"Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on pollution   

"Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all."

Alexander The Great on unity
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"There is nothing impossible to him who will try."

Alexander The Great on impossibility
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"For it is in giving that we receive."

Francis of Assisi, St. on giving
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"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!"

Shaw, George Bernard on experience   

"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

Shaw, George Bernard on democracy
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"If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."

Shaw, George Bernard on economy and economics
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"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."

Shaw, George Bernard on experience
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"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."

Shaw, George Bernard on forgiveness
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"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."

Daniels, Josephus on defeat
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"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on education
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"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."

Conrad, Joseph on humor   

"If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity."

Kennedy, John F. on conflict
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"Never explain -- your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway."

Hubbard, Elbert on nations
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"He that respects himself is safe from others; He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on self-respect
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"First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."

Carnegie, Dale on preparation
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"Research serves to make building stones out of stumbling blocks."

Little, Arthur D. on research   

"The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger."

Jackson, Andrew on courage
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"The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed."

Parker, Dorothy on words
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"To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?"

Graham, Katherine on joy
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"The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows."

Socrates on death
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"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income."

Flynn, Errol on habit   

"What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?"

Hoffer, Eric on conventionality   

"He that falls by himself never cries."

Proverb, Turkish on complaints and complaining
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"It takes no genius to observe that a one man band never gets very big."

Garfield, Charles A. on unity   

"Ideas move fast when their time comes."

Heilbrun, Carolyn on ideas
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"Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come."

Gates, W. I. E. on quotations   

"The science of today is the technology of tomorrow."

Teller, Edward on science
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"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

Gandhi, Mahatma on power
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"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."

Aesop on enemies
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"A liberated woman is one who has sex before marriage and a job after."

Steinem, Gloria on feminism
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"Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world."

Epictetus on lies and lying
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"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

Moliere on obstacles
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"The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on purpose   

"From politics it was an easy step to silence."

Austen, Jane on silence
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"Conceit is incompatible with understanding."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on conceit
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"Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it."

Mencken, H. L. on remorse
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"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."

Mill, John Stuart on conservatives
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"Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood."

Trilling, Lionel on obscurity
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"Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide; In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side."

Lowell, James Russell on decisions
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