"The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemans speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss. "

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"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing."

Voltaire on doctors
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"When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy."

Rushdie, Salman on thoughts and thinking
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"If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command."

Seneca on power   

"There are two kinds of men who never amount to much -- those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else."

Curtis, Cyrus H. K on humankind   

"Courage in danger is half the battle."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on courage   

"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not."

Twain, Mark on memory
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"The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on victory   

"Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."

Mill, John Stuart on originality
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"To create something you must be something."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on creativity
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"We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it."

Whorf, Benjamin Lee on language
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"The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it."

Rohr, Richard on happiness
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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

Buddha on happiness
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"The mob has many heads but no brains."

Proverb, English on mobs   

"For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. [St. Paul In Philippians 4:11]"

Bible on contentment
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"Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity."

Augustine, St. on habit
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"It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities."

Hoffer, Eric on opportunity   

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on silence   

"Where one door closes, another opens."

Quixote, Don on opportunity   

"I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom."

Patton, George S. on failure
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"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."

Wilde, Oscar on prayer
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"Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth."

Pascal, Blaise on contradiction
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"It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."

Wilde, Oscar on confession
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"Advice is like castor oil, easy to give, but dreadful to take."

Billings, Josh on advice
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"Without friends no one would choose to live."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on architecture   

"He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things."

Halifax, Edward F. on chance
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"It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out."

Rossner, Judith on courage
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"Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."

James, William on fatigue
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"A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him."

Pound, Ezra on jesus christ
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"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong."

Carlyle, Thomas on decisions
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"The language of truth is unadorned and always simple."

Ammianus, Marcellinus on language
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"Our power is in our ability to decide."

Fuller, Buckminster on power
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"We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."

Proverb, Native American on ecology
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"I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original."

Johnson, Samuel on originality
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"One man with courage makes a majority."

Jackson, Andrew on courage
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"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself."

Galilei, Galileo on teacher
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"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

Jefferson, Thomas on tyranny
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"When the rich wage war it is the poor who die."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on poverty and the poor
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"A friend you have to buy won't be worth what you pay for him."

Prentice, George D. on friends and friendship