"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

Aristotle on Action
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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

Aristotle on Action
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on Action
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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Aikman, Leo on Action
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"The way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."

Twain, Mark on Health
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"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."

Twain, Mark on Health
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"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy."

Twain, Mark on Happiness
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"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man."

Twain, Mark on Gratitude
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"Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody."

Twain, Mark on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old."

Twain, Mark on Age and Aging
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"Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."

Twain, Mark on Heaven
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"It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."

Twain, Mark on Honor
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"Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now."

Twain, Mark on Insanity
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"When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."

Twain, Mark on Insanity
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"In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that."

Twain, Mark on Journalism and Journalists
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"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so."

Twain, Mark on Knowledge
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"The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter."

Twain, Mark on Laughter
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"Laughter is the greatest weapon we have and we, as humans, use it the least."

Twain, Mark on Laughter
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"Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."

Twain, Mark on Laughter
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"I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. [About a politician who had recently died]"

Twain, Mark on Funerals
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"Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."

Twain, Mark on Friends and Friendship
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

Twain, Mark on Forgiveness
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"Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own."

Wilson, Thomas on Friends and Friendship
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"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue."

Plato on Music
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"If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing."

Proverb, Zimbabwe on Music
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"Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music."

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio on Music
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on Death and Dying
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"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on Desire
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"Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

Twain, Mark on Education
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"The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."

Twain, Mark on Enjoyment
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"Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy."

Twain, Mark on Forgiveness
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on Fools and Foolishness
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."

Twain, Mark on Fools and Foolishness
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on Facts
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"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."

Twain, Mark on Experience
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"There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!"

Twain, Mark on Example
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on Education
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"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."

Nash, Ogden on Age and Aging
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"Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. You've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. No wonder you feel that lost sensation. You're sunk from a riot of relaxation."

Nash, Ogden on Weekends
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"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."

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