. British entrepreneur Emma Harrison is another successful businesswoman in this category.

[F] Fred Goodwin is in this category; if you work for RBS he's your boss. Cable chief Francesco Caio is also an 'F' business man.

[G] G's include fashion designer Gianni Versace - check out his page for a stylish quote. He famously said his jewellery was crap, but what of his quotes? Find out about Gerald Ratner

[H] Henry Ford II quotes, and other famous 'H' business people like high tech entrepreneur Hermann Hauser

[I] Ivan Massow, an entrepreneur, is in this category, whilst Iain Kirkwood is a business chief executive.

[J] The famous and successful businessman Jack Welch is a famous 'J' along with many other successful business people; whilst Jeff Randall is a journalist who talks about business.

[K] Ken Morrison of supermarket Morrisons fame is in this business section, whilst cricket fans will be familiar with the name Kerry Packer.

[L] Larry Page co-founder of internet phenomenon Google takes his place in this section, as does steel billionaries and Britain's richest man Lakshmi Mittal.

[M] Remember Martha Lane Fox, from a (last) minute ago? Mervyn King is a familiar name as Governor of the Bank of England.

[N] Nicola Horlick the so-called wonder woman of business is in this section. Rogue trader Nick Leeson was famous for bringing down Barings Bank.

[O] Oh no! No famous business O's!

[P] Philip Green, often pictured with his cigar, is the owner of BHS and pretty successful by any measure of wealth. Newspaper editor Piers Morgan knows a bit about business, too.

[Q] On cue, there is no famous 'Q'; air cargo shipping

[R] We were going to list Rachel Elnaugh, but then she had to sell up, so we've decided to fly high with Richard Branson, the owner of trains, planes and... mobile phones. Also Rudy Giuliani former mayor of the city that never sleeps, New York.

[S] Sergey Brin makes up the Google team. Now that was one business you'd have liked to buy into when they said 'we have an idea!' Also Marks and Spencers executive Stuart Rose

[T] Tony Robbins, the motivational speaker, is a famous businessman, is he your cup of 'T'? Tim Campbell became famous for winning business TV show The Apprentice.

[U] Alas, no famous 'U' business people... nothing to see here folks, move along...

[V] Victor Kiam is a famous American businessman in this category. Val Gooding is boss at health care company BUPA.

[W] Warren Buffett is one of famous 'W's on offer in this business section. Also chewing gum entrepreneur William Wrigley Jnr a household name for many!

[X] Know any famous businessmen or women with a name starting with 'X'? That's your challenge for today...

[Y] Why - there appear to be no famous 'Y's in this section

[Z] Zig Ziglar is a name that trips off the tongue, and closes our business section

INSPIRATIONAL BUSINESS QUOTE

Samuel Smiles: Inspirational Business Quote

A. P. Gouthey: Inspirational Business Quote
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.

Niccolo Machiavelli: Inspirational Business Quote
Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.

Lee Iacocca: Inspirational Business Quote
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Stephen R. Covey: Inspirational Business Quote
Management works in the system; leadership works on the system.

Kahlil Gibran: Inspirational Business Quote
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Edwin H. Stuart: Inspirational Business Quote
Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Walter Dill Scott: Inspirational Business Quote
Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity.

Gabriel Heatter: Inspirational Business Quote
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year; a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

Optimist Quote

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“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my
sails to always reach my destination.”
Jimmy Dean quotes

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“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can
start today and make a new ending.”
Maria Robinson quotes

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“Smile when it hurts most.”
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“May the love hidden deep inside your heart find the love
waiting in your dreams. May the laughter that you find in your
tomorrow wipe away the pain you find in your yesterdays.”
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“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a
while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”
Alex Tan quotes
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“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that
every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow
vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to
be.”
John Heywood quotes (English Playwright and Poet, 1497-1580)
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“If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never
think a negative thought.”
Peace Pilgrim quotes (American Teacher and Spiritual leader and Peace
Prophet, 1908-1981)

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“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”
AzSilver Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and
Critic, 1854-1900)
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“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can
be done rather than saying it can't be done.”
Bo Bennett quotes
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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an
optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill quotes
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“May the pain you have known and the conflict you have
experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new
situation with courage and optimism.”
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“Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is
droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854 -1900)

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“An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the
pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is
twice the size it needs to be”
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“A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist
is one who hopes they are.”
Chauncey Depew quotes
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“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it
to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
William Arthur Ward quotes
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“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push.
A smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things
are tough.”
Richard M. DeVos quotes
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“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be
done without hope and confidence.”
Helen Keller quotes
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“Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)
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“It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a
pessimist who is always right”

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“Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness”
Mark Twain quotes
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“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use
being anything else”
Winston Churchill quotes
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“The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch
eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.”
Robert Brault quotes
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“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist
stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose”
Kahlil Gibran quotes
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“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The
optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
Winston Churchill quotes
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“The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much;
if he is an optimist after it he knows too little”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

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“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist
because of will”
Antonio Gramsci quotes
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“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
Susan J. Bissonette quotes

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“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my
ship.”
Louisa May Alcott quotes
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“In the long run the pessimist may be proved right, but the
optimist has a better time on the trip.”
Daniel L. Reardon quotes

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“Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power”
William James quotes
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“A pessimist only sees the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a
philosopher sees both sides and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the
clouds at all--he's walking on them.”
Leonard L. Levinson quotes

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“Teaching is the greatest act of optimism”
Colleen Wilcox quotes

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“A pessimist is an optimist with experience”
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“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't
pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life
can restore your faith in yourself.”
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“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
Oscar Wilde quotes
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“An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise
person is colorblind.”
Albert Schweitzer quotes
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“Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the
foundation of courage and true progress.”
Nicholas Murray Butler quotes

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“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously.
If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity
of optimism.”
Oscar Wilde quotes
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“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your
house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is
inconvenience.”
Robert Fulghum quotes

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“Enter every activity without giving mental recognition to the
possibility of defeat. Concentrate on your strengths, instead of your
weaknesses... on your powers, instead of your problems.”
Paul J. Meyer quotes

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optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.
Author: Don Marquis
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Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful,
including what is ugly.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human
destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am
optimistic as to man.
Author: Albert Camus
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I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
Author: William Faulkner
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Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro
football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that
I'm going to complete every pass.
Author: Ron Jaworski
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When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent
working.
Author: John F. Kennedy
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Optimism is the opium of the people.
Kundera
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A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an
optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Author: Reginald B. Mansell
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... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of
reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw,
the seed of death.
Author: Anne Perry
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I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best
for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I
meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence.
I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.
Author: Alice Potter
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Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because,
whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he
himself appears convinced.
Author: Jonathan Swift
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Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to
Cape Canaveral.
Author: Anonymous
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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any
more games by being anything else.
Author: Earl Weaver
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The basis for optimism is sheer terror.
Author: Oscar Wilde
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I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
Author: Paul Fussell
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Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A
smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are
tough.
Author: Richard M DeVos
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You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the
gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It
should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Author: Robert Collier
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Few cases of eyestrain have been developed by looking on the bright
side of things.
Author: Anonymous
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Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
Author: Walter Winchell
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An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be
postponed.
Author: Kin Hubbard
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When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Author: Charled A. Beard
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible
worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Author: James Branch Cabell
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An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
Author: Don Marquis
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Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-
brown glasses.
Author: Charles Eliot
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Optimist: a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more
than a thousand pounds a year.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old
optimist.
Author: Mark Twain
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So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more
of it remains.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the
morning.
Author: Carl Sandburg
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The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of
today.
Author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being
anything else.
Author: Winston Churchill
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If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think
a negative thought
~Peace Pilgrim
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist
sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
~ Winston Churchill
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done
without hope and confidence.
~ Helen Keller
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It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist
who is always right
~ Unknown
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a
philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the
clouds at all - he's walking on them.
~ Leonard Louis Levinson
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An optimist is the human personification of spring.
~ Susan J. Bissonette
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~The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present,
but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others
have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the
future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a
pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is
color-blind.
~ Albert Schweitzer
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Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done
rather than saying it can't be done.
~ Bo Bennett
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Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness
~ Mark Twain
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The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser
in case you thought optimism was dead.
~ Robert Brault
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The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at
the thorns, oblivious to the rose
~ Kahlil Gibran
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to
change; the realist adjusts the sails.
~ William Arthur Ward
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Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A
smile. A word of optimism and hope. And you can do it when things are
tough.
~ Richard M. DeVos
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For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being
anything else
~ Winston Churchill
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An optimist is a person who sees only the lights in the picture,
whereas a pessimist sees only the shadows. An idealist, however, is
one who sees the light and the shadows, but in addition sees something
else: the possibility of changing the picture, of making the lights
prevail over the shadows.
~ Felix Adler
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I am glad I am an optimist. The pessimist is half-licked before he
starts.
~ Thomas A. Buckner
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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 Branch Caball
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Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects.
~ Norman Cousins
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
~ Havelock Ellis
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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
~ F Scott Fitzgerald
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Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant-the digitalis of failure.
~ Elbert Hubbard
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It was his optimism that Freud bequeathed to America and it was the
optimism of our youthfulness, our freedom from the sterner, sadder
tradition of Europe which enabled us to seize his gift.
~ Karl A. Menninger

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Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if
they're right.
~ James Reston
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Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and
good people will be drawn to you.
~ Mary Lou Retton
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It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
~ Lucimar Santos De Lima
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An optimist is a man who starts a crossword puzzle with a fountain pen.
~ Unknown
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Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled
~ Mark Twain
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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
~ Elbert Hubbard
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly
being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
~ George F. Will
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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A
pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
~ Bill Vaughan
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The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees
danger in every opportunity.
~ Winston Churchill
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May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced
give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation
with courage and optimism.
~ Unknown
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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. "
~ Winston Churchill
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The point of living and of being an optimist, is to be foolish
enough to believe the best is yet to come.
~ Peter Ustinov

Ability Quote

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“You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.”
Zig Ziglar quotes (American motivational Speaker and Author. )

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“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”
Harry F. Banks quotes

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“We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt”

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“A man of ability and the desire to accomplish something can do anything.”
Donald Kircher quotes

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“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.”
Rosalynn Carter quotes

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“Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”
Lou Holtz quotes (American Football coach, 1937-1980)

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“Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.”
Zig Ziglar quotes (American motivational Speaker and Author. )
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“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
Paul Gauguin quotes (French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1848-1903)

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“The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal”

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“Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, "Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.”
Anthony Robbins quotes (American advisor to leaders)

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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
1769-1821, French General, Emperor
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Just do what you do best.
Red Auerbach
1917-, American Basketball Coach
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
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I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill]
Arthur James Balfour
1848-1930, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister

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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
Agatha Christie
1891-1976, British Mystery Writer
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, ''I can't.''
Oswald Chambers
1874-1917 Scottish Preacher, Author
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Ability without honor is useless.
Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
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“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

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“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)

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“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice”
Kahlil Gibran quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)

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“We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.”

