"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on conversation
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"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."

Marx, Groucho on choice
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"Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful -- just as one is more angry for being told one is angry."

Gerould, Katherine F. on compliments
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"Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow."

Young, Brigham on commitment   

"True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right."

Young, Brigham on right and rightness   

"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the worlds work, and the power to appreciate life."

Young, Brigham on education
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"Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast."

Peale, Norman Vincent on happiness   

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."

Franklin, Benjamin on planning
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"Clean your finger before you point at my spots."

Franklin, Benjamin on hypocrisy
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"Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life."

Franklin, Benjamin on happiness
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"It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."

Franklin, Benjamin on habit
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"There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."

Franklin, Benjamin on greatness
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"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Adams, John on freedom
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"Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. Source unknown A spark of kindness starts a fire of love."

Unknown, Source on smile
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"Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather."

Ruskin, John on weather
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"In politics the middle way is none at all."

Adams, John on politics
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"One can not be an American by going about saying that one is an American. It is necessary to feel America, like America, love America and then work."

O'Keeffe, Georgia on america