"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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"The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth."

Lappe, Frances Moore on food and eating   

"I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct -- nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying."

Twain, Mark on democracy
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"The game isn't over until it's over."

Berra, Yogi on competition
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"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily."

Ziglar, Zig on motivation
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"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."

Berger, John on autobiography   

"We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need."

Epicurus on friends and friendship
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"We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on freedom   

"I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home."

James, Henry on patriotism
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"To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak."

Masillon, Jean Baptiste on pride
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"Let us move from the era of confrontation to the era of negotiation."

Nixon, Richard M. on conflict
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"It is easy to rule over the good."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on government
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"Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey."

Ward, William A. on obedience
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"No problem is insurmountable. With a little courage, teamwork and determination a person can overcome anything."

Dodge, B. on work
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"A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you."

Clark, Ramsey on right and rightness
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"The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground."

Churchill, Winston on leadership
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"Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken."

Syrus, Publilius on fortune
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"He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities."

Franklin, Benjamin on rest
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"I have found it is much easier to make a success in life than to make a success of one's life."

Follin, G. W. on success   

"Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers."

Robbins, Anthony on questions
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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

Shaw, George Bernard on liberty
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"Smiles are the language of love."

Hare, David on smile
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"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."

Shaw, George Bernard on experience
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"Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on opportunity
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"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."

Burgess, Anthony on money
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"In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."

Geneen, Harold S. on business
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"In politics, nothing is contemptible."

Disraeli, Benjamin on politics
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"Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice."

Morita, Akio on mistakes
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"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition."

Smith, Adam on science   

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"It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all."

Proverb, Indian on laziness   

"Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor."

Luther, Martin on music
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"Anything that changes your values changes your behavior."

Sheehan, George on value
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"When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something."

Browning, Robert on self-control
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"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. "

Coolidge, Calvin on uncategorised   

"The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture."

Paglia, Camille on prostitution
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"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."

Smith, Sydney on ignorance
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"The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election."

Rogers, Will on elections   

"If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are."

Saying, Zen on understanding
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"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."

Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert on discovery
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