"Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins."

Twain, Mark on art   

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

Drucker, Peter F. on the future
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"As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe that the possibility exists."

Salter, William on faith
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"Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on vengeance
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"This gives force to the strong -- that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on self-reliance   

"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."

Szasz, Thomas on adulthood
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"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."

Aristotle on poetry and poets
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"If you want to look with only one eye then you will only see part of the picture."

Williams, Les on vision   

"The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego."

Frye, Northrop on beauty
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"Jaw-jaw is better than war-war."

Macmillan, Harold on negotiation   

"If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host."

Heatter, Gabriel on happiness
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"Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks."

Euripides on time   

"The golden age is before us, not behind us."

Simon, St. on age and aging   

"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."

Edison, Thomas A. on ideas
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"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."

Jefferson, Thomas on soldier
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"Whoever said, It's not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost."

Navratilova, Martina on losers and losing
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"Happiness is unrepentant pleasure."

Socrates on happiness   

"You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes."

Shaw, George Bernard on power
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"This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven."

Lodge Jr., Henry Cabot on nations
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"So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on ambition
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"We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes."

Gray, John Edward on problems
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"A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth."

Lao-Tzu on growth
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"No one wants advice, only corroboration."

Steinbeck, John on advice
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"Aggressive fighting for the right is the greatest sport in the world."

Roosevelt, Theodore on right and rightness   

"There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it."

Cicero, Marcus T. on money   

"To see your drama clearly is to be liberated from it."

Keyes Jr., Ken on circumstance
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"Morality sticks faster when presented in brief sayings than when presented in long discourse."

Immermann on teacher   

"A good speaker makes a good liar."

Proverb, German on speakers and speaking
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"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."

Ruskin, John on success
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"Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on freedom   

"He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself."

Cicero, Marcus T. on criticism
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"There is no coming to consciousness without pain."

Jung, Carl on pain
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"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house."

Gabor, Zsa Zsa on divorce
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"It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable."

Moliere on responsibility
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"To shun one's cross is to make it heavier."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on responsibility
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"I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself."

Anderson, Walter on responsibility
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"No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it."

Aristotle on responsibility   

"The way to avoid responsibility is to say, I've got responsibilities."

Bach, Richard on responsibility
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"The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands."

Bacon, Francis on responsibility
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"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself."

Bell, Alexander Graham on responsibility