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“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”
Andre Malraux quotes (French Historian, Novelist and Statesman, 1901-1976)

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“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
Napoleon Bonaparte quotes (French General, Politician and Emperor (1804-14). 1769-1821)
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“The difference between one man and another is not mere ability - it is energy”
Thomas Arnold quotes

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“If I had more skill in what I'm attempting, I wouldn't need so much courage”
Ashleigh Brilliant quotes (English Author and Cartoonist, b.1933)
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“Success is that old ABC -- ability, breaks, and courage.”
Charles Luckman quotes (US architect and industrialist 1910-1999)

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“The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's

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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
Desiderius Erasmus
c.1466-1536, Dutch Humanist
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There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas Everett
American Hockey Player
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When my horse is running good, I don't stop to give him sugar.
William Faulkner
1897-1962, American Novelist
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Others have done it before me. I can, too.
Corporal John Faunce
American soldier
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Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
Malcolm S. Forbes
1919-1990, American Publisher, Businessman

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“Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.”
Thomas J. Watson, Sr. quotes
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“People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.”
George Allen quotes (American football Coach. Noted for his hard-driving work ethic. 1922-1990)

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“The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.”
François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)

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“Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.”
Alexander Haig quotes (American General, b.1924)
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“Enduring setbacks while maintaining the ability to show others the way to go forward is a true test of leadership.”
Nitin Nohria quotes

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“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”
Philemon Corrie Ten Boom quotes (Dutch Evangelist , 1892-1983)

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“The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.”
Jack Brymer quotes

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“The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains”
Napoleon Bonaparte quotes (French General, Politician and Emperor (1804-14). 1769-1821)

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“The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.”
Henry Ward Beecher quotes (Liberal US Congregational minister, 1813-1887)

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The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
1737-1794, British Historian
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Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
Oliver Goldsmith
1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright

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Man cannot live by incompetence alone.
Laurence J. Peter
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The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.
Earl Pitts
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Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.
John G. Pollard
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The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
John Ruskin
1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
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No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
John Ruskin

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“The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce”
Virginia Gildersleeve quotes
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“If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.”
Charles M. Schulz quotes (American cartoonist, 1922-2000)

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“Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture”
John Abbott quotes

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“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.”
Robert Frost quotes (American poet, 1874-1963)

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“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”
Rene Descartes quotes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Scientist, 1596-1650)

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“To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.”
François de la Rochefoucauld quotes (French classical author, leading exponent of the Maxime, 1613-1680)

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“I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.”
Charles M. Schwab quotes (American industrialist 1862-1939)

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“Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but what you should have accomplished with your ability.”
John Wooden quotes (American , b.1910)

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“All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room”
Blaise Pascal quotes (French Mathematician, Philosopher and Physicist, 1623-1662)

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“Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.”
John Wooden quotes (American , b.1910)

Husband Quote

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“There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

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“Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.”
Hoosier Farmer quotes

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“Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.”
Zig Ziglar quotes (American motivational Speaker and Author. )

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“The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

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“When a husband brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason.”
Molly McGee quotes

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“When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

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“All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day.”
Franklin P. Jones quotes (American Businessman, 1887-1929)

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“Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.”
Martin Luther quotes (German Priest and Scholar whose questioning of certain church practices led to the Protestant Reformation. 1483-1546)

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“My husband said it was him or the cat... I miss him sometimes.”

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“'Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!' And if you were my wife, I would drink it!”
Winston Churchill quotes (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)

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A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
Ogden Nash
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A woman who knows how to compose a soup or a salad that is perfectly harmonious in flavour ought to be clever at mixing together the sweet and harsh elements of a man's character, and she will understand how to charm and keep forever her husband's heart and soul.
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An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie

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At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
Barbara Bush

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For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it's time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma Bombeck
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He's the funniest, smartest person I know. It doesn't mean he doesn't bug me and I'm sure I bug him sometimes.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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I am happy to know that my husband regards me as a woman and a person.
Katherine Dunham
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I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin McLane Spock

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I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.
Julie Benz

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If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.
Richard Bach

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Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.
-- Hoosier Farmer
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar

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My husband and I have figured out a really good system about the housework: neither one of us does it.
Dottie Archibald

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My husband says I feed him like he's a god: every meal is a burnt offering.
Rhonda Hansome

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No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.
Elsa Einstein

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People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.
Erma Bombeck
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Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.
Mother Teresa

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That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger--not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose.
George Eliot

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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
Simone De Beauvoir

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What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can - don't disappoint him.
Alan Beck

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When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

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When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“I got rid of my husband. The cat was allergic.”
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“The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open”
Groucho Marx quotes (American Comedian, Actor and Singer, 1890-1977)

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“When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.”
Hitopadesa quotes

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“One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.”
Benjamin Franklin quotes (American Statesman, Scientist, Philosopher, Printer, Writer and Inventor. 1706-1790)

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“When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

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“A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.”

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“I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.”
Marie Corelli quotes

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“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.”
Agatha Christie quotes (English Detective, Novelist and Playwright, 1890-1976)

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“A good wife makes a good husband”

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“Sometimes I think [my husband] is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy, then I'm everything I want to be.”
Angelina Jolie quotes (American Actress, b.1975)

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I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
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Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love.
Virgil
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Pure love produces pure nonsense.
Jonathan Klinger
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
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A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.
Rupert Brooke
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Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia
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When you love someone, all your saved up wishes start coming out.
Elizabeth Bowen
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There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Sand
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Love is first friendship and then commitment.
Jacques Pierre Ribault
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You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
Julie de Lespinasse
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Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction
Antoine de Saint-

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“If we must lose wife or husband when we live to our highest right, we lose an unhappy marriage as well, and we gain ourselves. But if a marriage is born between two already self-discovered, what a lovely adventure begins, hurricanes and all.”
Richard Bach quotes (American Writer, author of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull', b.1936)

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“Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.”
Marquis De Sade quotes (French nobleman and Novelist whose perverse sexual preferences and erotic writings gave rise to the term sadism. 1740-1814)

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“A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it”
H. H. Munro quotes (Burman born English Novelist and short-story Writer (under pseudonym Saki), 1870-1916)

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“At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but just as soon as she gets one, she wants everything else in the world”
Elbert Hubbard quotes (American editor, publisher and writer, 1856-1915)

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“Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.”
W. C. Fields quotes (American Comic and Actor, 1880-1946)

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“Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.”
Rita Rudner quotes (American Writer and Comedian, b.1955 Miami, Florida, USA)

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“A husband and wife ought to continue united so long as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley quotes (English Romantic Poet whose passionate search for personal love and social justice was gradually channeled from overt actions into poems that rank with the greatest in the English language. 1792-1822)

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“To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.”
Simone de Beauvoir quotes (French Writer and feminist, 1908-1986)

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“Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914)
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“My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.”
Rita Rudner quotes (American Writer and Comedian, b.1955 Miami, Florida, USA)

Wives Quote

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“Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough”
Groucho Marx quotes (American Comedian, Actor and Singer, 1890-1977)

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“I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.”
Rodney Dangerfield quotes (American Comedian, 1921-2004)

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“A good wife makes a good husband”

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“No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.”
Harold Macmillan quotes (British politician, 1894-1986)

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“All married women are not wives”
Japanese Proverb quotes

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“A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife”
Thomas Fuller quotes (British Clergyman and Writer, one of the most prolific authors of the 17th century. 1608-1661)

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“There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy quotes (Russian moral Thinker, Novelist and Philosopher, notable for his influence on Russian literature and politics. 1828-1910)

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“If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.”
Thomas Fuller quotes (British Clergyman and Writer, one of the most prolific authors of the 17th century. 1608-1661)

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“Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first”
Billy Sunday quotes (American Evangelist, 1862-1935)

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“It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.”
Eleanor Roosevelt quotes
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Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar
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"Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!" "And if you were my wife, I would drink it!"
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A man that had a wife with such a wit, he might say "Wit, whither, wilt?"
Winnifred C. Jardine
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“All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little”
Oliver Goldsmith quotes (Irish born British Essayist, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1730-1774)
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“An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.”
Ogden Nash quotes (American Writer of humorous poetry who won a large following for his audacious verse. 1902-1971)

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"The last word" is the most dangerous of infernal machines; and husband and wife should no more fight to get it than they would struggle for the possession of a lighted bomb-shell”
Douglas Jerrold quotes (English Humorist, Playwright and Journalist, 1803-1857)

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“This is the way to kill a wife; with kindness.”
William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

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“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.”
Sacha Guitry quotes (French Actor and Playwright, 1885-1957)

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“Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes”
Thomas Dewar quotes

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“My wife's in judge of me, Murdered in cold blood is what I'm gonna be, I ain't been home since Friday night, And now my wife Is comin' after me”
John Entwistle quotes

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“A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.”
Jacob Epstein quotes

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“Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order, which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology”
Muriel Spark quotes

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“We have mistresses for pleasure, concubines to care for our daily body’s needs and wives to bear us legitimate children and to be faithful guardians of our households.”
heloise1 Demosthenes quotes (Considered to be the greatest orator of ancient Greece 384-322)

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She would rather be an old man's darling than a young man's warling.
William Harrison Ainsworth

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Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon

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Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll, There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road, An' her love, voe the jay o' my soul.
William Barnes
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And while the wicket falls behind Her steps, I thought if I could find A wife I need not blush to show I've little further now to go.
William Barnes
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My fond affection thou hast seen, Then judge of my regret To think more happy thou hadst been If we had never met! And has that thought been shared by thee? Ah, no! that smiling cheek Proves more unchanging love for me Than labor'd words could speak.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
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Without thee I am all unblessed, And wholly blessed in thee alone.
George W. Bethune
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If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers.
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Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour onto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
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A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
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She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
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So bent on self-sanctifying,-- That she never thought of trying To save her poor husband as well.
Robert Williams Buchanan

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In thy face have I seen the eternal.
Baron Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen

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Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit, or I'd break her heart.
Robert Burns
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She is a winsome wee thing, She is a handsome wee thing, She is a bonny wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine.
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Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.
William Congreve
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What is there in the vale of life Half so delightful as a wife, When friendship, love, and peace combine To stamp the marriage-bond divine?
William Cowper
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The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
George Crabbe
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Oh! 'tis a precious thing, when wives are dead, To find such numbers who will serve instead: And in whatever state a man be thrown, 'Tis that precisely they would wish their own.
George Crabbe
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In every mess I find a friend, In every port a wife.
Charles Dibdin
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It's my girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.
Charles Dickens
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You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms, With all the tenderness of wifely love.
John Dryden
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Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
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An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.
Benjamin Franklin
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He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.
Thomas Fuller
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If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.
Kirk Douglas
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The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
Lewis Thomas
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When a man opens the car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.
Prince Philip Edinburgh
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Women will never be as successful as men because they have no wives to advise them.
Dick Van Dyke
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Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
Groucho Marx
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She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings.
Bill Cosby
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A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.
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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl -- and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to -- which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
Queen Victoria

Choice Quote

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Denis Waitley
There are two primary choices in life; to accept conditions as they exist, or
accept the responsibility for changing them.
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Benjamin Franklin
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety
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Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”
Shaquille ONeal quotes
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“There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only
reward is that it's easy.”

