"Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible."

Hoffer, Eric on ambition
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"Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment."

Euripides on fortune   

"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

Twain, Mark on right and rightness
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"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world."

Hazlitt, William on action
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"It is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

Bentham, Jeremy on happiness   

"Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make."

Bachelard, Gaston on physics   

"Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve."

Shakespeare, William on comedy and comedians   

"Oaths are the fossils of piety."

Santayana, George on swearing   

"Stability is not immobility."

Metternich, Klemens Von on security   

"Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen."

Joineriana on books - reading
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"The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves."

Proverb on soul
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"Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."

Hoffer, Eric on faith
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"As the Fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"My family begins with me, your family ends with you."

Iphicrates on family   

"Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission."

Weil, Simone on oppression   

"Personality is everything in art and poetry."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on art   

"Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor."

Hoffer, Eric on prejudice   

"The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on worry
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"It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle."

Schwarzkopf, Norman on heroes and heroism
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"I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on right and rightness   

"There is no wisdom like frankness."

Disraeli, Benjamin on candor
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"Without alienation, there can be no politics."

Miller, Arthur on alienation
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"Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on thoughts and thinking   

"Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on self-pity
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"Once you're physically capable of winning a gold medal, the rest is ninety percent mental."

Johnson, Patti on competition   

"I pass the test that says a man who isn't a socialist at 20 has no heart, and a man who is a socialist at 40 has no head."

Casey, William on socializing and socialism   

"You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders."

Proverb, English on parents and parenting
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"Time is the justice that examines all offenders. [As You Like It]"

Shakespeare, William on justice
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"I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of."

Darrow, Clarence on ignorance
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"Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on power   

"Those who have free seats at a play hiss first."

Proverb, Chinese on criticism
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"Force is not a remedy."

Bright, John on force   

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"The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet."

Rich, Adrienne on feminism
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"In a revolution, as in a novel. the most difficult part to invent is the end."

Tocqueville, Alexis De on evolution   

"Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways, women, gambling, and farming. My family chose the slowest one."

Pope John XXIII on nationalities and nationalism   

"It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor."

Hoffer, Eric on neighbors
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"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. "

Hemingway, Ernest on uncategorised
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"If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it."

Buchwald, Art on protest
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"You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you."

Carnegie, Dale on business
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"Poverty is the step-mother of genius."

Billings, Josh on poverty and the poor
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