"The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail."

Land, Edwin H. on creativity
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"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be."

Carlyle, Thomas on character
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"Cry havoc! and let slip the dogs of war, that this foul deed shall smell above the earth with carrion men, groaning for burial."

Shakespeare, William on war
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"Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality."

Churchill, Winston on communism and socialism
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"Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels."

Marden, Orison Swett on habit
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"So much alarmed that she is quite alarming, All Giggle, Blush, half Pertness, and half Pout."

Byron, Lord on adolescence   

"For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught."

Dioum, Baba on love
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"We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves."

Pascal, Blaise on conflict
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"The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them."

Butler, Samuel on writers and writing
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"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on action
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"What you are will show in what you do."

Edison, Thomas A. on action
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"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

Keller, Helen on work
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"Religion is the opium of the masses."

Marx, Karl on religion
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"Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough."

Horton, Doug on thoughts and thinking
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"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on greatness
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"Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters."

Proverb, Czech. on wives
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"You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on time
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"Most people would rather die than think: many do."

Russell, Bertrand on death
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"I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit, and to mothball his opinions."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on generals
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"To change and change for the better are two different things"

Proverb, German on change
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"One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on agreement
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"I don't think a prostitute is more moral than a wife, but they are doing the same thing."

Edinburgh, Prince Philip, Duke of on wives   

"In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us."

Young, Brigham on friends and friendship   

"The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich."

Saadi on charity   

"Danger breeds best on too much confidence."

Corneille, Pierre on confidence
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"Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies."

Gandhi, Mahatma on faith
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"To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle."

Confucius on perception
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"I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots."

Yeats, William Butler on family
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"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."

Bacon, Francis on virtue   

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"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive."

Churchill, Winston on charity   

"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."

Rogers, Will on politics   

"In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one."

Burgh, James on prosperity
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"All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise over ourselves."

Cotvos on power
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"Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet."

Proverb, African on fools and foolishness
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"It is not possible for one to teach others who cannot teach his own family."

Confucius on family
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"The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be."

Socrates on glory
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"A genius is one who can do anything except make a living."

Adams, Joey Lauren on genius
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"I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling."

Melville, Herman on fellowship   

"One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."

Feather, William on happiness
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"No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does."

Brookner, Anita on confession
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