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“It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.”
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“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
Joanne Kathleen Rowling quotes (English Writer, author of Harry Potter, b. b.1965)

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“I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it's only a choice of attitude.”
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“If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.”
Robert Fritz quotes
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“Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.”
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“When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels”
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“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what
leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.”
Buddha quotes (Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483
B.C.)
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“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist,
551-479 BC)

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“When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.”
William James quotes (American Philosopher and Psychologist, leader of the philosophical movement of Pragmatism, 1842-1910)
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“There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no
happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

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“While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.”
Stephen R. Covey quotes
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“A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him.”
Alexander Solzenitsyn quotes
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“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process
never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
Eleanor Roosevelt quotes (American United Nations Diplomat, Humanitarian and First
Lady (1933-45), wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US president. 1884-1962)

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“Man is a being with free will; therefore, each man is potentially good or
evil, and it's up to him and only him (through his reasoning mind) to decide which
he wants to be.”
Ayn Rand quotes (Russian born American Writer and Novelist, 1905-1982)
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“The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation,
that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements”
Anais Nin quotes (French born American Author of novels and short stories, 1903- 1977)

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“Life is a sum of all your choices.”
Albert Camus quotes (French Novelist, Essayist and Playwright, 1957 Nobel Prize for
Literature, 1913-1960)

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“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what
you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”
Kofi Annan quotes (Ghanaian diplomat, seventh secretary-general of the United Nations, 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.)
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“Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.”
Richard Bach quotes (American Writer, author of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull', b.1936)
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“Take care, don't fight, and remember: if you do not choose to lead, you will
forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a
difference, if you choose to do so.”
J. Michael Straczynski quotes (American Producer and director for the television
industry, b.1954)

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“Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of
the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise”
Stephen R. Covey quotes

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“Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will
and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to
choose, to respond, to change.”
Stephen R. Covey quotes
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“Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering
them for the rest of our lives.”
Richard Bach quotes (American Writer, author of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull', b.1936)

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“It is the ability to choose which makes us human.”
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“We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.”
Thomas Merton quotes (American and Trappist Monk t Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in
Trappist, Kentucky, 1915-1968)

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“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a
choice. To be or not to be.”
pjc1190 Chuck Palahniuk quotes (American freelance Journalist, Satirist and
Novelist. b.1961)

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“It's choice--not chance--that determines your destiny.”
Michellee Jean Nidetch quotes

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“What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness
to choose life.”
Leo F. Buscaglia quotes (American guru, tireless advocate of the power of love,
1924-1998)
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“Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.”
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“We can try to avoid making choices by doing nothing, but even that is a decision.”
Gary Collins quotes
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“I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.”
Marlo Thomas quotes (American Actress, b.1937)
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“I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra quotes (Spanish writer, author of the masterwork 'El
quijote', 1547-1616)
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“Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn
them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.”
Richard Bach quotes (American Writer, author of 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull',
b.1936)

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“Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took
the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference”
Robert Frost quotes (American poet, 1874-1963)

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“Don't you ever wonder maybe if you took a left turn instead of a right you
could be someone different?”
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“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the
choices one makes ... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”
Eleanor Roosevelt quotes (American United Nations Diplomat, Humanitarian and First
Lady (1933-45), wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd US president. 1884-1962)
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“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will
best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its
environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they
holding you back?”
W. Clement Stone quotes (American best selling Author and Founder of Combined
Insurance Co (now a part of Aon Corp.), 1902-2002)
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“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
Kahlil Gibran quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and
Poet. 1883-1931)

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“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain
of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.”
kburie Jim Rohn quotes (American Speaker and Author. He is famous for motivational
audio programs for Business and Life. )

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John Wayne: Quotes about Choice
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean.
It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned
something from yesterday.
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Kahlil Gibran: Quotes about Choice
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
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Frank Swinnerton: Quotes about Choice
We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the
most superior being of our acquaintance.
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Leo Buscaglia: Quotes about Choice
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to
choose life.
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Edgar A. Guest: Quotes about Choice
You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; you are
the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind.
Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you
are.

Music Quote

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Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
Thomas Fuller

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A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
~Leopold Stokowski
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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
~Berthold Auerbach

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All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
~Thomas Carlyle

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard

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If the King loves music, it is well with the land.
~Mencius

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Without music life would be a mistake.
~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
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If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
~Gustav Mahler

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Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?
~Michael Torke

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And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done

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He who sings scares away his woes.
~Cervantes

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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
~Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

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Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.
~Benjamin Disraeli

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Music is what feelings sound like.
~Author Unknown
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There's music in the sighing of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears:
Their earth is but an echo of the spheres.
~Lord Byron

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Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.
~Henri Rabaud

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Music is the poetry of the air.
~Richter

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If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
Sydney Smith

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There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.
~William P. Merrill
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If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.
~Doménico Cieri Estrada
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Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
~Henry David Thoreau

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
~Ludwig van Beethoven
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I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.
~H.A. Overstreet
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My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.
~Edward Elgar

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Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.
~Charlie Parker

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Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
~William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself.
~Henry Ward Beecher
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Play the music, not the instrument.
~Author Unknown
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Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ~Ludwig van Beethoven
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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
~Robert Fripp
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[An intellectual] is someone who can listen to the "William Tell Overture" without thinking of the Lone Ranger.
~John Chesson
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Music's the medicine of the mind.
~John A. Logan

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You are the music while the music lasts.
~T.S. Eliot

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Music is the universal language of mankind.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer
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Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.
~Ezra Pound

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He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.
~Robert Browning
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You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket
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The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet.
~Oliver Herford
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What we provide is an atmosphere... of orchestrated pulse which works on people in a subliminal way. Under its influence I've seen shy debs and severe dowagers kick off their shoes and raise some wholesome hell.
~Meyer Davis, about his orchestra
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
~Victor Hugo

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...where music dwells
Lingering - and wandering on as loth to die...
~William Wordsworth, "Within King's College Chapel, Cambridge"
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Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.
~Buffy Sainte-Marie
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Music is an outburst of the soul.
~Frederick Delius
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Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory.
~Oscar Wilde

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In music the passions enjoy themselves.
~Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886
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Music is what life sounds like.
~Eric Olson
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If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound. ~John Cage
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Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.
~Arnold Bennett

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Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.
~Robert G. Ingersoll

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Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.
~Alphonse de Lamartine
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds:
And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased
With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave;
Some chord in unison with what we hear
Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
~William Cowper
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When words leave off, music begins.
~Heinrich Heine

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Truly to sing, that is a different breath.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.
~Leo Tolstoy

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There is no truer truth obtainable
By Man than comes of music.
~Robert Browning
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Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
~Aaron Copland

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What passion cannot music raise and quell!
~John Dryden

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The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.
~Leonard Bernstein
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Music, when soft voices die
Vibrates in the memory -
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
~Benny Green

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The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides!
~Artur Schnabel
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The pause is as important as the note. ~Truman Fisher

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The city is built
To music, therefore never built at all,
And therefore built forever.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven.
~Lawrence Duncan

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Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.
~Confucius
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Rock music in its lyrics often talks ahead of the time about what's going on in the country.
~Edmund G. Brown
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Music can noble hints impart,
Engender fury, kindle love,
With unsuspected eloquence can move,
And manage all the man with secret art.
~Joseph Addison
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My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.
~Liberace
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Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,
Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
~Ronald Reagan
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The discovery of song and the creation of musical instruments both owed their origin to a human impulse which lies much deeper than conscious intention: the need for rhythm in life… the need is a deep one, transcending thought, and disregarded at our peril. ~Richard Baker
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Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.
~Leigh Hunt

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Comments of Abe Martin and His Neighbors, 1923
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
~Harlan Howard
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An artist, in giving a concert, should not demand an entrance fee but should ask the public to pay, just before leaving as much as they like. From the sum he would be able to judge what the world thinks of him - and we would have fewer mediocre concerts.
~Kit Coleman, Kit Coleman: Queen of Hearts
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I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Are we not formed, as notes of music are,
For one another, though dissimilar?
~Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it?
~Charles Ives

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The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.
~Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

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Music is love in search of a word.
~Sidney Lanier

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It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible.
~Victor de LaPrade

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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
~Jean Paul Richter

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Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.
~William Green
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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
~Simon Rattle
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Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.
~Helmut Walcha

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I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else. ~Lily Tomlin

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The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.
~S.A. Sachs

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The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks singing in the moonlight in the back yard on a hot night or something said long ago.
Louis Armstrong

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Richard Wagner
I write music with an exclamation point!
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Friedrich Nietzsche
In music the passions enjoy themselves
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Henry Ward Beecher
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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Thomas Carlyle
Music is well said to be the speech of angels
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William Shakespeare
If music be the food of love; play on.
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Plato
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
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Henry Giles
A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.
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William Congreve
Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak.
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Thomas Carlyle
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Louis Armstrong
What we play is life.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"

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Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. ~Robert Benchley
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No good opera plot can be sensible:... people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. ~W.H. Auden, Time, 29 December 1961
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You are the music while the music lasts.
T. S. Eliot
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Laurie Anderson

Beauty Quote

2009-01-07T20:01:00.000-08:00

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech
CUJules Maryanne Williamson quotes
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“The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.”

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“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
Ashley Smith quotes

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“Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.”
Mark Overby quotes

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“No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

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“It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.”

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“You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her”

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“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”
Ivan Panin quotes (Russian mathematician1855-1942)

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“Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir
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Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.
George W. Russell

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I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
Author Unknown

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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindrath Tagore

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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran
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Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.
Tertullian
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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"
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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
Martin Buxbaum

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Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Rhodora"

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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Christopher Morley

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil

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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
Logan Pearsall Smith

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The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.
Author Unknown

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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese Proverb
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Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5.
Roseanne
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I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.
Karl Lagerfeld

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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Beauty and folly are generally companions.
Baltasar Gracian
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Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.
Grey Livingston

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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius

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Plainness as its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.
George Eliot
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann von Goethe

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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
Karl Kraus

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Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
John Ruskin

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Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.
Florenz Ziegfeld
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Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella

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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, 1851

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Stendhal

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One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be see many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will.
Rachel Carson
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe.
Gabriela Mistral, Desolacíon
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Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart.
ate Dircks

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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
Marie Stopes
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Beauty - in projection and perceiving - is 99.9% attitude.
Grey Livingston
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Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
Pablo Picasso
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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?
Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine
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Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
Rosalind Russell

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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
George Bernard Shaw, to Mrs. Patrick Campbell

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Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.
Garrison Keillor
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“Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective.”

