"A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory."

Corneille, Pierre on victory
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"Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity."

Ovid on solitude
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"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

Maslow, Abraham H. on change
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"A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned."

Proverb, Arabian on ignorance
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"The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised
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"Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living."

Williams, Carey on youth   

"It isn't what you do, but how you do it."

Wooden, John on excellence
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"If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"What men value in this world is not rights but privileges."

Mencken, H. L. on privilege
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"I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother."

Sheen, Martin on god   

"In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray."

Proverb, German on life
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"A child miseducated is a child lost."

Kennedy, John F. on children
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"The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem."

Irving, Washington on war   

"In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike."

Stowe, Harriet Beecher on desire
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"The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors."

Smiles, Samuel on cooperation
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"Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment."

Robbins, Anthony on fulfillment
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"I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday."

Henry IV on poverty and the poor   

"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."

Carnegie, Dale on courage
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"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity."

Burke, Edmund on religion
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"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."

Pope, Alexander on hatred
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"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on wisdom   

"Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken."

Syrus, Publilius on fortune
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"One chance is all you need."

Owens, Jesse on chance
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"Who dares wins."

Motto of the British Special Air Service on risk
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"Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave"

Hoffenstein, Samuel on hair
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"You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life."

Williams, A.L. on failure
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"When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty."

Gregory The Great, St. on blush
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"A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on civilization
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"An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected."

Herbert, A. P. on miracles
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"Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good."

Johnson, Samuel on originality
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"Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on conversation   

"Talk doesn't cook rice."

Proverb, Chinese on action
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"Women get more unhappy the more they try to liberate themselves."

Bardot, Brigitte on feminism   

"I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out."

Birmingham, Wayne on truth
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"Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose."

Gracian, Baltasar on fights and fighting
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"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."

Gracian, Baltasar on friends and friendship
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"Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone."

Gracian, Baltasar on insanity
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"Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong."

Gracian, Baltasar on anger   

"The wise does at once what the fool does at last."

Gracian, Baltasar on procrastination
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"Respect yourself if you would have others respect you."

Gracian, Baltasar on self-esteem
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