"The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."

Twain, Mark on joy
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"We are all alike, on the inside."

Twain, Mark on equality
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream. for all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We are still in for the season of suffering. How long? Not long. Because no lie can live forever. our God is marching on. "

King Jr. Martin Luther on uncategorised   

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. "

King Jr. Martin Luther on uncategorised
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"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

King Jr. Martin Luther on brotherhood
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"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

King Jr. Martin Luther on character
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"The time is always right to do what is right."

King Jr. Martin Luther on virtue
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"I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land."

King Jr. Martin Luther on vision   

"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better."

King Jr. Martin Luther on work
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"Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists."

King Jr. Martin Luther on churches   

"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."

King Jr. Martin Luther on cooperation
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"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

King Jr. Martin Luther on death
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"What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery! To know that you are walking where none others have walked; that you are beholding what human eye has not seen before; that you are breathing a virgin atmosphere. To give birth to an idea, to discover a great thought -- an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain-plough had gone over before. To find a new planet, to invent a new hinge, to find a way to make the lightning carry your messages. To be the first -- that is the idea."

Twain, Mark on discovery
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"Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But Im not concerned about that now. I just want to do Gods will. And Hes allowed me to go up to the mountain. And Ive looked over, and Ive seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. "

King Jr. Martin Luther on uncategorised
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"Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on people   

"The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other mens labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatable things, called by the same nameliberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatable namesliberty and tyranny. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised
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"One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life."

Butler, Edward B. on enthusiasm   

"How poor a guide enthusiasm is when it is not informed with the mind and spirit of God."

Stalker, James on enthusiasm   

"A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm."

Schwab, Charles M. on enthusiasm
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"There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on people
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"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."

Lincoln, Abraham on silence
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"Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours."

Proverb, Swedish on fear
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"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."

Hepburn, Katharine on joy
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"The closed mind, if closed long enough, can be opened by nothing short of dynamite."

Johnson, Gerald W. on mind
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"It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean."

Robbins, Anthony on circumstance
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"How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us."

Cousins, Parks on circumstance
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"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

Washington, Martha on circumstance   

"Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships."

Harrison, Barbara Grizzuti on relationship
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"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."

Lincoln, Abraham on justice
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"I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship
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"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."

Macarthur, Douglas on power
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"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."

Rutledge, Archibald on appreciation
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"If we want to be loved, we must disclose ourselves. If we want to love someone, he must permit us to know him. This would seem to be obvious. Yet most of us spend a great part of our lives thinking up ways to avoid becoming known. Indeed, much of human life is best described as impersonation. We are role players, every one of us. We say that we feel things we do not feel. We say things we did not do. We say that we believe things we do not believe. We pretend that we are loving when we are full of hostility. We pretend that we are calm and indifferent when we are actually trembling with anxiety and fear. Of course we cannot tell even the people we know and love everything we think or feel. But our mistakes are nearly always in the other direction. Even in families -- good families -- people wear masks a great deal of the time."

Jourard, Sidney on relationship
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"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."

Catherwood, Mary on relationship
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"It is the things in common that make relationships enjoyable, bit it is the little differences that make them interesting."

Ruthman, Todd on relationship
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"The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships."

Robbins, Anthony on relationship
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"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands."

Penney, Alexandria on relationship
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"If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time."

Paz, Octavio on relationship   

"You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less."

Murdock, Mike on relationship
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