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“Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her”

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“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross quotes (Swiss-American psychiatrist and author )

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“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it”
Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)

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“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart”
Helen Keller quotes (American Author and Educator who was blind and deaf. 1880-1968)

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“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before”
Jane Austen quotes (British Novelist and Writer, 1775-1817)

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“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart”
Kahlil Gibran quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)

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“Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.”
Sara Teasdale quotes

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“When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.”
Kahlil Gibran quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)

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“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
Sophia Loren quotes (Italian film Actress, b.1934)

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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus
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The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour -- property, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Albert Einstein
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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein

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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin
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Joy is the best makeup.
Anne Lamott

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When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buckminster Fuller

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People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
Candace Bergen

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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese proverb
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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
D. H. Lawrence
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To those who followed Columbus and Cortez, the New World truly seemed incredible because of the natural endowments. The land often announced itself with a heavy scent miles out into the ocean. Giovanni di Verrazano in 1524 smelled the cedars of the East Coast a hundred leagues out. The men of Henry Hudson's Half Moon were temporarily disarmed by the fragrance of the New Jersey shore, while ships running farther up the coast occasionally swam through large beds of floating flowers. Wherever they came inland they found a rich riot of color and sound, of game and luxuriant vegetation. Had they been other than they were, they might have written a new mythology here. As it was, they took inventory.
Frederick Turner
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I said to myself -- I'll paint what I see -- what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it -- I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.
Georgia O'Keeffe

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.
Helen Keller
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The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Henry Miller
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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
Jean Kerr
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
John Keats
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
John Ruskin

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Kahlil Gibran

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Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
Kalidasa

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The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day.
Kenneth Patton

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Do you love me because I'm beautiful,
or am I am beautiful because you love me?
Oscar Hammerstein, II

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The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Pierre Auguste Renoir

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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson

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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
Rachel Carson

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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Spirituality exists wherever we struggle with the issue of how our lives fit into the greater cosmic scheme of things. This is true even when our questions never give way to specific answers or give rise to specific practices such as prayer or meditation. We encounter spiritual issues every time we wonder where the universe comes from, why we are here, or what happens when we die. We also become spiritual when we become moved by values such as beauty, love, or creativity that seem to reveal a meaning or power beyond our visible world. An idea or practice is "spiritual" when it reveals our personal desire to establish a felt-relationship with the deepest meanings or powers governing life.
Robert C. Fuller :

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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -- "Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling

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Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
Sir Walter Scott

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Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
Sophia Loren
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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
When Death claims the light of my brow,
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now!
Thomas F. Healey:

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The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf

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Oh, this is the joy of the rose: / That it blows, / And goes.
Willa Cather

Action Quote

2009-01-05T19:40:00.000-08:00

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
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It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.
Walter Linn

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It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.
Christian Nevell Bovee

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It is time for us all to stand and cheer for the doer, the achiever - the one who recognizes the challenge and does something about it.
Vincent Lombardi
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It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Brian Tracy
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Just as a flower, which seems beautiful has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of a man who speaks them but does them not.
Dhammapada
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Just Do It.
Nike
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Just do what you do best.
Red Auerbach
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann von Goethe

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"I just don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat."
Hank Aaron

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"Idleness is sweet, and its consequences are cruel."
John Quincy Adams

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"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
Dante Alighieri

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"Showing up is 80 percent of life."
Woody Allen

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"You have to stand up for the fellow who's been knocked down."
Maya Angelou

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit."
Aristotle

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"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise."
Red Auerbach

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"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment."
Robert Benchley

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"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."
Sarah Bernhardt

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"When you say you agree to a thing on principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice."
Otto von Bismarck

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"The world is more malleable than you think, and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape."
Bono

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"Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Matthew Broderick

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"Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor."
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
Edmund Burke
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"Everyone who's ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference."
Nolan Bushnell
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"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
Robert Byrne
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"A vision without execution is just an hallucination."
Joe Calloway
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"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."
Thomas Carlyle

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"In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for
regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions."
Carlos Castaneda

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"Things do not get better by being left alone. Unless they are adjusted, they explode with a shattering detonation."
Winston Churchill

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“If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.”
meimei Tom Krause quotes ( motivational speaker, Teacher and Coach, b.1934)

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“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”

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“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
Quoting Napoleon Bonaparte
Andrew Jackson quotes (American 7th US President, 1767-1845)

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“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt quotes (American 26th US President (1901-09), 1858-1919)

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“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

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“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

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“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.”
Leonardo da Vinci quotes (Italian draftsman, Painter, Sculptor, Architect and Engineer whose genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. 1452-1519)

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“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”
Napoleon Hill quotes (American author, 1883-1970)

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“Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.”
Chamfort quotes (French playwright, 1741-1794)

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Mason Cooley
"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you're praying."
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Davy Crockett
"Be always sure you are right - then go ahead."
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Miguel de Cervantes
"The guts carry the feet, not the feet the guts."
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Timothy Dalton
"I'll do anything for a woman with a knife."
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Jacques Derrida
"To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend."
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Mike Ditka
"If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life."
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Michael Dukakis
"There are only four ways to reduce the federal budget deficit...We
must do all four."
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Isadora Duncan
"People do not live nowadays - they get about ten percent out of life."
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Thomas Edison
"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."
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Albert Einstein
"People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results."
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Activity is contagious."
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"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
"Always do what you are afraid to do."
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
"The world belongs to the energetic."
"What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
Friedrich Engel
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"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory."
Admiral David Farragut
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"Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead."
Jane Fonda
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"I don't have a lifestyle, I have a life."

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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Blueeyes502 Maya Angelou quotes (American Poet, b.1928)

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“Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.”

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“Sometimes the people whom we've know for only a short amount of time have a bigger impact on us than those we've known forever.”
gogurl1188

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“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me.”
Erma Bombeck quotes (U.S. humorist, 1927-1996)

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“The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have”
Brian Koslow quotes (American author and entrepreneur)

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“Many fine things can be done in a day if you don't always make that day tomorrow”

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“I never worry about action, but only about inaction”
Winston Churchill quotes (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)

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“Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.”
Charles F. Kettering quotes (American engineer, inventor of the electric starter, 1876-1958)

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“Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.”
Jules Renard quotes (French Writer, 1864-1910)

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Harrison Ford
"I'm like a bad penny, I always turn up."
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Henry Ford
"You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do."
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Benjamin Franklin
"One today is worth two tomorrows."
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"Remember that time is money."
Mohandas Gandhi
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"Be the change you want to see in the world."
"My life is my message."
Bill Gates
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"I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act."
Bob Geldof
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(About Live Aid) "When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people."
Harold S. Geneen
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"You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory."
Goethe
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"Doubt can only be removed by action."
"What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
Martha Graham
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"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. Great dancers are not great because of their technique. They are great because of their passion."
Ulysses S. Grant
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"The fact is I think I am a verb instead of a personal pronoun. A verb is anything that signifies to be; to do; or to suffer. I signify all three."
Che Guevara
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"I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves."
Georges Gurdjieff
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"Religion is doing."
Dag Hammarskjöld
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"Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road."
Tom Hanks
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"Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
Václav Havel
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"Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs."
Helen Hayes
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"If you rest, you rust."
Joseph Heller
(From novel) "Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing."
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“Action is the real measure of intelligence.”
Napoleon Hill quotes (American author, 1883-1970)

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“The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.”
George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)

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“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)

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“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.”
Moliere quotes (French Actor, Playwright and Writer the greatest of all writers of French comedy, 1622-1673)

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“The ancestor of every action is a thought.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

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“It's not what I do, but the way I do it. It's not what I say, but the way I say it.”
Mae West quotes (American Actress and sex symbol, 1892-1980)

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“The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

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“There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and Dramatist. 1749-1832)

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“I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.”
Mae West quotes (American Actress and sex symbol, 1892-1980)

