"In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn."

Naisbitt, John on learning   

"One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so."

Naisbitt, John on commitment
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"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."

Bohr, Niels on truth
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hatred
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"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

Maslow, Abraham H. on change
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"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship
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"There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers."

Teresa of Avila, St. on prayer
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"To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that."

Teresa of Avila, St. on courage
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"We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us."

Teresa of Avila, St. on knowledge
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"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."

Aristotle on madness
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"The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."

Morley, Christopher on poetry and poets
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"High heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead."

Morley, Christopher on fashion
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"Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it."

Morley, Christopher on life
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"Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty."

Radcliffe, Timothy on celibacy
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"If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble."

Hope, Bob on charity
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"We must do the best we can with what we have."

Sill, Edward Rowland on excellence   

"The more unpredictable the world is the more we rely on predictions."

Rivkin, Steve on the future   

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."

Scott, Sir Walter on deceit
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"Look back, and smile at perils past."

Scott, Sir Walter on past
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"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."

Scott, Sir Walter on poetry and poets   

"The will to do, the soul to dare."

Scott, Sir Walter on courage
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"The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound."

Duffy, Maureen on love
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"Death -- the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening."

Scott, Sir Walter on death
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"Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance."

Durant, William J. on education
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"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."

Bourne, Alec on education
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on insights
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"This is a court of law young man, not a court of justice."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on law and lawyers
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"Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on society   

"The cross is the invincible sanctuary of the humble."

Cass, Eli on humility
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"One brave deed makes no hero."

Whittier, John Greenleaf on heroes and heroism
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"When faith is lost, when honor dies, the man is dead."

Whittier, John Greenleaf on faith
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"It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures."

Weil, Simone on god
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"I want you to start a crusade in you life -- to dare to be your best."

Danforth, William on effort   

"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on laughter
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"Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage"

Ziglar, Zig on planning
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"The way you see people is the way you treat them."

Ziglar, Zig on treatment
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"You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have."

Ziglar, Zig on action
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"There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic."

Ziglar, Zig on criticism
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"The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers."

Koestler, Arthur on genius
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