"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field."

Bohr, Niels on experts
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"The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is."

Stein, Ben on reality
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"A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward."

Bennett, William John on kindness
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"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."

Hume, David on thoughts and thinking
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"It is the passions that do and undo everything."

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier on passion
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down."

Proverb, Chinese on simplicity
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"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort."

Shaw, George Bernard on art   

"The light shines in the darkness and the darkness comprehended it not."

Bible on light
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"Giving is the business of the rich."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on generosity   

"He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on aid and assistance   

"Singular indeed that the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised   

"You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise."

Newman, James on circumstance
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"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

Mencken, H. L. on truth
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"Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art."

Hijazi, Muhammad on politics
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"It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin."

Seneca on sin   

"If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all."

Rather, Dan on trials
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"Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it."

Twain, Mark on custom   

"Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it."

Proverb, Italian on welfare
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"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. "

Burke, Edmund on uncategorised
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"Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man."

Battista, Orlando A. on knowledge
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"Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked."

Berra, Yogi on popularity
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"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue."

Goldwater, Barry on liberty
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"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh."

Chesterfield, Lord on knowledge   

"If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do."

Ball, Lucille on effort
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"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

Disraeli, Benjamin on ignorance
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"The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on wisdom
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"Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self."

Gibran, Kahlil on mind
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"There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few."

Poe, Edgar Allan on song and singing   

"Every man must get to Heaven his own way."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on individuality
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"Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy."

Bacon, Francis on life
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"Many a man never fails because he never tries."

Macewan, Norman on failure   

"A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on."

Watt, James on lies and lying
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"Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God."

Twain, Mark on opinions
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"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."

Disraeli, Benjamin on criticism
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"No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more."

Augustine, St. on duty
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"A hair divides what is false and true."

Khayyam, Omar on truth
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"Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled."

Johnson, Samuel on respectability
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"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause."

Beecher, Henry Ward on duty