"Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter."

Propp Jr., Fred on life
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"Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause."

Hugo, Victor on argument
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"Nature uses as little as possible of anything."

Kepler, Johannes on nature   

"I came, I saw, I conquered."

Caesar, Julius on victory
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"To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

Confucius on knowledge
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"Run if you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, just never give up."

Karnazes, Dean on running
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"One should always play fair when one has the winning cards."

Wilde, Oscar on gambling
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"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."

Wilde, Oscar on discontent
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"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

Lombardi, Vince on habit
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on forgiveness
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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed."

Jung, Carl on cooperation
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"Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought."

Salak, John Charles on failure
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"When people are bored it is primarily with themselves."

Hoffer, Eric on bores and boredom
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"Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight."

DeFrantz, Anita on goals
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"To talk without thinking is to shoot without aiming."

Proverb, English on talkativeness
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"Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on action
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"Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other."

Richards, Mary Caroline on action
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"He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master."

Dryden, John on trust   

"Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today."

Dryden, John on tomorrow   

"She feared no danger, for she knew no sin."

Dryden, John on sin
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"I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

Cicero, Marcus T. on envy
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"Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat."

Bowen, Elizabeth on fate
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"There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on fate   

"Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!"

Dryden, John on fate
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"Self-defense is Nature's eldest law."

Dryden, John on defense
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"All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey."

Dryden, John on fate   

"Genius must be born, and never can be taught."

Dryden, John on genius
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"When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit."

Dryden, John on life   

"Beware the fury of a patient man."

Dryden, John on patience
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"I dream, therefore I exist."

Strindberg, J. August on dream
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"We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes."

Gray, John Edward on problems
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"If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires."

Traubel, Horace on world
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"Love is not love until love's vulnerable."

Roethke, Theodore on love
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"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on laughter
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"The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on knowledge
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"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!"

Kerouac, Jack on apathy
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"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

Darrow, Clarence on change
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"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on responsibility
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"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on greatness
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