"Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself."

Voltaire on reform   

"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."

Huxley, Thomas H. on right and rightness
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"I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing."

Wilde, Oscar on argument   

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"So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants."

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius on soldier
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"An unemployed existence is a worse negation of life than death itself."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on unemployment
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"Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on prayer
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"Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on fortune
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"The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor."

Mencken, H. L. on crime and criminals   

"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."

Kennedy, Robert F. on law and lawyers
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"'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife."

Shakespeare, William on army and navy
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"What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore."

Dahlberg, Edward on lust
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"We must become the change we want to see."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed."

Colton, Charles Caleb on belief   

"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."

Nightingale, Earl on goals
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"If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me."

Moody, Dwight L. on reputation
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"You can never learn less, you can only learn more."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on learning
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"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

Mencken, H. L. on cynics and cynicism
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"As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay."

Sallust on change   

"When it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change."

Falkland, Lucius C. on change
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on giving
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"What is a hero without love for mankind."

Lessing, Doris on heroes and heroism
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"Never, never, never, never give up."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"We are as near to heaven by sea as by land."

Gilbert, Sir Humphrey on army and navy   

"To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully."

Edwards, Tryon on enthusiasm
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"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food."

Hazlitt, William on wit
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"Heaven never helps the men who will not act."

Sophocles on action
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"A problem clearly stated is a problem half solved."

Brande, Dorothea on problems
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"The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective."

Buffett, Warren on simplicity
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"Do not trust to the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged."

Cromwell, Oliver on approval   

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on character
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"It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture."

Franklin, Benjamin on eyes
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"A person's fate is their own temper."

Disraeli, Benjamin on temperament
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"Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality."

Richter, Jean Paul on death
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"When the will is ready the feet are light."

Proverb on power   

"You can't pray a lie."

Twain, Mark on prayer
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"There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends."

Boswell, James on laughter
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"The masses have no habit of self reliance or original action."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on masses   

"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started."

Trotman, Dawson on procrastination
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"Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on talent
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"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."

Disraeli, Benjamin on politics
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