"One great lesson that we can learn from its systematic absence in the work of the grand theorists is that every self-conscious thinker must at all times be aware of--and hence be able to control--the levels of abstraction on which he is working. The capacity to shuttle between levels of abstraction, with ease and with clarity, is a signal mark of the imaginative and systematic thinker."

Mills, C. Wright on theory   

"A woman who takes things from a man is called a girlfriend, a man who takes things from a woman is called a gigolo."

Stein, Ruthie on women
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"No one has ever learned fully to know themselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on self discovery
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"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it."

Butler, Samuel on faith
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"Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily."

Brisbane, Arthur on solitude
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"Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general."

Novalis on marriage
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."

Camus, Albert on friends and friendship
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"Power is nothing if you don't have someone to share it with."

Berazaluce, Manuel on
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"Every man must get to Heaven his own way."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on individuality
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"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."

Edwards, Flora on giving
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"A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends."

Byron, Lord on friends and friendship
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"I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself."

Conrad, Joseph on youth
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death."

Twain, Mark on despair
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"When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away."

Proverb, English on rebellion
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"The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will."

Haggai, John on god
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"He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on enemies
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"Wealth unused might as well not exist."

Aesop on wealth
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"Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on leadership
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"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."

Augustine, St. on charity   

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Gibran, Kahlil on suffering
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"The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way."

Robbins, Anthony on achievement
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"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."

Hull, Raymond on approval
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"Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"All honor's wounds are self-inflicted."

Carnegie, Andrew on honor
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"My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy."

Ketchel, Holly on happiness
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"A man can learn only two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people."

Rogers, Will on learning
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"The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office."

Rogers, Will on memory
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"You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness."

Rogers, Will on memory
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"In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough."

Rogers, Will on life   

"Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches."

Rogers, Will on liberty
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"Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive, notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important, that I matter!!"

Hanks, Marion D. on importance
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"The simple lack of her is more to me than others presence."

Thomas, Edward on importance
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"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."

Thomas, Edward on past
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"Its easy to be an angel when you are in heaven."

Unknown, Source on angels
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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on achievement
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"The best relation is the one in which your LOVE for each other exceeds your NEED for each other."

Unknown on   

"It’s Never Enough to Be Against Something - You Must Also Be For Something Else"

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"Any training that does not include the emotions, mind and body is incomplete; knowledge fades without feeling."

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