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"Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power."

Holland, Josiah Gilbert on responsibility
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"He who has never hoped can never despair."

Shaw, George Bernard on hope
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"Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs."

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De on body    Share

"When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on crisis
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"One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer."

Proverb on prayer
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"The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else."

Jensen, Andrew on courage
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"Man does what he can, God does what he will."

Proverb on god
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"The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief."

Carlyle, Thomas on belief
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"One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on art    Share

"The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything."

Iacocca, Lee on concentration
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"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."

Morrison, Van on music
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"When a blind man bears the standard, pity those who follow."

Proverb, French on leadership    Share

"All cruelty springs from weakness."

Seneca on weakness
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"No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness."

Aristotle on madness
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"Better to burn out than rust out."

Young, Neil on work
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"Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life."

Hoffer, Eric on hatred
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"To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better."

Claudius on wish and wishing
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"Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts."

Thoreau, Henry David on thoughts and thinking
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"I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could."

Welles, Orson on behavior
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"Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river."

Hull, Cordell on insults
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"You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction."

Crane, George W. on mind
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"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel."

Hill, Napoleon on perseverance
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"If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers."

Halifax, Edward F. on law and lawyers
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"We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."

Patton, George S. on leadership    Share

"In politics, nothing is contemptible."

Disraeli, Benjamin on politics
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"Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on misfortunes    Share

"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited."

Hoover, Herbert Clark on leadership    Share

"Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."

Washington, George on peace
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"Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved."

Thucydides on ignorance
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"Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known."

Whipple, Edwin P. on knowledge    Share

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

More, Hannah on obstacles    Share

"To do no evil is good, to intend none better."

Claudius on evil
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"Goals help you channel your energy into action."

Brown, Les on goals
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"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."

Socrates on riches
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"Educate people without religion and you make them but clever devils."

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington on education
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"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."

Aesop on appearance
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"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."

Franklin, Benjamin on books - reading
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"So free we seem, so fettered we are!"

Browning, Robert on freedom
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