"There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference."

Montalvo, Juan on apathy
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"Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants."

Winchell, Walter on criticism
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"Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes crimes out of things that are not crimes."

Lincoln, Abraham on control
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"There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise."

Ash, Mary Kay on praise
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"We treat our people like royalty. If you honor and serve the people who work for you, they will honor and serve you."

Ash, Mary Kay on royalty
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"The friendship that can cease has never been real."

Jerome, St. on friends and friendship
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"In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."

Bible on wisdom
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"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it."

Shaw, George Bernard on liberty
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"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others"

Orwell, George on uncategorised   

"Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away."

Proverb, Persian on death
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"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on government
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"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America."

Carter, Jimmy on human rights
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"Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause."

Hugo, Victor on argument
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"The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds."

Kennedy, John F. on knowledge
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"Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on opportunity
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"In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality."

Geneen, Harold S. on business
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"You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best."

Thomas, John M. on character
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"Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice."

Morita, Akio on mistakes
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"A room without books is like a body without a soul."

Cicero, Marcus T. on books - reading
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"Ask for the old paths, where the way is good, and walk in it."

Bible on direction
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"Anything that changes your values changes your behavior."

Sheehan, George on value
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"Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor."

Luther, Martin on music
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"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."

Pound, Ezra on genius
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"If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are."

Saying, Zen on understanding
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"I want to be all used up when I die."

Shaw, George Bernard on death
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"Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian."

Mencken, H. L. on opera   

"A person hears only what they understand."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on listening
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"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship
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"The real secret to success is enthusiasm."

Chrysler, Walter on enthusiasm
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"This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on wisdom
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"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor."

Carnegie, Andrew on ability
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"There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself."

Carnegie, Andrew on self-improvement
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"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do."

Carnegie, Andrew on action
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"For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People."

Wilde, Oscar on despotism
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"She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit."

Wilde, Oscar on grace
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

Wilde, Oscar on excellence
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"An ordinary man away from home giving advice."

Wilde, Oscar on experts
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