"How can you govern a country with two hundred and forty six varieties of cheese?"

Gaulle, Charles De on nations
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"The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising."

Bloch, Arthur on compromise
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"Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring."

Harris, Sidney J. on teacher
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"I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up."

Hershfield, Harry on age and aging
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"We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."

Smiles, Samuel on mistakes
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"Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat."

Bevin, Ernest on ignorance
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"Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal."

Einstein, Albert on technology
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"The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on preachers and preaching   

"If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times."

Augustine, St. on longevity
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Mead, Margaret on work
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"If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work."

Watson, Thomas J. on excellence
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"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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"When you are down and out something always turns up -- and it is usually the noses of your friends."

Welles, Orson on difficulties   

"My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works."

Woods, Tiger on service   

"Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance."

Kennedy, John F. on economy and economics   

"Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory."

Conrad, Joseph on memory   

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"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on politics   

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"The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons."

Aristotle on virtue
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"The truth shall set you free."

Bible on truth
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"Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on hatred
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"Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on endurance
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"The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on senses   

"Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies."

Chesterfield, Lord on forgiveness
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"Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer."

Carlyle, Thomas on duty
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"What we gave, we have; What we spent, we had; What we left, we lost."

Edwards, Tryon on giving
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"He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on abundance
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"The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on adversity
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"We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on age and aging
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"The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on age and aging   

"The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on decisions
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"Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on deeds and good deeds
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"It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on direction
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"Doubt can only be removed by action."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on doubt
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"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on doubt
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"We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on doubt
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"How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on duty
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"They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on education
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"He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on egotism
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"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on emotions
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"Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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