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"People who have little to do are excessive talkers."

Proverb on behavior
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"Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on force
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"Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on beauty    Share

"When money speaks the truth is silent."

Proverb, Russian on money
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"You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die."

Lennon, John on peace
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"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing."

Astor, Lady Nancy on change
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"Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial."

Dane, Frank on time    Share

"We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go."

Rohn, Jim on risk
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"A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer."

Acheson, Dean on management
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"If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup."

Proverb, Turkish on truth
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"To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that."

Teresa of Avila, St. on courage
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"You do not notice changes in what is always before you."

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle on change
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"That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on democracy    Share

"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Downs, Hugh on happiness
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"The gods sell all things at a fair price."

Proverb on cost    Share

"Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume."

Proverb, French on beauty
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"Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."

King Jr. Martin Luther on humankind
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"I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible."

Russell, Bertrand on writers and writing
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"When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost."

Motto on losers and losing
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"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."

Kaiser, Henry J. on opportunity
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"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."

Brand, Stewart on technology
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"Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors."

Bernstein, Leonard on techniques    Share

"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first."

Leach, Reggie on enthusiasm
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"The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes."

Shakespeare, William on faces
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"What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God."

Buscaglia, Leo on gifts
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"Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth."

Proverb, French on glutton    Share

"It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on promotion    Share

"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness."

Cousins, Norman on loneliness
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"I am at two with nature."

Allen, Woody on nature
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"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others."

Cicero, Marcus T. on gratitude
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"The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed."

Kerr, Clark on status quo    Share

"Experience is a comb that life gives you after you lose your hair."

Stern, Judith on experience    Share

"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted."

Aeschylus on advice
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"Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer."

Colton, Charles Caleb on negotiation    Share

"The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply."

Waitley, Denis on effort
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"You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love."

Drummond, Henry on love
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"True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit."

Pope, Alexander on argument    Share

"Simplicity is the seal of truth."

Proverb on simplicity
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"Who is wise? One who learns from all."

Talmud, The on wisdom
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"Those who easily forgive invite offenses."

Corneille, Pierre on forgiveness
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