"Hunger is the best sauce."

Proverb, Italian on hunger   

"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children."

Gibran, Kahlil on wisdom
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"There are three subjects on which the knowledge of the medical profession in general is woefully weak; they are manners, morals, and medicine."

Lieberman, Gerald F. on medicine
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"She is a wife who is the soul of her husband."

Hitopadesa on marriage   

"Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to."

Billings, Josh on control
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"He who goes to law for a sheep loses his cow."

Proverb, Spanish on law and lawyers
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"Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."

Latimer, Bishop Hugh on art   

"If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail."

Heraclitus on expectation
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"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on planning
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"The love of truth lies at the root of much humor."

Davies, Robertson on truth
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"If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments -- we'd have the Ten Suggestions."

Bradbury, Malcolm on liberals
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"The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."

Bacon, Francis on nature
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"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

Lincoln, Abraham on voting
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"It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and angry woman. [Proverbs 21:19]"

Bible on anger
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"Respect is love in plain clothes."

Byrne, Frankie on respectability
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"One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment."

Shain, Merle on adversity
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"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it."

Seneca on gratitude
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"How we think shows through in how we act. Attitudes are mirrors of the mind. They reflect thinking."

Schwartz, David J. on circumstance
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"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism."

Osler, Sir William on ignorance
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true."

Demosthenes on gullibility   

"When difficulties are overcome they begin blessing."

Proverb on difficulties
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

Wilde, Oscar on criticism
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"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost."

Foch, Ferdinand on failure
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"We ask advice but we mean approbation."

Colton, Charles Caleb on advice   

"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on power
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"I add this, that rational ability without education has more often raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability"

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the blasts of fortune."

Penn, William on ambition   

"Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God."

Cicero, Marcus T. on superstition   

"Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on sympathy
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"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed."

Bunuel, Luis on patriotism   

"Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant taste of death but once."

Shakespeare, William on war
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"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation."

Maugham, W. Somerset on resignation
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"To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart."

Laird, Donald on motivation
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"Patience will achieve more than force."

Burke, Edmund on patience
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"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

Stowe, Harriet Beecher on regret
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"Charity sees the need, not the cause."

Proverb, German on charity
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"Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win."

Kozol, Jonathan on battles
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"Lying and stealing are next door neighbors."

Proverb, Arabian on lies and lying   

"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."

Seneca on quotations
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"You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee."

Holcomb, John H. on action
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