"Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked."

Berra, Yogi on popularity
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"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all."

Rather, Dan on trials
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"Fish and guests smell at three days old."

Proverb, Danish on guests   

"Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art."

Hijazi, Muhammad on politics
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"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on language   

"You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise."

Newman, James on circumstance
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"There are no better masters than poverty and want."

Proverb, Dutch on desire   

"Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave."

Gabirol, Ibn on secrets
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"Nature does not give to those who will not spend..."

Baughan, R.J. on giving
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"A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it."

Howells, William Dean on mothers
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"Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it."

Proverb, Italian on welfare
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"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."

Edwards, Flora on giving
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"Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man."

Battista, Orlando A. on knowledge
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"We will either find a way, or make one."

Hannibal on achievement
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"Nothing is irreparable in politics."

Anouilh, Jean on politics
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"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."

Marx, Karl on unemployment
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"Philosophy is nothing but discretion."

Selden, John on philosophers and philosophy   

"Women still remember the first kiss after men have forgotten the last."

Gourmont, Remy De on women
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"What really matters is what you do with what you have."

Lord, Shirley on action
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"The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortune, but its fears."

Benson, Arthur Christopher on fear
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"Computers WORK, people THINK."

IBM Corporation Old Adage on computers
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"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."

Lessing, Doris on colleges and universities   

"The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life."

Boetcker, William on service
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"Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway."

Coallier, Steven on life
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"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

Jefferson, Thomas on bankers and banking
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"What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth."

Proverb, Jewish on gossip   

"Pessimism never won any battle."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on pessimism
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"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."

Antrim, Minna on experience
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"Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on self-esteem   

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"The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology."

Auerbach, Red on action
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"The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on criticism
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"A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

Dylan, Bob on success
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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Bradley, Francis H. on admiration
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"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

Lincoln, Abraham on dogs
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"Don't think, just do."

Horton, Reiko on action   

"If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick."

James, William on potential
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"The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on the future
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"In love, there is always one who kisses and one who offers the cheek."

Proverb, French on love
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"Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex."

Barnes, Julian on love
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"Most people fail in life because they major in minor things."

Robbins, Anthony on failure
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