"Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."

Einstein, Albert on bargains
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"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?"

Peter, Laurence J. on wealth   

"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit."

Shay, R. E. on luck
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"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."

Coolidge, Calvin on army and navy
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"It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success."

Feherty, David on attitude
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"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."

Holtz, Lou on attitude
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"A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it."

Howells, William Dean on mothers
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"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

Dyke, Henry Van on talent
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"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get Up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office."

Frost, Robert on work
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"I shed a tear today. Silenty, I felt it fall. You caught it, shared it, held it, felt it, then suddenly it wasn't so big after all."

Tindall, Marge on tears
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"Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up."

Schulz, Charles M. on blame
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"It is getting harder and harder to support the government in the style to which it has become accustomed."

Unknown, Source on taxes and taxation
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"Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing."

Benchley, Robert on language
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"What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer."

Adams, Douglas on challenges
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"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened."

Adams, Douglas on mystery
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"The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form."

Randall, Stanely J. on perfection
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"A racehorse that consistently runs just a second faster than another horse is worth millions of dollars more. Be willing to give that extra effort that separates the winner from the one in second place."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on excellence
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"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

Adams, Douglas on
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"The words of the world want to make sentences."

Bachelard, Gaston on words
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"I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul."

Henley, William Ernest on freedom
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"Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred."

Proverb, Korean on influence
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"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too."

Maugham, W. Somerset on freedom
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"Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither."

Lewis, C. S. on heaven
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"One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child."

Jarrell, Randall on children
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"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on honor
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"To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still."

Shakespeare, William on beauty
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"How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child."

Shakespeare, William on children   

"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."

South, Bishop Robert on failure
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"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives."

South, Bishop Robert on action   

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it."

Frost, Robert on communication
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"More in a garden grows than what the gardner sows."

Proverb, Spanish on garden   

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

Churchill, Winston on socialism   

"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me."

Dr. Seuss on   

"Our Constitution was not written in the sands to be washed away by each wave of new judges blown in by each successive political wind. "

Black, Hugo on   

"Praise the sea; on shore remain."

Florio, John on oceans
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"If you're coasting, you're either losing momentum or else you're headed downhill."

Welsh, Joan on laziness
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"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up."

Twain, Mark on indecision
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