"Live as if everything you do will eventually be known."

Prather, Hugh on life
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"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on character
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"He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities."

Franklin, Benjamin on rest
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"Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger."

Bryant, William C. on truth
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"There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

Thoreau, Henry David on problems
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"Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."

Franklin, Benjamin on procrastination
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"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out..."

Collier, Robert on success
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"The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be."

Kempis, Thomas on planning
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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way."

Lewis, C. S. on dedication
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"We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you."

Ash, Mary Kay on royalty
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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

Shaw, George Bernard on liberty
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"This is all the Inheritance I can give to my dear Family. The Religion of Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed. "

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"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence."

Poe, Edgar Allan on self-confidence
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"It takes a long time to grow an old friend."

Leonard, John on friends and friendship
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"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship
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"I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment."

Mother Teresa on jesus christ
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"Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use."

Watson, Thomas J. on wisdom
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"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."

Alcott, Louisa May on friends and friendship
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"Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations."

Mackintosh, James on maxim   

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"Language is the dress of thought."

Johnson, Samuel on language
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"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."

Berle, Milton on committees and meetings
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"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on happiness
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"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

Wooden, John on mistakes
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"The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on neighbors
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"True greatness consists in being great in little things."

Simmons, Charles on excellence
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"Familiarity breeds contempt."

Syrus, Publilius on familiarity
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"The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on trains
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"When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting."

Jerome, St. on fasting
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"You can never be happily married to another until you get a divorce from yourself. A successful marriage demands a certain death to self."

Mccant, Jerry on marriage
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"Those who know how to think need no teachers."

Gandhi, Mahatma on teacher
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"Dictators never invent their own opportunities."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on dictators and dictatorship   

"Fatigue makes cowards of us all."

Lombardi, Vince on fatigue   

"When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony. [Julius Caesar]"

Shakespeare, William on love   

"Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be."

Raleigh, Sir Walter on government
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"Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best."

Palmer, Jim on losers and losing
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"What you think of me is none of my business."

Cole-Whittaker, Terry on opinions
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"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."

Edison, Thomas A. on results
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."

Updike, John on government
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"Three can keep a secret if two are dead."

Franklin, Benjamin on secrets
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