"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

Kierkegaard, Søren on freedom
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"One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure."

Gardner, John W. on risk
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well."

Rohn, Jim on maturity
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"Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man --and after that, praying."

Proverb, Irish on age and aging
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"To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity."

Weeks, Edward on fear
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"Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person."

Tracy, Brian on relationship
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"It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no."

Sade, Marquis De on crime and criminals   

"Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were."

Bergman, George E. on tact and tactfulness
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"If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes."

Twain, Mark on weather
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"Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art."

Picasso, Pablo on censorship
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"In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children."

Benchley, Robert on travel   

"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car."

White, Elwyn Brooks on automobiles   

"Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas."

Wilson, Earl on debt   

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

Seneca on courage
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"Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited."

Santayana, George on nonsense
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"Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense."

Stein, Gertrude on common sense   

"Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult."

Maugham, W. Somerset on common sense   

"Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on experts
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"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

Einstein, Albert on common sense
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"Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education."

Hugo, Victor on common sense
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"That man is idle who can do something better."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on idleness
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"Idleness is an appendix to nobility."

Burton, Robert on idleness   

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"The real people of genius were resolute workers not idle dreamers."

Lewes, George Henry on genius
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"For Satan finds some mischief still For idle hands to do."

Watts, Isaac on evil
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"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on life
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"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on professions and professionals   

"Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

Bible on judgment and judges   

"Think not I am what I appear."

Byron, Lord on appearance
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"Appearance rules the world."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on appearance   

"The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear."

Halifax, Edward F. on beauty
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"Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance."

Franklin, Benjamin on judgment and judges
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"A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness."

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier on happiness
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"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."

Chuang Tzu on happiness
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"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on happiness
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"Happiness is a by product of an effort to make someone else happy."

Palmer, Gretta Brooker on happiness   

"Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth."

Wilde, Oscar on wealth   

"Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities."

Schuller, Robert H. on impossibility
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"There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away."

Christie, Agatha on conversation
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