"Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are."

Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme on habit
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"Every why has a wherefore."

Shakespeare, William on purpose
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"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round."

Hogan, Ben on joy
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"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary."

Luther, Martin on art
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"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things."

Bell, Lawrence D. on things and little things
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"I'm the only president you've got."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on president   

"Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."

Hill, Napoleon on failure
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"Youth is a period of missed opportunities."

Connolly, Cyril on youth
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"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

Disraeli, Benjamin on action
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"Failure is not an option."

Movie, Apollo 13 on failure
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"Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance."

Dempsey, Jack on chance
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"Educated risks are the key to success."

Olsten, William on risk
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"Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act."

Feldman, Marty on comedy and comedians   

"Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate's claws."

Tusser, Thomas on conformity   

"What you hear repeatedly you will eventually believe."

Murdock, Mike on belief
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"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal."

Dante Alighieri on beauty
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"Those who seek happiness miss it, and those who discuss it, lack it."

Jackson, Holbrook on happiness
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"There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on evil
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"Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do."

Gray, Albert on winners and winning
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"By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome"

Proverb on evil
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"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on example   

"The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state."

Ousterhout, John on improvement   

"As he was valiant, I honor him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him."

Shakespeare, William on ambition   

"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault."

Kissinger, Henry on bores and boredom   

"As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on wealth   

"None loves the messenger who brings bad news."

Sophocles on news
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"Where there is great love there are always miracles."

Cather, Willa on miracles
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"Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on greatness
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"The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on victory
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"Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual."

Buchanan, Patrick on catholicism   

"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind."

Pasteur, Louis on preparation
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"Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse."

Seneca on economy and economics
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"He who awaits much can expect little."

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia on procrastination
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"Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist -- it reduces him to his fighting weight."

Billings, Josh on adversity   

"Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies."

Montesquieu, Charles De on luxury
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"The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully."

Carlyle, Thomas on courage   

"The nobler the blood the less the pride."

Proverb, Danish on pride   

"Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one."

Halm, Fredrich on soul
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"They make a wilderness and call it peace."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on peace   

"The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him."

Lincoln, Abraham on self-improvement
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