"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."

Prescott, W. B. on patience
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"A good scare is worth more than good advice."

Horace on advice
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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

Blake, William on rules   

"The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored."

La Bruyere, Jean De on bores and boredom   

"We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on relationship
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"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?"

Streisand, Barbara on marriage
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"There are no miracles for those that have no faith in them."

Proverb, French on miracles
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"Age is a high price to pay for maturity."

Stoppard, Tom on age and aging
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"A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway."

Cummings, Fr. Jerome on friends and friendship
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"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on brotherhood
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"Reason gains all people by compelling none."

Hill, Aaron on reason   

"Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other."

Euripides on love
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"Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others."

Franklin, Benjamin on fashion
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"Politicians say they're beefing up our economy. Most don't know beef from pork."

Lowman, Hariold on politics   

"Nothing that is God's is obtainable by money."

Tertullian on money
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"Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary."

Knight, Ray on focus
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"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman."

Burke, Edmund on politics   

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"All things grow with time -- except grief."

Proverb, Jewish on grief
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"Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world."

Malcolm X on education
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"It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on responsibility   

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

Waitley, Denis on choice
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"Revenge is the act of passion, vengeance is an act of justice."

Johnson, Samuel on revenge
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"I gave my life for freedom --this I know: For those who bade me fight had told me so."

Ewer, W. N. on freedom   

"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."

Cock, Barnett on committees and meetings
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"My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me."

Jefferson, Thomas on age and aging
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"I do not speak of what I cannot praise."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on speakers and speaking
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"Be true to the best you know. This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more."

Dresses, H. W. on effort
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"Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry."

Beecher, Henry Ward on anger
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"You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal."

Munro, Barry on purpose
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"How happy is the sailor's life, from coast to coast to roam; in every port he finds a wife, in every land a home."

Bickerstaffe, Isaac on army and navy   

"All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."

King Jr. Martin Luther on progress
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"In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on marriage   

"You can't know too much, but you can say too much."

Coolidge, Calvin on knowledge
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"Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt."

Hoover, Herbert Clark on youth   

"Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind."

Essex, Lord on genius   

"A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny."

Proverb, Yiddish on wealth
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"The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance."

Tracy, Brian on love
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"These are not dark days: these are great days -- the greatest days our country has ever lived."

Churchill, Winston on optimism
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"A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."

Schweitzer, Albert on success
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"The purpose of man is in action not thought."

Carlyle, Thomas on purpose
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