"There is a crack in everything God has made."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on god
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"It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake."

Mencken, H. L. on belief
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"The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves."

Mill, John Stuart on feminism
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"There is no terror in a bang, only in the anticipation of it."

Hitchcock, Alfred on fear
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"Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son."

Proverb, Russian on ancestry
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"The simplest school boy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life."

Renan, Ernest on progress   

"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on doubt
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"Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. [Colossians 4:6]"

Bible on speech
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"Wisdom comes by disillusionment."

Santayana, George on wisdom
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"The greatest remedy for anger is delay."

Seneca on anger
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"If I were to say, God, why me? about the bad things, then I should have said, God, why me? about the good things that happened in my life."

Ashe, Arthur on complaints and complaining
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"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."

Ballou, Hosea on truth
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"The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen."

Iacocca, Lee on action
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"Talent works, genius creates."

Schumann, Robert on talent   

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."

Einstein, Albert on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Life without a friend is death without a witness."

Proverb, Spanish on solitude
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"Ask with urgency and passion."

Balfour, Arthur James on ask   

"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?"

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."

Bacon, Francis on courtesy
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"Victory and defeat are each of the same price."

Jefferson, Thomas on victory
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"Blessed is that man who has found his work."

Hubbard, Elbert on work
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"The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on leadership
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"An honest man's the noblest work of God."

Pope, Alexander on honesty
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"A strong foe is better than a weak friend."

Dahlberg, Edward on enemies
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"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."

London, Jack on circumstance
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"Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others."

Proverb, Pennsylvania Dutch on faults
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"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit."

Shay, R. E. on luck
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"It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it."

Pliny The Elder on reputation   

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"England is paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women."

Burton, Robert on nationalities and nationalism   

"It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on detail
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"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."

Cicero, Marcus T. on economy and economics   

"By the time we've made it, we've had it."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on health
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"Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen."

Bacon, Francis on speech
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"There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can."

Dyke, Henry Van on life
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"The best armor is to keep out of gunshot."

Bacon, Francis on strategies
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"Nature uses as little as possible of anything."

Kepler, Johannes on nature   

"Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor."

Bacon, Francis on anger
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"Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can."

Wesley, John on money
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"Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends."

Delille, Jacques on friends and friendship
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