"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."

Buck, Pearl S. on youth
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"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."

King Jr. Martin Luther on action
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" “I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, so we're really not that different, me and you.”"

Taller, Brianna on   

"The earth laughs in flowers."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on laughter
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"A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky."

Miller, Henry on world
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"What is research, but a blind date with knowledge."

Henry, William on research
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"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."

Einstein, Albert on mathematics
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"Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on faces
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"It seems that we learn lessons when we least expect them but always when we need them the most, and, the true gift in these lessons always lies in the learning process itself."

Crosby, Cathy Lee on learning
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"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

Mencken, H. L. on love
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"I talk to myself because I like dealing with a better class of people."

Tartakower, Savielly on self-talk
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"A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month."

Shakespeare, William on self-talk   

"The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside."

Hammarskjold, Dag on self-talk
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"Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought."

Unknown, Source on research
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"Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have."

Crockett, Davy on government
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"The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be."

King Jr. Martin Luther on extremes and extremists
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"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life."

Young, Brigham on education
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"Let the path be open to talent."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on direction
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on change
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"What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world."

Rimbaud, Arthur on life
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"Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything."

Johnson, Samuel on identity
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"A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man."

Adams, John on desire
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"When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."

Hemingway, Ernest on fiction
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"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."

Barrie, Sir James M. on desire
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"Novels are longer than life."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on fiction   

"Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on crime and criminals   

"What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence."

Johnson, Samuel on effort
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"Small crimes always precedes great ones."

Racine, Jean on crime and criminals   

"It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would have beaten me together. They might have killed me, then. His sense of honor saved my life. I didn't fight with honor... I fought to win."

Card, Orson Scott on honor   

"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on decisions
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"Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do."

Turgenev, Ivan on conformity
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"The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else."

Lawrence, D. H. on democracy   

" “There was a moment in my life when I really wanted to kill myself.And there was one other moment when I was close to that...But even in my most jaded times,I had some hope.”"

Gerard Way on gee   

"The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other."

Riesman, David on conformity   

"Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar."

Lawrence, D. H. on ethics   

"You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy."

Ashton, Marvin J. on action
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"Kindness and hard work will take you further than intelligence. "

Bana, Mervyn on
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on youth
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