"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on spirituality
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"If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen."

DeVos, Richard M. on dream
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"Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none."

DeVos, Richard M. on money
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"The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do."

DeVos, Richard M. on conflict   

"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance."

Sandburg, Carl on poetry and poets
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"Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky."

Sandburg, Carl on poetry and poets   

"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."

Sandburg, Carl on action
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"Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been."

Billings, Josh on experience
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"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."

Billings, Josh on life
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"God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering."

Augustine, St. on adversity
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"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on relationship
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"The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on wisdom
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"We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds."

Grant, Hanmer Parsons on adversity
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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us."

Augustine, St. on love
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"This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections."

Augustine, St. on perfection
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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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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."

Wilde, Oscar on discontent
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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

Wilde, Oscar on democracy
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on acceptance
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward."

Gallagher, Robert C. on adversity
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"Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know."

Roux, Joseph on science
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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on age and aging
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"Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas."

Proverb, American on influence
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"Thoughts are forces."

Trine, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking   

"Do you want to be power in the world? Then be yourself."

Trine, Ralph Waldo on self-expression   

"There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts."

Roux, Joseph on cries and crying
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"Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad."

Roux, Joseph on conflict
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"There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on greatness
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"Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on love
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"Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on purpose
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"A writer is dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on writers and writing
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"It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane."

Anderson, Margaret on writers and writing
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"To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do."

Aristotle on writers and writing
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"If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?"

Levine, Stephen on love
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"Habits change into character."

Ovid on habit
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"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid on hope
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