"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be."

Wooden, John on failure
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"In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat."

Evans, Harold on journalism and journalists   

"I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work."

Edison, Thomas A. on work
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"Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held."

Hall, Milton on learning
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"Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it."

Mencken, H. L. on patriotism
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"I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe."

Twain, Mark on truth
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"When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again."

Khrushchev, Nikita on business   

"In a world where there is so much to be done, I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do."

Dix, Dorothy on service
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"Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it."

Horace on adversity
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on secrets
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"If you think about yourself then you've lost sight of the ball."

Willesee, Mike on selfishness   

"While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse."

Terence on mind   

"The education of the will is the object of our existence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on power   

"It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy."

Sidney, Sir Philip on praise   

"Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect."

McMillan, Terry on life
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"God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that he is so."

Plotinus on god   

"Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners."

Carnegie, Dale on speakers and speaking   

"Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me."

Pope, Alexander on mercy
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"The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion."

Burke, Edmund on liberty   

"The due process of law as we use it, I believe, rests squarely on the liberal idea of conflict and resolution."

Trapp, June L. on law and lawyers   

"You have endured worse things; God will grant an end even to these."

Virgil on adversity
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"Tranquility is the old man's milk."

Jefferson, Thomas on tranquility   

"Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought."

Pope, Alexander on memory
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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."

Lee, Harper on understanding
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"Everybody is ignorant -- only on different subjects."

Rogers, Will on ignorance
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"Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose."

Proverb, Turkish on humankind
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"Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards."

Franklin, Benjamin on marriage
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"Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten."

Otway, Thomas on honesty   

"... ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

Kennedy, John F. on patriotism   

"Theoretical principles must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages."

Pitt, William on theory   

"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

Doren, Mark Van on teacher
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"The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most."

Carnegie, Dale on communication
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"Here lies an Atheist: All Dressed Up and No Place to Go."

Epitaph on atheism
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"The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service."

Caine, Mark on leadership   

"Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding."

Maria, Queen on fashion   

"Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing."

Watson, Lilian Eichler on happiness   

"The only completely consistent people are the dead."

Huxley, Aldous on consistency   

"Let justice be done through the heavens fall."

Maxim, Roman on justice   

"What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on change   

"Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does."

Dane, Frank on home
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