"When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world."

Disraeli, Benjamin on anecdotes   

"You can't choose up sides on a round world."

Dyer, Wayne on choice
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"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."

Wilde, Oscar on marriage
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"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."

Hill, Napoleon on work
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"You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone."

Rutte, Martin on work   

"If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on motivation
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"Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise."

Euripides on influence   

"Every one comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a bridge. Either you are leading men to God or you are driving them away."

Dewar, Canon Lindsay on influence
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"Be good and you will be lonely."

Twain, Mark on loneliness
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"The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on leadership
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"The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck."

Hawken, Paul on luck
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"The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things."

Dimnet, Ernest on happiness   

"If you've got the guts to stick it out... you're going to make it."

Hays, Brian on perseverance
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"Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly."

Mencken, H. L. on humankind   

"What is research, but a blind date with knowledge."

Henry, William on research
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"One definition of man is an intelligence served by organs."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."

Dyke, Henry Van on death
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"Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one."

Selye, Hans on attitude
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"Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote."

Nathan, George Jean on politics
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"It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment."

Bernard, St. on humility
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"If you have a vagina and an attitude in this town, then that's a lethal combination."

Stone, Sharon on hollywood
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"The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject."

Wynne-Tyson, Jon on memory   

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."

Freud, Anna on strength
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"The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!"

Browning, Robert on writers and writing
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"When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated."

Nader, Ralph on neighbors   

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on success
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"Friends come and go but enemies accumulate."

Bloch, Arthur on friends and friendship
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"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

Russell, Utterly on truth
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"If it's good they'll stop making it."

Block, Henry on quality   

"Success... it's what you do with what you've got."

Dyke, Leroy Van on success
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"People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel."

Hazlitt, William on vocation
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"The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on opportunity
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"The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it."

Searles, David on preparation   

"In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King."

Apostolius, Michael on blindness
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work."

Edison, Thomas A. on failure
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"Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone."

Joel, Billy on courage
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"If you would judge, understand."

Seneca on judgment and judges
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"Nothing is to small to know, and nothing too big to attempt."

Horne, William Van on trying
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"It's easier traveling the road of life when I don't have so much to carry on my back."

Mitchell, Silas Weir on burdens
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"The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on surprises
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