"Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it."

Confucius on learning
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"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

Gentry, David Tyson on friends and friendship
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"A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door."

Confucius on planning
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"When prosperity comes, do not use all of it."

Confucius on prosperity
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"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."

Confucius on silence
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"Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated."

Confucius on simplicity
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius on beauty
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"There are times when silence has the loudest voice."

Brownlow, Leroy on silence
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"Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."

Confucius on work
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"Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing."

Confucius on worry
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"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Confucius on complaints and complaining
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"In a mad world, only the mad are sane."

Kurosawa, Akiro on sanity
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"Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint."

Horton, Doug on saints   

"Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on fallibility
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"The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on propaganda
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"Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way."

Anouilh, Jean on propaganda   

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"It's not what you are that holds you back, It's what you think you're not."

Waitley, Denis on self-image
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"The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking
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"It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission."

Unknown, Source on forgiveness   

"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."

Lao-Tzu on desire
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"They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on kings   

"The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Allen, James on destiny
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"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

Bryan, William Jennings on destiny
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"We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past."

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame on present
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"Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on destiny
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"I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on destiny   

"An educated people can be easily governed."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on government   

"The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on destiny
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"The destiny of man is in his own soul"

Herodotus on destiny
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"We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts."

Daniels, Victor on reality   

"Fear not what is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed."

Bhagavad Gita on reality
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"He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit."

Bramah, Ernest on reality   

"Still falls the rain -- dark as the world of man, black as our loss -- blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross."

Sitwell, Dame Edith on rain
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"There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down."

Delillo, Don on rain
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"People see the world not as it is, but as they are."

Lee, Al on reality   

"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?"

Moore, George on reality
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"Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."

Lennon, John on reality
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"You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow."

Pirandello, Luigi on reality
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"One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on gossip