"Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion."

Koestler, Arthur on illusion
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"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual."

Koestler, Arthur on creativity
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"As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities."

Froude, James A. on ability
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"The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself -- where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind."

Moustakas, Clark on conflict   

"Words are the most powerful drugs used by mankind."

Kipling, Rudyard on drugs
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"A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with."

Froude, James A. on reason   

"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary."

Holtz, Lou on potential
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"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little."

King Jr. Martin Luther on service
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"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."

Holtz, Lou on attitude
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"When all is said and done, more is said than done."

Holtz, Lou on action
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"No one has ever drowned in sweat."

Holtz, Lou on work
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"Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by."

Holtz, Lou on action   

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

Socrates on dishonesty
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"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."

Socrates on desire
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"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on love
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"Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it."

Dali, Salvador on perfection
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"This grandiose tragedy that we call modern art."

Dali, Salvador on art   

"I wish I could be half as sure of anything as some people are of everything."

Barzan, Gerald on doubt
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"We are twice armed if we fight with faith."

Plato on faith
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"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

Plato on forgiveness
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"I have good hope that there is something after death."

Plato on immortality   

"You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him to think."

Hubbard, Elbert on education
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"You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself."

Markham, Beryl on knowledge
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"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."

Sarton, May on risk
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"Most people have to talk so they won't hear."

Sarton, May on speakers and speaking   

"No one but a fool is always right."

Hare, David on fools and foolishness
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"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."

Devlin, Bernadette on sacrifice
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"There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought."

Kingsley, Charles on freedom   

"Minds ripen at very different ages."

Montagu, Elizabeth on age and aging   

"He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply."

Buchan, John on feelings
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"Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible."

Maxim, Cadet on risk
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"Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, Why am I doing this? It comes down to passion."

St. James, Lyn on passion
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"A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day."

Dickinson, Emily on words
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"Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality."

Dickinson, Emily on death
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"Dying is a wild night and a new road."

Dickinson, Emily on death
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"I dwell in Possibility."

Dickinson, Emily on possibilities
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"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."

Dickinson, Emily on truth
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"Beauty is not caused. It is."

Dickinson, Emily on beauty
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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"Can we talk?"

Rivers, Joan on conversation