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"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Churchill, Winston on greatness
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"There's small choice in rotten apples."

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship
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"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on deception
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"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

Roosevelt, Theodore on education
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"Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement."

Roosevelt, Theodore on ideals and idealism
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"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything"

Roosevelt, Theodore on mistakes
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"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"

Roosevelt, Theodore on opinions
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"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."

Roosevelt, Theodore on success
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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

Cicero, Marcus T. on gratitude
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"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."

Cicero, Marcus T. on moderation
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"Before beginning, plan carefully."

Cicero, Marcus T. on planning
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"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."

Cicero, Marcus T. on silence
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Cicero, Marcus T. on books - reading
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"Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator."

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"They condemn what they do not understand."

Cicero, Marcus T. on criticism
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"The present moment is as it is. Always. Can you let it be?"

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"The human condition: lost in thought."

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"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

Jefferson, Thomas on brevity
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"In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current."

Jefferson, Thomas on principles
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"How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on duty
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"Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on fortune
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"Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on growth
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"Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ignorance
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"A person hears only what they understand."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on listening
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"Before you can do something you must first be something."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"Trust yourself, then you will know how to live."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on self-esteem
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"Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on understanding    Share

"No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on communication
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"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion."

Lincoln, Abraham on feelings
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"I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better."

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship
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"It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour."

Jefferson, Thomas on law and lawyers
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"Human interaction can be hell. Or it can be a great spiritual practice."

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"When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property."

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