"The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground."

Churchill, Winston on leadership
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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

Paine, Thomas on moderation
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"The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."

Shaw, George Bernard on opportunity
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"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilisation. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised   

"Every great person has first learned how to obey, whom to obey, and when to obey."

Ward, William A. on obedience
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"He has committed the crime who profits by it."

Seneca on crime and criminals
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"Insanity destroys reason, but not wit."

Emmons, Nathaniel on insanity
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"It is easy to rule over the good."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on government
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"It is easier to believe than to doubt."

Martin, Everett D. on belief   

"These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on time   

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out..."

Collier, Robert on success
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"In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend."

Aeschylus on tyranny
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"May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies."

Voltaire on friends and friendship
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"Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."

Disraeli, Benjamin on grief
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"Why is it that right-wing bastards always stand shoulder to shoulder in solidarity, while liberals fall out among themselves?"

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny on liberals   

"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."

Edison, Thomas A. on results
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"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quiet conscience."

Euripides on science
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"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on music
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"If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave."

Cato The Elder on control
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"They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent."

Franklin, Benjamin on vigilance
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"Religion enables us to ignore nothingness and get on with the jobs of life."

Updike, John on religion
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"Each is responsible for his own actions."

Hunt, H. L. on responsibility
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"Never complain and never explain. "

Disraeli, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"Eureka! I've got it."

Archimedes on ideas
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"It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on government   

"Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government."

Washington, George on government
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"But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon."

Milton, John on secrets
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"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold."

Keller, Helen on anger
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"Whenever [I] hear any one, arguing for slavery I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised   

"He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse."

Byron, Lord on embarrassment   

"Honor your commitments with integrity."

Brown, Les on integrity
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"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you."

Horace on anger
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"A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time."

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier on mind   

"The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;"

Proverb, Chinese on doctors
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"Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on destiny
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"The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete."

Mcluhan, Marshall on automobiles   

"Eating words has never given me indigestion."

Churchill, Winston on words
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"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

Barrymore, John on dream
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"People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them."

Fromme, Dr. Allan on work
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"I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself."

Moore, Thomas on law and lawyers