"People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be consistent."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on contradiction
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"A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything."

Magazine, Bernard on mistakes
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"If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen."

DeVos, Richard M. on dream
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"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."

Carnegie, Dale on work
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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."

Angelou, Maya on impression
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"Life without a friend is death without a witness."

Proverb, Spanish on solitude
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"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."

Einstein, Albert on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got."

Billings, Josh on women
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"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."

Orwell, George on goodness
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"When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it."

Rohn, Jim on desire
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"The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others."

Charron, Pierre on deception
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"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."

Woollcott, Alexander on present
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"Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible."

Maxim, Cadet on risk
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"You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes."

Shaw, George Bernard on power
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"First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it."

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"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

Kipling, Rudyard on certainty
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"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."

Cummings, Fr. Jerome on friends and friendship
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"There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them."

Proverb, French on miracles
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"When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too."

Steinfeld, Jake on love
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"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself."

Lao-Tzu on love
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"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on love
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"First open your mind to someone,then open your heart "

Laske on love
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"If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever."

Horton, Doug on love
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"Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

Hubbard, Elbert on friends and friendship
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"Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd."

Aragon, Louis on love
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"We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love."

Layton, Irving on love
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"From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash."

Tucker, Sophie on money
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"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."

Gesser on adversity
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"Failure does not count. If you accept this, you'll be successful. What causes most people to fail is that after one failure, they'll stop trying."

Burford, Frank on failure
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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."

Everett, Douglas on ability
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"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

Welles, Orson on isolation
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"Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul."

Bachelard, Gaston on dream   

"Seduce my mind and you can have my body, find my soul and I'm yours forever."

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"Love is a serious mental disease."

Plato on love
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"Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return."

Pilgrim, Peace on love
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"Every man is a potential genius until he does something."

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"It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters."

Holyfield, Evander on art
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