"Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life."

Wilde, Oscar on failure
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"Dictators never invent their own opportunities."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on dictators and dictatorship   

"Biggest damfool mistake I ever made. "

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on uncategorised   

"Those who know how to think need no teachers."

Gandhi, Mahatma on teacher
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"When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting."

Jerome, St. on fasting
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"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

Lincoln, Abraham on slavery
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"This is the fourth?"

Jefferson, Thomas on famous last words
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"Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on happiness
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"A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours."

Berle, Milton on committees and meetings
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"There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening."

Proverb, American on people
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"Great is the victory that is gained without bloodshed."

Proverb on victory   

"What doth it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?"

Bible on power
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"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

Orwell, George on war
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"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not."

Kennedy, Robert F. on dream
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"Science is nothing but perception."

Plato on science
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"Familiarity breeds contempt."

Syrus, Publilius on familiarity
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"Common sense is judgment without reflection, shared by an entire class, an entire nation, or the entire human race."

Vico, Giambattista on common sense   

"Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance."

Vico, Giambattista on decadence   

"Uniform ideas originating among entire peoples unknown to each other must have a common ground of truth."

Vico, Giambattista on consensus   

"It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same."

Melbourne, Lord on consensus   

"To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects."

Thatcher, Margaret on consensus
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"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

Washington, George on freedom
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"The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows."

Curtis, Donald on planning   

"Without discipline, there is no life at all."

Hepburn, Katharine on discipline
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"Death and taxes are unsolved engineering problems"

Machado, Romana on problems   

"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity"

Jonson, Ben on adversity
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"Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on hypocrisy
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"Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all."

Gide, Andre on humankind   

"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

Hoffer, Eric on minorities
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"Democracy without morality is impossible."

Kemp, Jack on democracy   

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

Lee, Harper on courage
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"The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips."

Getty, J. Paul on excellence   

"Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person."

Virgil on virtue
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"By continually scolding someone, they in time become accustomed to it and despise your reproof."

Proverb, French on correction
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"The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself."

Voltaire on surprises
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"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."

Seneca on goals
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"There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together."

Billings, Josh on brevity
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"The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way."

Billings, Josh on fools and foolishness
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"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on effort
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