"Union gives strength."

Aesop on cooperation
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"People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on importance
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"Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience."

Hoffer, Eric on glory
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"They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

Warhol, Andy on responsibility
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"Integrity is not a 90 percent thing, not a 95 percent thing; either you have it or you don't."

Scotese, Peter on integrity
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"What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike."

Whitehead, Alfred North on truth
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"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."

Whitehead, Alfred North on familiarity
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"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."

Whitehead, Alfred North on experience
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"In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit."

Whitehead, Alfred North on habit   

"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it."

Whitehead, Alfred North on ideas   

"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language."

Whitehead, Alfred North on ideas   

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."

Whitehead, Alfred North on art   

"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order."

Whitehead, Alfred North on progress
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"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it."

Whitehead, Alfred North on quotations   

"Seek simplicity but distrust it."

Whitehead, Alfred North on simplicity   

"Speech is human nature itself, with none of the artificiality of written language."

Whitehead, Alfred North on speech   

"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking."

Whitehead, Alfred North on thoughts and thinking   

"We think in generalities, but we live in detail."

Whitehead, Alfred North on thoughts and thinking   

"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy."

Whitehead, Alfred North on youth
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"Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them."

Whitehead, Alfred North on action   

"Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious."

Whitehead, Alfred North on common sense   

"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason."

Whitehead, Alfred North on courage   

"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on blame
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"Hope on, and save yourself for prosperous times."

Virgil on hope
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"Friendship is to have the latchkey of another's mind."

Godospeed, Edgar on friends and friendship
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"Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it."

Gandhi, Mahatma on action
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"They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles."

Franklin, Benjamin on advice
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"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."

Gandhi, Mahatma on law and lawyers
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"I did not attend his funeral; but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved of it. [About a politician who had recently died]"

Twain, Mark on funerals
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"Man is by nature a political animal."

Aristotle on humankind
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"As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for."

Billings, Josh on success   

"There has never been a statue erected to the memory of someone who let well enough alone."

Ellinger, Jules on fame   

"People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure."

Lao-Tzu on failure
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"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence."

Lao-Tzu on giving
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"Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, We have done it ourselves."

Lao-Tzu on government   

"Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness."

Lao-Tzu on happiness
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"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."

Lao-Tzu on kindness
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"To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty."

Lao-Tzu on knowledge
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"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves."

Lao-Tzu on leadership
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"When the best leader's work is done the people say, We did it ourselves."

Lao-Tzu on leadership