"We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion."

Hegel, Georg on passion
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"The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it."

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S. on circumstance   

"I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense."

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S. on life
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"No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth."

Southey, Robert on friends and friendship
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"How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems."

Southey, Robert on appearance
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"Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things."

Southey, Robert on organization   

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

Twain, Mark on world
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"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can."

Smith, Sydney on perseverance   

"Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out."

Smith, Sydney on reason
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"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

La Bruyere, Jean De on miracles
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"The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated."

Gandhi, Mahatma on country
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"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed."

Dyer, Wayne on present
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"A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on ideas
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"For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on freedom
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"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on."

Frost, Robert on fights and fighting
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"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on life
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"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."

Voltaire on government
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"We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature."

Voltaire on faults
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"The man who tries to do something and fails is infinitely better than he who tries to do nothing and succeeds."

Jones, Lloyd on failure
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"It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fallibility
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"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on individuality
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"I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason -- as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on animals
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"He who has a strong enough why can bear almost any how."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on reason
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"We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on age and aging
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"He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on abundance
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"The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another Earth must pass before such a one can be again. "

William Beebe on extinction   

"The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it."

Voltaire on reason
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"Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true."

Hoffer, Eric on power   

"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

Hoffer, Eric on minorities
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"We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution."

Hoffer, Eric on evolution
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"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings."

Hoffer, Eric on self-esteem
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"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

Bard, Carl on beginning
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"When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us."

Harris, Sidney J. on disagreements
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"The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."

Huxley, Thomas H. on science   

"Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune."

Socrates on change
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"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

James, William on purpose
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"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."

Fitzgerald, F. Scott on memory
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"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."

DeVos, Richard M. on belief
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"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

Hubbard, Elbert on stupidity
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"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on conversation
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