"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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"Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets."

Moustakas, Clark on acceptance
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"Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself."

Balzac, Honore De on acceptance
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"If a person lacks self-acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him."

Pike, James Albert on acceptance
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"If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art."

Picasso, Pablo on art   

"Life is a question asked by God about the way he exists."

Joshi, Kedar on life
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"O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad."

Shakespeare, William on madness
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"In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes."

Ashley, Elizabeth on love
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"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on love
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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle on love
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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels."

Augustine, St. on love
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"As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears."

Lu Xun on action   

"Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it."

Allen, Woody on love
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"Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off."

Chandler, Raymond on alcohol and alcoholism   

"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication."

Byron, Lord on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts."

Dunne, Finley Peter on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Alcohol is barren. The words a man speaks in the night of drunkenness fade like the darkness itself at the coming of day."

Duras, Marguerite on alcohol and alcoholism
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"It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it."

Fields, W. C. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming."

Fields, W. C. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes."

Fields, W. C. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation."

Duras, Marguerite on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Somebody left the cork out of my lunch."

Fields, W. C. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into."

Fuller, Thomas on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Wine hath drowned more men than the sea."

Fuller, Thomas on alcohol and alcoholism
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"There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain."

Johnson, Samuel on gratitude   

"The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little."

Johnson, Samuel on greatness   

"Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on greatness   

"The first element of greatness is fundamental humbleness (this should not be confused with servility); the second is freedom from self; the third is intrepid courage, which, taken in its widest interpretation, generally goes with truth; and the fourth --the power to love --although I have put it last, is the rarest."

Asquith, Margot on greatness
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"The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender."

Booth, William on greatness
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"Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after."

Byron, Lord on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on greatness
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