"By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it."

Collins, Joseph on emotions
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"The only questions worth asking today are whether humans are going to have any emotions tomorrow, and what the quality of life will be if the answer is no."

Bangs, Lester on emotions
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"You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones."

Anderson, Greg on emotions
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"The heart is half a prophet."

Proverb, Yiddish on emotions
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"Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on prejudice   

"Respect is love in plain clothes."

Byrne, Frankie on respectability
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"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."

Voltaire on prejudice
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"Prejudice is being down on something you're not up on."

Unknown, Source on prejudice   

"Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter."

Peter, Laurence J. on prejudice
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"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."

Nixon, Richard M. on prejudice
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"The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class."

Lippmann, Walter on prejudice   

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"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."

Camus, Albert on respectability
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"Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due."

Cleaver, Eldridge on respectability
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"People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on importance
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"My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself."

Coward, Noel on importance
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"I could prove God statistically."

Gallup, George on statistics   

"Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners."

Sterne, Laurence on respectability
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"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."

Graham, Billy on respectability   

"If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are."

Gardner, John W. on respectability
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"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

Confucius on respectability
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"Think no vice so small that you may commit it, and no virtue so small that you may over look it."

Confucius on vice
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"To most people loneliness is a doom. Yet loneliness is the very thing which God has chosen to be one of the schools of training for His very own. It is the fire that sheds the dross and reveals the gold."

Martin, Bernard M. on loneliness
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"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."

Greer, Germaine on loneliness
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"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

Dyer, Wayne on loneliness
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"Bankers know that history is inflationary and that money is the last thing a wise man will hoard."

Durant, William J. on inflation   

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

Lincoln, Abraham on vice
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"Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone."

Tillich, Paul on loneliness
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"When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship."

Wallace, Lew on loneliness
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"Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance."

Durant, William J. on education
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"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."

Durant, William J. on knowledge   

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes, rather than their minds."

Durant, William J. on mind
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"When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty."

Durant, William J. on order   

"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."

Durant, William J. on certainty
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"It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country."

Durant, William J. on country
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"What torments my soul is its loneliness. The more it expands among friends and the daily habits or pleasures, the more, it seems to me, it flees me and retires into its fortress. The poet who lives in solitude, but who produces much, is the one who enjoys those treasures we bear in our bosom, but which forsake us when we give ourselves to others. When one yields oneself completely to one's soul, it opens itself to one, and then it is that the capricious thing allows one the greatest of good fortunes... that of sympathizing with others, of studying itself, of painting itself constantly in its works."

Delacroix, Eugene on loneliness
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"Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise."

Wilder, Thornton on promises
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"The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure."

Wilder, Thornton on adventure
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"You cannot raise a man up by calling him down."

Boetcker, William on motivation
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"Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner."

Brown, Les on motivation
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"Science is nothing but perception."

Plato on science
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