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“To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)
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If I’m going to do something, I do it spectacularly or I don’t do it at all.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud - Action - Commitment -
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My wheels are running. My investments are local, regional and international.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud - Action - Long Term Investing - Investing -
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We call it infectious impatience. That's his hallmark and we are trying to inculcate it in the entire organization. Infectious impatience. So that things not only get done but get done in double quick time.
Mukesh Ambani - Action - Inspirational - Business Growth
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I'd always thought, 'When I finish modelling, I'm going to pursue this.' But then it really kind of hit me. I realized, 'Well, no, you can't do it when it's convenient. If I'm going to do it, I've got to do it right now.' (talking about pursuing her career as a singer)
Erica Baxter - Now - Action - Procrastination
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Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.
Tim Blixseth - Ideas - Great - Action
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It's not enough to rage against the lie.. you've got to replace it with the truth.
Bono - Lies - Truth - Action
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America is an idea, but it's an idea that brings with it some baggage, like power brings responsibility. It's an idea that brings with it equality, but equality even though it's the highest calling, is the hardest to reach. The idea that anything is possible, that's one of the reasons why I'm a fan of America. It's like hey, look there's the moon up there, let's take a walk on it, bring back a piece of it. That's the kind of America that I'm a fan of.
Bono - Action - America - Ideas - Responsible - Power - Encouragement
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At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.
Bono - Action - God - Inspirational
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I'm tired of dreaming. I'm into doing at the moment. It's, like, let's only have goals that we can go after.
Bono - Action - Encouragement - Now - Goals
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The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.
Bono - Action - Encouragement - World
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As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.
Jack Canfield - Improvement - Action - Dreams - Mistakes
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If you believe that some day it's going to happen, some day it probably will happen. You just have to make sure you're there when it's happening, and ideally you're at the front of the parade, and the principle beneficiary of when it happens, but it's not a kind of thing where you just sort of sit back and wait.
Steve Case - Belief - Ambition - Action
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Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.
Carlos Castaneda - Warrior - Knowledge - Regret - Decisions - Responsibility - Doubt - Action
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I like to build things, I like to do things. I am having a lot of fun.
Walter Chrysler - Inspirational - Fun - Ambition - Action
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In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.
Chin-Ning Chu - Action - Motivation - Fear
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My view is that, you know, life unfolds at its own rhythm. You know, I have never lived a life that I thought I could plan out. And I'm just trying to do the best I can every day. I find I have a lot to get done between the time I get up and the time I go to bed.
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Life - Planning - Action - Busy
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If you don't act now while it's fresh in your mind, it will probably join the list of things you were always going to do but never quite got around to. Chances are you'll also miss some opportunities.
Paul Clitheroe - Action - Opportunity
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The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions..
Paulo Coelho - Mistakes - Opportunity - Action -
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You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.
Clive Davis - Opportunity - Action
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There are a lot of things that go into creating success. I don't like to do just the things I like to do. I like to do things that cause the company to succeed. I don't spend a lot of time doing my favorite activities.
Michael Dell - Company - Success - Work - Action
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The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.
Walt Disney - Action - Motivational
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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli - Action - Happiness
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One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work.
Peter Drucker - Work - Philanthropy - Action -
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Action - Fear - Life
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
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It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste time.
Henry Ford - Action - Time
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Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.
Benjamin Franklin - Action - Life -
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Satisfaction does not come with achievement, but with effort. Full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi - Winning - Achievement - Action
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If we did not take action to solve this crisis, it could indeed threaten the future of human civilization. That sounds shrill. It sounds hard to accept. I believe it's deadly accurate. But again, we can solve it. (talking about the environamental crisis)
Al Gore - Environmental - Crisis - Solutions - Action
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You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
Philip Green - Happiness - Action - Work
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You have to pretend you're 100 percent sure. You have to take action; you can't hesitate or hedge your bets. Anything less will condemn your efforts to failure.
Andrew Grove - Failure - Action - Confidence
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I know that I have the ability to achieve the object of my Definite Purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.
Napoleon Hill
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Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Napoleon Hill
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Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Conrad Hilton
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In life and business, there are two cardinal sins.. The first is to act precipitously without thought and the second is to not act at all.
Carl Icahn
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You can do so much in 10 minutes' time .Ten minutes, once gone, are gone for good.. Divide your life into 10-minute units and sacrifice as few of them as possible in meaningless activity.
Ingvar Kamprad
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There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.
John F. Kennedy
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And so, my fellow Americans.. Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
David Letterman
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The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy.
Peter Lynch
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Action will destroy your procrastination.
Og Mandino
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Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global warming.
John McCain
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An act of heroism, of extraordinary courage, the grandeur of it, won't easily inspire us to act in imitation, but it can inspire us to emulate its author. For that, we should learn what we can of the whole experience of the subject, the hero's life, as it was before and after, and believe that trying to emulate the character it reveals is one tried way to prepare for the tests that might await us and gain hope that our courage will not be wanting in the moment.
John McCain
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We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.
John McCain
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Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
Dan Millman
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can’t do everything.. at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
Dan Millman
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Today, whether it is a student who holds a sit-in to get the army recruiters off his campus, or the mother of a dead soldier who refuses to leave the front gate of the president's ranch, we continue to be saved by brave people who risk ridicule and rejection but end up turning huge tides of public opinion in the direction of righteousness. We owe them enormous debts of gratitude. It is not easy to stand up for what is right, especially when everyone else is afraid to leave the comfortable path of conformity.
Michael Moore
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Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction.
Rupert Murdoch
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We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first.. and that takes time. But we must do this quickly.. the climate will not wait for us.
Rupert Murdoch
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You only get out of it what you put into it. If you are a sheep in this world, you're not going to get much out of it.
Greg Norman
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I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.
Kerry Packer
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Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
Ross Perot
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Character is one factor that will guide all our actions and decisions. We invested in uncompromising integrity that helped us take difficult stands in some of the most difficult business situations.
Azim Premji
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It's the little things you do that can make a big difference. What are you attempting to accomplish? What little thing can you do today that will make you more effective? You are probably only one step away from greatness.
Bob Proctor
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Remember, a real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Anthony Robbins
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My friends thought I was crazy, that I should wait until I was dead. But I was determined. It is easy to promise but action is different.
Sakip Sabanci
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Global warming is one of those things, not like an earthquake where there's a big bang and you say, 'Oh, my God, this is really, has hit us.' It creeps up on you. Half a degree temperature difference from one year to the next, a little bit of rise of the ocean, a little bit of melting of the glaciers, and then all of a sudden it is too late to do something about it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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What a man believes may be ascertained not from his creed, but from assumptions on which he habitually acts.
George Bernard Shaw
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Success is not for the timid. It is for those who seek guidance, make decisions, and take decisive action.
Jose Silva
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I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important thing.
Martha Stewart
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I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Brian Tracy
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Confidence can get you where you want to go, and getting there is a daily process. It’s so much easier when you feel good about yourself, your abilities and talents.
Donald Trump
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I know what I'm having 'em put on my tombstone: 'I have nothing more to say'.
Ted Turner
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Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Sun Tzu
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An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Jack Welch
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Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
Oprah Winfrey
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.
Oprah Winfrey
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I probably have mellowed down a bit. But when it comes to principles, I still have to make a stand.
Gordon Wu
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If you don't have daily objectives, you qualify as a dreamer.
Zig Ziglar
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I don't care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.
Zig Ziglar
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If you wait until all the lights are "green" before you leave home, you'll never get started on your trip to the top.
Zig Ziglar
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The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.
Zig Ziglar

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Nellie Hershey Tullis: Hard Work Quote
The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you've been in the race.
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Roger Staubach: Hard Work Quote
There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
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Harvey C. Fruehauf: Hard Work Quote
There's no ceiling on effort!
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Leonardo Da Vinci: Hard Work Quote
Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
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William Penn: Hard Work Quote
To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
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Aristotle: Hard Work Quote
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Elbert Green Hubbard: Hard Work Quote
When on the brink of complete discouragement, success is discerning that... the line between failure and success is so fine that often a single extra effort is all that is needed to bring victory out of defeat.
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Helen Keller: Hard Work Quote
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
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Zig Ziglar: Hard Work Quote
Where you start is not as important as where you finish.
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
Pearl S. Buck

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"Working nine to five, what way to earn a living.
Barely getting by… It's all taking and no giving.
They use just your mind and they never give you credit.
It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it!"
- Dolly Parton (in the movie "Nine to Five")
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"WARNING TO ALL PERSONNEL:
Firings will continue until moral improves…"
- Anonymous
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"Employees are the rungs on the ladder of success.
Do not hesitate to step on them."
- "Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #211" ("Star Trek: Deep Space Nine")
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"I love my job, it' s the work I hate."
- Anonymous
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"Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace."
- Frederick W. Taylor
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"There is no substitute under the heavens for productive labor. It is the process by which dreams become realities. It is the process by which idle visions become dynamic achievements. Most of us are inherently lazy. We would rather play than work. We would rather loaf than work. A little play and a little loafing are good. But it is work that spells the difference in the life of a man or woman. It is stretching our minds and utilizing the skills of our hands that life us from mediocrity."
- Gordon B. Hinckley
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". . . there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor."
- Albert Camus
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"Drudgery is doing under strain what you don't now enjoy and for no end that you can now appreciate."
- Richard C. Cabot
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"We have too many people who live without working. We have too many more who work without living. At some point in our 'career' we must choose between living to work and working to live…"
- Dean Charles R. Brown
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"More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the work justifies."
- Anonymous
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"He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city,
where he worked like hell so he could live in the country."
- Don Marquis
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"If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are."
- George C. Hubbs
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"I Don't Want to Work…"

"Life is just a dirty four-letter word: W-O-R-K."
- J. P. McEvoy
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"A bad day of vacation is better than a good day at work."
- Ellen Mogensen
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
- Thomas Edison
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"Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged."
- Abraham Lincoln
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"The world is filled with willing people...
Some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."
- Robert Frost
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"Many hands make light work."
- John Heywood
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"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."
- Sam Ewig
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"The world is full of wishing-folks, Who sit and dream and smile,
And never seem to get around, To doing things worthwhile.
They all would like the praise that goes, With reputations grand -
But do not care to pay the price, To earn such praise from man.
And yet - there's no way else to win, Success and worthwhile praise,
Than rolling up the sleeves - and then, To toil thru endless days."
- Edward V. Wood
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"Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want."
- French Proverb
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"A classical education…enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving."
- Russell Green
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"The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward."
Igor Sikorsky
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"My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else. If they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers."
- Brigham Young
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"Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define… work. So it's not whether it works, but whether we like the way it works."
- Sy Leon
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"You're Job's a Joke, You're Broke…"

"No labor, however humble, is dishonoring."
- Talmud
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"Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him."
- Benjamin Franklin
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"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."
- Kahlil Gibran
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"If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you,
you have not found your place."
- Orison Swett Marden
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"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies."
- Albert Camus
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"Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions."
- Mark Twain
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"When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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"If I rest, I rust."
- Martin Luther
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"It is better to wear out than to rust out."
- Richard Cumberland
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"Work your way up or rust your way out."
- H. Holton
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"Labor disgraces no man, but occasionally men disgrace labor."
- Ulysses S. Grant
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"Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction."
- Anne Frank
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"I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."
- Thomas A. Edison
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"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours."
- Dale Carnegie
(Remember the old saying… if you are bored, it is because you are boring! - EM)
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"Thank God every morning that you have something to do that day which must be done; whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self control; diligence and strength of will; cheerfulness and content; and a hundred virtues which the idle never know."
- Charles Kingsley

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"And It Gets You Nowhere to Tell Them 'Know'!"
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"No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted words, failure and success and measure them by the eternal, not the earthly, standard. When after thirty obscure, toilsome, unrecorded years in the shop of the village carpenter, one came forth to be pre-eminently the man of sorrows, to wander from city to city in homeless labors, and to expire in lonely agony upon the shameful cross -- was that a failure?" (I think not… - EM)
- F. W. Farrar
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"Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day."
- Ronnie Milsap
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"The work praises the man."
- Irish Proverb
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"As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work."
- Katharine Hepburn
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"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
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"If you don't have the time to do it right, where do you think you're going to find the time to do it over?"
- Anonymous
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"There's no labor a man can do that's undignified - if he does it right."
- Bill Cosby
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"Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work."
- Thomas Carlyle
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"My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others. That's nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.'"
- Helen Hayes
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"Desires are of value only when they drive us to action. Will and work must accompany desire. Then high resolve is born. Desire is the design - Will spurs us into achievement -- Work achieves."
- Anonymous
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."
- Henry David Thoreau
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"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence... the only true measure of civilization."
- Calvin Coolidge
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"The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives."
- M. Russell Ballard
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"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."
- M. Somerset Maugham
(Think about it sometime… do you want money or the freedom it brings? -EM)
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"Working for the MAN Every Night and Day…"
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"I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it."
- James A. Garfield
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"I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind. If he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business… The way to wealth . . . depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money."
- Benjamin Franklin
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"Many successful people are no more talented than unsuccessful people. The difference between them lies in the old axiom that successful people do those things that unsuccessful people don't like to do."
- Harvey MacKay
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"The law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and prayerful heart, and to work, work, WORK."
- Heber J. Grant
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"Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success, may be crowded with grand possibilities."
Orison Swett Marden
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"He that would have fruit must climb the tree."
- Thomas Fuller
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"The heights by great men reached and kept. Were not obtained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night."
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("The Ladder of St. Augustine")
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"If talent doesn't work hard, hard work beats talent."
- Anonymous
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"When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work."
- George Bernard Shaw
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"I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation."
- Charles Hughes
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"Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win."
- Nadia Comaneci
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"The harder you work, the luckier you get."
- Gary Player
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"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
- Dale Carnegie
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"We Say It's a Revolution. You Know! We're Gonna Change the World"

