"The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which I would add, Let no one, till his death be called unhappy."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on happiness
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"Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it."

Syrus, Publilius on value   

"Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them."

Syrus, Publilius on prosperity   

"Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy."

Syrus, Publilius on friends and friendship   

"Familiarity breeds contempt."

Syrus, Publilius on familiarity
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"There is one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist -- the taxidermist leaves the hide."

Caplan, Mortimer on taxes and taxation   

"Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired."

Caplan, Mortimer on laziness
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"I hate to lose more than I love to win."

Connors, Jimmy on losers and losing
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"The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next."

Connolly, Cyril on decadence
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"Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree."

Connolly, Cyril on epitaphs
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"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once."

Connolly, Cyril on journalism and journalists
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"The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."

Connolly, Cyril on marriage
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"Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth."

Connolly, Cyril on science   

"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong."

Fuller, Thomas on facts
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"Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other."

Faulkner, William on facts
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"People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?"

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on humankind
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"A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimensions."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on ideas
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"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

Holmes, John Andrew on ability
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"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."

Ali, Muhammad on humility
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"I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights."

Ali, Muhammad on preparation
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"A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on achievement
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"The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on genius
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"The Amen of nature is always a flower."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on flowers
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it."

Hope, Bob on bankers and banking   

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."

Hendrix, Jimi on power
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"No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker, with no past at my back."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on facts
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"It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on democracy   

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."

Ali, Muhammad on risk
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"It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up."

Ali, Muhammad on boxing
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"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

Francis of Assisi, St. on dream
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so."

Wieder, Marcia on dream
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"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown."

Waitley, Denis on dream
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"Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares."

Ustinov, Peter on dream
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"Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person with open eyes lucid enough to fit thoughts together. Dream --a scintillating mirage surrounded by shadows --is essentially poetry."

Leiris, Michel on dream   

"What's scary in life is not what people know (or don't know), but what they know that ain't so."

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel'' on knowledge   

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are."

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel'' on age and aging
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"Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on multiculturalism
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"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on life
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