"Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts."

Baruch, Bernard M. on opinions
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"Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."

Adams, Abigail on learning
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"Great necessities call out great virtues."

Adams, Abigail on virtue
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"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."

Adams, Abigail on words
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"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another."

Aesop on discontent
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"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."

Aesop on enemies
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"There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate, and stinging him from time to time. The Man aimed a blow at his little enemy, but - whack - his palm come on his own head instead; again the Fly tormented him, but this time the Man was wiser and said: YOU WILL ONLY INJURE YOURSELF IF YOU TAKE NOTICE OF DISPICABLE ENEMIES."

Aesop on enemies
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"Example is the best precept."

Aesop on example
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"Don't count your chickens before they are hatched."

Aesop on expectation
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"Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won."

Alcott, Louisa May on reform
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"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

Alcott, Louisa May on vision
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"Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's finger."

Anderson, Hans Christian on life
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."

Aristotle on habit
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"Happiness depends upon ourselves."

Aristotle on happiness
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"The secret to humor is surprise."

Aristotle on humor
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"Nature does nothing uselessly."

Aristotle on nature
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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

Aristotle on action
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"Well begun is half done."

Aristotle on action
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"One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done. "

Aristotle on uncategorised
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"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

Aristotle on
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"Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know."

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"Be brave enough to live creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You cannot get there by bus, only by hard work, risking and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you will discover will be wonderful; yourself."

Alda, Alan on potential
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"To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"A true friend is one soul in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning to sail my ship."

Alcott, Louisa May on adversity
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"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."

Alda, Alan on risk
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"It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature."

Anderson, Hans Christian on thoughts and thinking
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"Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world."

Archimedes on power
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"Most people would rather give than get affection."

Aristotle on affection
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"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle on discipline
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"Education is the best provision for old age."

Aristotle on education
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"The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."

Aristotle on education
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

Aristotle on education
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"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

Aristotle on education
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."

Epicurus on gratitude
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"Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest."

Epicurus on skill
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