"Most people do not have wealth without toil, though some are very fortunate to earn their subsistence by doing what they want to do. They are fortunate because although they may think they are working for a living, they are really not. They are engaged in leisure-work and getting paid for it. They would continue to do exactly what they are doing if wealth were secured for them."
......"If that is not the case, they are working, not leisuring. I earn my living by editing, writing, lecturing, and teaching. If I did not have to earn a living I would do exactly the same things. I would not change my life at all. (If people didn't pay me to lecture, I'd pay them to listen.)"
......"What is the essential character of Leisure Work. Subsistence Work is for an extrinsic compensation. But leisure work is intrinsically rewarding. It does not have to be extrinsically compensated. It is the kind of activity that produces the things which make a life good. As Aristotle says, one plays for the sake of work and works for the sake of leisure."
- Mortimer Adler
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"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence.
To do something well is to enjoy it."
- Pearl Buck
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"Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."
- Kahlil Gibran ("The Prophet")
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"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
- John Ruskin
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"To each man is reserved a work which he alone can do."
- Susan Blow
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"In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed. They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it."
- John Ruskin
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"... work well-done does good to the man who does it."
- George S. Clason
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"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it
but what he becomes by it."
- John Ruskin
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"Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself."
- Frank McGee
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"Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."
- Thomas Edison
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"I don't have hobbies. I have passions."
- Pablo Casals
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"And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame;
But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They Are!"
- Rudyard Kipling
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"Nice Work if You Can Get it… If You Get It, Won't You Tell Me How?"
"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."
- Dale Carnegie
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"Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself."
- Samuel Butler
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"Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence."
- Anonymous
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"Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments.
Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself;
till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at."
- Thomas Carlyle
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"People forget how fast you did a job - but they remember how well you did it."
- Howard W. Newton
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"People who never do any more than they get paid for never get paid for any more than they do."
- Albert Hubbard
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"Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want."
- Bernard M. Baruch
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"People are not the best because they work hard, they work hard because they are the best."
- Dale Carnegie
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"Give the best you have to the highest you know... and do it now."
- Ralph W. Sockman
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"Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow."
- Benjamin Franklin
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"Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt, dance like there's nobody watching."
- Anonymous
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"The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work."
- Albert Hubbard
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"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
- Martin Luther King Jr
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"When you are in any contest you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"Golf is like everything else in life--you get out of it what you put into it.."
- Jack Nicklaus (proved it during one tough year on the professional golf tour)
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"Just Do It… Just Do It Now!"
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"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs."
- Henry Ford
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"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work."
- Georgia O'Keefe
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"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein
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"Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes."
- Henry J. Kaiser

Failure Quote

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“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”
Sven Goran Eriksson quotes

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“The only real failure in life is the failure to try.”

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“Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.”
Frederick Smith quotes
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“There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them.”
meimei Tom Krause quotes ( motivational speaker, Teacher and Coach, b.1934)

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“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
Colin Powell quotes
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“Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.”

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“Success builds character, failure reveals it”
Dave Checkett quotes

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“Try and fail, but don't fail to try.”
Stephen Kaggwa quotes

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“My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes
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“I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong”
Benjamin Franklin quotes
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Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin

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The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.
Ashley Montagu
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Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
Corita Kent
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
Edward de Bono
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My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny.
Elaine Maxwell
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A failure is a man who has blundered but is not capable of cashing in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
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The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Elizabeth Drew
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw

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My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw

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It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
Havelock Ellis
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure: which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert B. Swope
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It's a Wonderful Life
Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.

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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
James Russell Lowell

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It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West

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Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.
Kin Hubbard
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There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.
Laurence J. Peter
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Those who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed. (adapted)
Lloyd Jones

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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Madame de Stael
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If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
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A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
May Sarton
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I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. 26 times Iâ€™ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
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Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
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Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.
Mother Teresa

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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde

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But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
Paulo Coelho
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Pearl S. Buck
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There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
Rabindranath Tagore

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Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison
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Do not waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy
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The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

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You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
Samuel Goldwyn
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It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Samuel Smiles
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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Samuel Smiles
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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas Alva Edison

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Alva Edison
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No garden is without its weeds.
Thomas Fuller
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Wallace Stegner
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William M.
Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.
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Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
William Saroyan
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
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“Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.”
Zig Ziglar quotes (American motivational Speaker and Author. )

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“A man may fall many times, but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.”
Elmer G. Letterman quotes

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“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)

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“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.”
Andre Malraux quotes (French Historian, Novelist and Statesman, 1901-1976)
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“Failure is the tuition you pay for success.”
Walter Brunell quotes

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“Success is never final; failure is never fatal”

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“When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

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“To be wrong is nothing unless you continue to remember it”
Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)

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“Failure is not an option.”

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“Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.”
Chinese Proverbs quotes

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"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely."
~ Henry Ford
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas Alva Edison

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"All my successes have been built on my failures."
~ Benjamin Disraeli
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"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
~ Sir Winston Churchill
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"There is no failure except in no longer trying. "
~ Elbert Hubbard
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“We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.”
Leo F. Buscaglia quotes (American guru, tireless advocate of the power of love, 1924-1998)
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“You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)
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“To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying”
David Viscott quotes

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“Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities”
Napoleon Hill quotes (American author, 1883-1970)

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“Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.”
Oprah Winfrey quotes (American television personality,Actress and Producer, b.1954)

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“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”
William Saroyan quotes
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“He who fails to plan, plans to fail”
Proverb quotes

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“Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.”
Jim Rohn quotes (American Speaker and Author. He is famous for motivational audio programs for Business and Life. )

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“The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.”
Henry Louis Mencken quotes (American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956)

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“Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach.”
Roger Von Oech quotes

Argument Quote

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“When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence”
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“If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?”
C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)
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“There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes”
James Morrow quotes
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“If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just as well be the world as God, so that there cannot be any validity in that argument”
Bertrand Russell quotes (English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970)

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“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument is an exchange of ignorance”
Robert Quillen quotes

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“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”
Winston Churchill quotes (British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965)
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“My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.”
Jack Benny quotes (American Entertainer whose unusual comedic method and expert timing made him a legendary success in US radio and television for more than 30 years. 1894-1974)
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“When a man uses profanity to support an argument, it indicates that either the man or the argument is weak - probably both”

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“I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.”
Dave Barry quotes (American Writer and Humorist best known for his weekly newspaper column. b.1947)
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When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say -- and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln
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My dear sir, they don't debate. Each of them merely issues an ultimatum, and in what a tone! It all goes to show what extraordinary people they are, each more unequivocal than the other. - "The Old Lady and the Bear"
Colette
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There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
Daniel Dennett
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Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
Daniel Dennett
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Life is a quest and love a quarrel ...
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Arguments are often like melodramas -- they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.
Gay Hendricks
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Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times.
Gay Hendricks
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One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.
Gay Hendricks
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Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
Jack Lynch
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Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. On Being a Teacher
Jonathan Kozol
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Argument is the worst sort of conversation.
Jonathan Swift
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.
Marie Ebner von Eschenbach
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Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to take the risk unless it is totally covered by the few successful shows that are out there.'
Dick Wolf

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Mary Pettibone Poole:
To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,
requires brains.
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Nor knowest thou what argument
Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent.
All are needed by each one;
Nothing is fair or good alone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle and carry home with them, and the cause is half won.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.
Jello Biafra

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I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization.
Peter L. Berger

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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
H. Rap Brown
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It is no dishonor to be in a minority in the cause of liberty and virtue.
Sam Adams
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When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument
Virginia Woolf
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“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.
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The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, `for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'
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`But,' says Man, `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'
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`Oh dear,' says God, `I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.
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`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets
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himself killed on the next zebra crossing.”
enigmaticfaerie Douglas Adams quotes (British comic Writer, 1952-2001)
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For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.
Janet Frame
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“The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.”
George Carlin quotes (American stand-up Comedian, Actor and Author. b.1937)

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“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”
Robert Quillen quotes

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No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
Thomas Berger

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At a time like this, scorching iron, not convincing argument, is needed.
Frederick Douglass

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“The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at least she is not the other.”
Andrea Dworkin quotes

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“The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.”
Dale Carnegie quotes (American lecturer, author, 1888-1955)
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“In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.”
Stephen Wright quotes (American Actor and Writer, b.1955)

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“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.”
Colin Powell quotes (Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-93). At present, US Secretary of State, 1937)

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“My life is my argument.”
Albert Schweitzer quotes (German medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician and Philosopher. 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, 1875-1965)

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Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Jane Austen
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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.
Robert Benchley

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“That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not”
Thomas Paine quotes (English born American Writer and political pamphleteer, whose 'Common Sense' and 'Crisis' papers were important influences on the American Revolution. 1737-1809)

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“Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument.”
Gioacchino Rossini quotes

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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Francis Beaumont
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For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.
William Banting

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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Isaac Asimov
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Albert Camus:
[I]n such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.
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Aldous Huxley:
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

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Alfred Tennyson:
Till the war-drum throbb`d no longer, and the battle-flags were furl`d; In the parliament of man; the Federation of the world.

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Annie Dillard:
"One of the main reasons that it is so easy to march men off to war," says Ernest Becker, is that "each of them feels sorry for the man next to him who will die."

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Aristotle:
We make war that we may live in peace.
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Barbara Kingsolver:
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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Barbara Kingsolver:
There's a graveyard in northern France where all the dead boys from D-Day are buried. The white crosses reach from one horizon to the other. I remember looking it over and thinking it was a forest of graves. But the rows were like this, dizzying, diagonal, perfectly straight, so after all it wasn't a forest but an orchard of graves. Nothing to do with nature, unless you count human nature.

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Benjamin Franklin:
There never was a good war or a bad peace.

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Blaise Pascal:
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

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Colman McCarthy:
Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.
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Colman McCarthy:
Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

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Croesus:
In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

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David Friedman:
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.

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Dorothy Thompson:
They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war was the same as peace.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. [1953]

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Ecclesiastes:
For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war, and a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
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Eleanor Roosevelt:
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.

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General Douglas MacArthur:
I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a method of settling international disputes.

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George Bernard Shaw:
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

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George W. Bush:
No, I know all the war rhetoric, but it's all aimed at achieving peace.

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George W. Bush:
I've been to war. I've raised twins. If I had a choice, I'd rather go to war.

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George Washington:
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.

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George Washington:
I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
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Georges Clemenceau:
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.

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Gertrude Stein:
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.

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Harry Emerson Fosdick:
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another.

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Hermann Goering:
Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. quote verified at snopes.com

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Howard Nemerov:
Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

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Howard Thurman:
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
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Isaac Asimov:
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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Isaac Asimov:
It is not only the living who are killed in war.

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James Russell Lowell:
We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage.
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Jeanette Rankin:
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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John Adams:
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.

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John F. Kennedy:
The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men.

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John F. Kennedy:
It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

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John F. Kennedy:
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer be of concern to great powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by winds and waters and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

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John Stuart Mill:
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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Martha Gelhorn:
War is a malignant disease, an idiocy, a prison, and the pain it
causes is beyond telling or meaning; but war was our condition
and our history, the place we had to live in.

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Omar N. Bradley:
Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.
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Patrick Henry:
It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace--but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! March 23, 1775
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R. Buckminster Fuller:
Either war is obsolete or men are.
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Ralph Bunche:
There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson:
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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Robert E. Lee:
It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

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Ronald Reagan:
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

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Simone Weil:
A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

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Spinoza:
Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue; a state of mind; a disposition for benevolence; confidence; and justice.

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Theodore Roosevelt:
To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. (1918)

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Thomas Jefferson:
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

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Thomas Paine:
If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
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Will Rogers:
You can't say civilization don't advance -- for in every war, they kill you in a new way.

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War would end if the dead could return.
Stanley Baldwin

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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
~Abba Eban
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Probably, no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
~Abraham Flexner

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Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
~Abraham Lincoln

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Military glory--that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood--that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy...
~Abraham Lincoln

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I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
~Abraham Lincoln

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Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
~Abraham Lincoln
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America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
~Abraham Lincoln

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We must recognize the chief characteristic of the modern era--a permanent state of what I call violent peace.
~Admiral James D. Watkins

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All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.
~Admiral Sir John Fisher

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Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
~Adolph Hitler
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In war, truth is the first casualty.
~Aeschylus

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Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
~Aesop

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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
~Agatha Christie
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The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
~A. J. P. Taylor
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
~A. J. P. Taylor
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
~A. J. P. Taylor
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Wars based on principle are far more destructive...the attacker will not destroy that which he is after.
~Alan Watts

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The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
~Albert Camus

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We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives...inside ourselves.
~Albert Camus

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When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid, it can't last long." But though a war may be "too stupid," that doesn't prevent its lasting.
~Albert Camus
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It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
~Albert Camus
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
~Albert Camus

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Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
~Albert Einstein

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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
~Albert Einstein
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Force always attracts men of low morality.
~Albert Einstein
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The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
~Albert Einstein

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It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
~Albert Einstein

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Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
~Albert Einstein
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How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
~Albert Einstein
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Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
~Albert Einstein
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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own.
~Albert J. Nock
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What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
~Aldous Huxley
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Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The next war ... may well bury Western civilization forever.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The demands of internal growth are incomparably more important to us...than the need for any external expansion of our power.
~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.
~Alexander Berkman
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War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.
~Alexander Berkman

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Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
~Alexander Hamilton

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O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.
~Alexander Pope
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All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
~Alexis de Tocqueville
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No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
~Alexis de Tocqueville
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It is always easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them.
~Alfred Adler
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War is organized murder and torture against our brothers.
~Alfred Adler
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Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.
~Alfred Adler

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...Violence as a way of gaining power...is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security...
~Alfred Adler
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War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
~Alfred Adler
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Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory . . . and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
~Alfred Adler
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To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
~Alfred Adler

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At least we're getting the kind of experience we need for the next war.
~Allen Dulles

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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
~Ambrose Bierce
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Since the end of the World War II, the United States has fought three "small" wars...we lost all three of them and for the same reason--hubris.
~Andrew Greely
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Today the real test of power is not capacity to make war but capacity to prevent it.
~Anne O'Hare McCormick
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A great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
~Anonymous (German)
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Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents...
~Anthony Gregory
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The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
~Anthony Gregory
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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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Make wars unprofitable and you make them impossible.
~A. Philip Randolph
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Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
~A pirate, from St. Augustine's "City of God"

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Old men declare war because they have failed to solve complex political and economic problems.
~Arthur Hoppe

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All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
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Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
~Ayn Rand
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Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
~Ayn Rand
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Why should we hear about body bags, and deaths...I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?
~Barbara Bush
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
~Barbara Ehrenreich
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What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
~Barbara Jordan
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
~Barbara Tuchman
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You've got to forget about this civilian. Whenever you drop bombs, you're going to hit civilians.
~Barry Goldwater
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The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies.
~Basil O'Connor
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War is never a solution; it is an aggravation.
~Benjamin Disraeli
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Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later.

~Benjamin Franklin

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I hope....that mankind will at length, as they call themselves responsible creatures, have the reason and sense enough to settle their differences without cutting throats...

~Benjamin Franklin

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When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

~Benjamin Franklin
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All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.

~Benjamin Franklin
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There never was a good war or a bad peace.

~Benjamin Franklin
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Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

~Benjamin Franklin

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A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang.

~Benjamin Franklin
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Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.

~Bernard M. Baruch

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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

~Bertrand Russell
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War does not determine who is right, only who is left.

~Bertrand Russell

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Can anything be more ridiculous than that a man has a right to kill me because he lives on the other side of the water, and because his ruler has quarrel with mine, although I have none with him?

~Blaise Pascal

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The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.

~Brendan Behan

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Peace is constructed, not fought for.

~Brent Davis

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After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

~Brooks Atkinson
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After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.

~Brooks Atkinson
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Blind faith in your leaders or in anything will get you killed.

~Bruce Springsteen
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The state has, in order to control us, introduced division into our thinking, so that we come to distrust others and look to the state for protection.

~Butler Shaffer
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Coercive practices that threaten our neighbor(s) also threaten us.

~Butler Shaffer
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In this war – as in others – I am less interested in honoring the dead than in preventing the dead.

~Butler Shaffer
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No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.

~Calvin Coolidge
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Politics is the womb in which war develops.

~Carl P. G. von Clausewitz

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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

~Carl P. G. von Clausewitz
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War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

~Carl P. G. von Clausewitz

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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

~Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu

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A rational army would run away.

~Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu
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The voice of protest...is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum...is bidding all men...obey in silence the tyrannous word of command.

~Charles Eliot Norton
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If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

~Charles Eliot Norton
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War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

~Charles Evans Hughes

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The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.

~Charles-Louis De Secondat
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Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat- including men--from reluctant citizens...

~Charles Tilly

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Name me an emperor who was ever struck by a cannonball.

~Charles V of France
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The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

~Charley Reese
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We...are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant.

~Charley Reese
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The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex than their own thinking processes.

~Charley Reese
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War, n: A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president’s popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.

~Chaz Bufe
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The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

~Chris Hedges

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War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and of idealists by cynics.

~Chris Hedges

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In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

~Chris Hedges
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After victory, you have more enemies.

~Cicero
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

~Clarence Darrow
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Hell hath no fury like a non-combatant.

~C.L. Montague

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War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

~Colin Powell
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Chauvinism is a proud and bellicose form of patriotism...which equates the national honor with military victory.

~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps
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The dangerous patriot...drifts into chauvinism and exhibits blind enthusiasm for military actions.

~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps
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The dangerous patriot...is a defender of militarism and its ideals of war and glory.

~Colonel James A. Donovan, Marine Corps
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You cannot be on one hand dedicated to peace and on the other dedicated to violence. Those two things are irreconcilable.

~Condoleeza Rice
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War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

~Congressman Ron Paul
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Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

~Congressman Ron Paul

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As a rule of thumb, if the government wants you to know it, it probably isn't true.

~Craig Murray
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised "for the good of its victims" may be the most oppressive.

~C. S. Lewis
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Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

~C.S. Lewis
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Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.

~Daisaku Ikeda
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I am a steadfast follower of the doctrine of non-violence which was first preached by Lord Buddha, whose divine wisdom is absolute...

~Dalai Lama
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All forms of violence, especially war, are totally unacceptable as means to settle disputes between and among nations, groups and persons.

~Dalai Lama
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When the largest industry in the world is no longer War, I will accept Darwin's theory of Evolution.

~Dale S. Mugford
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Today the real test of America's power and wisdom is not our capacity to make war but our capacity to prevent it.

~Dale Turner
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Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

~Daniel Goleman
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There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong.

~Daniel O'Connell
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Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.

~David Borenstein

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You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It’s like having a war on jealousy.

~David Cross
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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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The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny...

~David Hume
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You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon.

~David Lloyd

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War creates peace like hate creates love.

~David L. Wilson

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Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

~Davy Crockett
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From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

~Denis Diderot

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The question in my mind is how many additional American casualties is Saddam worth? And the answer is not very damned many.

~Dick Cheney
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There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

~Donald Rumsfeld

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Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war.

~Donald Rumsfeld
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It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

~Dorothy Thompson

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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.

~Dorothy Thompson

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Peace...is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle.

~Dorothy Thompson

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Dress it as we may...huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?

~Douglas Jerrold
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The best defense is no offense.

~Dr. Ivan Eland
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We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means.

~Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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"Rules of engagement" are a set of guidelines for murder.

~Dr. Teresa Whitehurst
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Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

~Dr. Wayne Dyer
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Nothing except a battle lost can be half as melancholy as a battle won.

~Duke of Wellington

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I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

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War settles nothing.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Together we must learn how to compose difference, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We may never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

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How far can you go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?

~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

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When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

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This world of ours...must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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You can't have this kind of war. There just aren't enough bulldozers to scrape the bodies off the streets.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

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We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower

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We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

~Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

~E. B. White
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Wisdom is better than weapons of war.

~Ecclesiastes 9:18
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The tragedy of modern war is that the youg men die fighting each other---instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

~Ed Abbey
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A Patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

~Ed Abbey
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

~Edmund Burke

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Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

~Edmund Burke

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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other--instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

~Edward Abbey
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

~Edward Abbey
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Our "neoconservatives" are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

~Edward Abbey
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Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

~Edward Everett
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As long as mankind shall bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst for military glory will remain the vice of the most exalted characters.

~Edward Gibbon

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Violence is an admission that one's ideas and goals cannot prevail on their own merits.

~Edward M. Kennedy
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

~Edward R. Murrow
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All the gods are dead except the god of war.

~Eldridge Cleaver
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It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

~Eleanor Roosevelt
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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.

~Eleanor Roosevelt
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

~Eleanor Roosevelt
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Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.

~Elias Canetti

Life Quote

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Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
Kahlil Gibran: Life Quote
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Kahlil Gibran: Life Quote
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
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Frederick Bastiat: Life Quote
Life, liberty and property do not exist because men made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
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Norman Vincent Peale: Life Quote
Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.: Life Quote
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
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Unknown Author: Life Quote
Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them.
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Eileen Caddy: Life Quote
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
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Gandhi: Life Quote
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Christian Furchtegott Gellert: Life Quote
Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying.
“Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up.”
malkinson Chuck Palahniuk quotes (American freelance Journalist, Satirist and Novelist. b.1961)
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“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)
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“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”
James Dean quotes (American motion picture actor, symbol of rebellion, 1931-1955)

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“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.”
Charles R. Swindoll quotes (American Writer and Clergyman, b.1934)
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“Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.”
lizzie15635
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“It hurts to love someone and not be loved in return, but what is the most painful is to love someone and never find the courage to let the person know how you feel.”
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“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
Maria Robinson quotes
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“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.”
Ashley Smith quotes
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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
Sparrowrose Howard Thurman quotes (American Theologian, Clergyman and Activist. 1900-1981)
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“To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
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“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

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“If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.”
Win Borden quotes

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“The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
Tom Bodett quotes

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“In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.”
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“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

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“This is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.”
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“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

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“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

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“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”
Flora Whittemore quotes

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“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.”

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“Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.”
Kevin Arnold quotes
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“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

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“The most important things in life aren't things.”
Anthony J. D'Angelo quotes (Founder of The Collegiate EmPowerment Company and creator of The Inspiration Book Series)

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“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

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“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.”
drlrao Swami Vivekananda quotes (Indian Spiritual leader of the Hindu religion (Vedanta). Disciple of the famous 19th century mystic-saint Sri Ramakrishna of Calcutta. Founder of the Ramakrishna Order of Monks. 1863-1902)

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“Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.”
Alex Tan quotes

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“Never waste a minute of your precious life by squandering it thinking about people you don't like”

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“I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.”
Zelda Fitzgerald quotes (Wife of American short-story writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.)

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“Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.”
John N. Mitchell quotes

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“Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

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“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”
Eyemadreamer Keri Russell quotes
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“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away”

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“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”
bulldogman Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Anne Frank quotes (German Jewish girl Author of a diary of her family's two years in hiding during World War II, 1929-1945)

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“Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror”
Byrd Baggett quotes

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“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.”
Horace quotes (Ancient Roman Poet. 65 BC-8 BC)

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“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure”
Peter Marshall quotes (American TV game show host, b.1927)

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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
John W. Gardner quotes (American Writer and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1912-2002)

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“Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.”

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“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
Walter Bagehot quotes (British political Analyst, Economist and Editor, one of the most influential journalists of the mid-Victorian period.1826-1877)

Imagination Quote

2009-01-01T09:16:00.000-08:00

“Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.”
John Lennon quotes (English Singer, Songwriter and Political activist, member of the "Beatles", 1940-1980)

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“The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)

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“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.”
Duane Michals quotes

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“I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.”
Peter Nivio Zarlenga quotes
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“It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death”
Robert Fulghum quotes

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“Imagination rules the world.”
Napoleon Bonaparte quotes (French General, Politician and Emperor (1804-14). 1769-1821)
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“Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match”
Ingrid Bengis quotes (Russian American Author, 1915-1982)

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“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”
Leonardo da Vinci quotes (Italian draftsman, Painter, Sculptor, Architect and Engineer whose genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. 1452-1519)
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“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”
Jamie Paolinetti quotes (American Schroeder Iron Pro Cycling)
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“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.”
Nancy Willard quotes (American Poet and Writer, b.1936)
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“You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”
George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
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“I reject your reality and substitute it for my own.”
Adam Savage quotes

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“If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.”
Jesse Jackson quotes (American Civil-Rights Leader, Baptist Minister and Politician, b.1941)
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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
Sparrowrose Howard Thurman quotes (American Theologian, Clergyman and Activist. 1900-1981)

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“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

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“I can believe anything provided it is incredible.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)

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“People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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Wayne Oates: Imagination Quote
Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny.
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Robert Frost: Imagination Quote
Poets need not go to Niagara to write about the force of falling water.
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Unknown Author: Imagination Quote
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
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John Lennon: Imagination Quote
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
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Willis Whitney: Imagination Quote
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
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Robert Collier: Imagination Quote
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and create their mental picture in all it details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that a bit, but steadily building - steadily building.
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“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
Steve Jobs quotes (American Entrepreneur Apple co-Founder, b.1955)

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“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
Albert Einstein quotes (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955)

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“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
George Bernard Shaw quotes (Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950)
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“Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.”
Jules de Gaultier quotes
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“This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.”
Henry David Thoreau quotes (American Essayist, Poet and Philosopher, 1817-1862)

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“I shut my eyes in order to see.”
Paul Gauguin quotes (French painter, printmaker, and sculptor, 1848-1903)
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“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

Wisdom Quote

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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
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Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake,
on tiptoe.
Josh Billings
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A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen
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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”
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“Be happy. It's one way of being wise.”
Sidonie Gabrielle quotes
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The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
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“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
Plato quotes
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“The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had.”
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Huneker
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson
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Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Victor Hugo
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“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it”
Albert Einstein quotes
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“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
Sandra Carey quotes
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“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Reinhold Niebuhr quotes (American theologian, 1892-1971)
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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles
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Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
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No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
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“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received”
Pops01 Antonio Porchia quotes (Italian poet, 1886-1968)
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“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'”
Charles M. Schulz quotes (American cartoonist, 1922-2000)
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“A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?”
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“The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.”
John A. Simone, Sr. quotes
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“The highest form of wisdom is kindness”
The Talmud quotes
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“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.”
David Starr Jordan quotes (American ichthyologist, educator, writer b.1851)
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“A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.”
Gian Carlo Menotti quotes
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“We must become the change we want to see.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster
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“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”
Kahlil Gibran quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)
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“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
Bruce Lee quotes (American Actor and martial arts expert. Born in San Francisco, California, USA 1940-1973)
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“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)
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“A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn't make sense.”
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“When an argument flares up, the wise man quenches it with silence”
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“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
Abraham Lincoln quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
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“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are”
C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)
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“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)
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“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.”
Lao Tzu quotes (Chinese taoist Philosopher, founder of Taoism, wrote "Tao Te Ching" (also "The Book of the Way"). 600 BC-531 BC)
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“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.”
Swami Sivananda quotes (Indian Yoga master, Physician, Monk and Founder of The Divine Life Society, 1887-1963)
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“Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.”
Friedrich Nietzsche quotes (German classical Scholar, Philosopher and Critic of culture, 1844-1900.)
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“It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise”
Sara Teasdale quotes
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“The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.”
the_write_one Don Williams, Jr. quotes (American Novelist and Poet, b.1968)

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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi quotes (Indian Philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948)
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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 quotes (American 16th US President (1861-65), who brought about the emancipation of the slaves. 1809-1865)
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“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.”
Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)

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“Good friends are like stars.... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there”
santiz
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“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship”
Epicurus quotes (Greek philosopher, BC 341-270)

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“So wise so young, they say, do never live long.”
William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)
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“We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.”
Leo F. Buscaglia quotes (American guru, tireless advocate of the power of love, 1924-1998)
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To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
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“A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.”
Louis L'Amour quotes (American writer, best-selling author, 1908-1988)
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“A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion”
Chinese Proverbs quotes

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“A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.”
Bill Cosby quotes (American Actor, Comedian and Producer. b.1937, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)
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We can stay young by focusing on a dream instead
of on a regret.
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It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward
dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older
one climbs with surprising strides.
- George Sand
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If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child,
it usually works out pretty well.
- Black Hawk
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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Henry David Thoreau
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We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have
the life that is waiting for us.
- E. M. Forester
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The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime.

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The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your
state of mind.
- Wayne Dyer
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The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret
nothing.
- Somerset Maugham
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Life appears to be too short to be spent in nursing animosity or
registering wrong.
- Charlotte Bronte
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Your key to freedom lies in your power to control your thoughts.

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To teach is to touch a life forever.

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Put your interest in the future, because you're going to spend the
rest of your life there.
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Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.
- John Maxwell
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Change brings freshness.

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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in
escaping from the old ones.
- John Maynard Kynes
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No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
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What you think of yourself is much more important than what
others think of you.
- Seneca
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The most certain sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness;
her state is like the things above the moon, always clear
and serene.
- Michael de Montaigne
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure
future ones.
- Seneca
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Freedom is the ability not to care what the other person thinks.

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I've learned that the more possessions I acquire, the less free
I feel.

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Creative ideas reside in people's minds but are trapped by
fear or rejection. Create a judgment-free environment and
you'll unleash a torrent of creativity.
- Alex Osborne
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It affects nothing it
touches and hurts the one who is possessed by it more
than the one against whom it is directed.
- Claredon
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We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without
brightening our own.
- Ben Sweetland
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Learn, earn, return - these are the 3 phases of life.
Jack Balousek
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There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist
another human being - to help someone to succeed.
- Alan Loy McGinnus
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A great place to find motivational articles and quotes - inspiring
you to lead a happier, more peaceful, and productive life is at
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No man is free who is not master of himself.
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Time is Nature's way of preventing everything from happening
all at once.

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To see what's in front of one's nose requires a constant
struggle.
- George Orwell
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It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

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Have patience with all things, but especially with yourself.

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You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in
in harmony with your dominant thoughts.
- Brian Tracy
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The whole process of mental, spiritual, and material riches
may be summed up in one word - gratitude.

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Your key to freedom lies in your power to control your thoughts.
- Tim Connor
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Comic Strip Quotations presents wisdom in a very unique and fun way.
I'm sure you'll enjoy his playful cartoon characters which he has combined
with profound thoughts. They're very artistically done.
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Reading is knowledge and knowledge is power.
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Prosperity is a life experience in health, wealth and love. You are
prosperous when you have the resources to do what you
truly want to do at the time you want to do it.
- Scott Sherman
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A generous man forgets what he gives and remembers what he
receives.
- Old Proverb
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Ninety percent of the friction of daily life is caused by the wrong
tone of voice.
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If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a
hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
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Wisdom is supreme, therefore get wisdom. Though it cost all
you have - get understanding.
- Proverbs 4:7
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What a new face courage puts on everything.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and
hopeful than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience
of waking up one more day.
- Jack Smith
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help
them to become what they are capable of being.
- Goethe
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All life is an experiment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a
good chance of being a prophet.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real
strength.
- Frances de Sales
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Wisdom is divided into two parts: (a) having a great deal to say,
and (b) not saying it.
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The questions you ask consistently will create either enervation
or enjoyment, indignation or inspiration, misery or magic.
Ask the questions that will uplift your spirit and push you
along the path of human excellence.
- Tony Robbins
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The best cure for anger is delay.
- Seneca, A.D. 63
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One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its
original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
- Michael Pritchard

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There is no wealth but life.
- John Ruskin
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When nobody around you seems to measure up, it's time to
check your yardstick.
- Bill Lemley
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There is no security in life. There is only opportunity.
- Douglas MacArthur
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O Lord, please fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and nudge
me when I've said enough.

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Enlightenment is the "quiet acceptance of what is" I believe
the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow
themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the
way they are.
- Wayne Dyer
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Learn the richness of solitude and quiet. That "still small voice"
is yearning to be heard.
- Susan Jeffers
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True freedom is an inner thing. It is a state of mind. It is a
deliberate exercise of choice. Thus, if we think we are
bound by external forces, we are deceiving ourselves.

It is our willing acquiescence to these outer demands
that imprisons. Free yourself today. Take control of
your thoughts.
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No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.

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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for
anything else.
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I often regret that I have spoken; never that I am silent.
- Publilius Syrus
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Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them,
since you cannot even make yourself as you wish to be.
- T. A. Kempkis
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it,
change your attitude. Don't complain.
- Maya Angelou
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You have a gift that only you can give the world - that's the
whole reason you're on the planet. Use your precious
energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable.
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The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.
- Oprah
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Wisdom is realizing there is a gift or a lesson in everything that life
brings . . . therefore every experience can help us grow and become wiser
Wisdom is also about honoring people and caring about their rights and
it is reflected in the courtesy with which we treat others. We hope these
wisdom quotes have been inspirational for you.