"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"You are the only person on earth who can use your ability."

Ziglar, Zig on ability
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"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

Wooden, John on ability
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"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

Half, Robert on ability
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"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"

Ford, Henry on ability
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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

Lincoln, Abraham on fools and foolishness
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"The way to be nothing is to do nothing."

Howe, Nathaniel on idleness
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"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it."

Meltzer, Bernard on kisses and kissing
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"We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on happiness
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"We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier."

Landor, Walter Savage on happiness
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"Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort."

Shaw, George Bernard on art   

"Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down."

Proverb, Chinese on simplicity
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

Hubbard, Elbert on achievement
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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together."

Gogh, Vincent Van on achievement
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"Power is nothing if you don't have someone to share it with."

Berazaluce, Manuel on
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"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."

Braude, Jacob M. on change
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"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."

Burns, George on passion
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"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on deception
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"Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend."

Camus, Albert on friends and friendship
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"Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood."

Edwards, Tryon on accuracy
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"Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them."

Edwards, Tryon on accuracy
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"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on accuracy   

"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."

Simmons, Charles on accuracy
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"Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on accuracy
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"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."

Unknown, Source on accuracy
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"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils."

Bacon, Francis on adaptability
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"I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt."

Bowman, Scotty on adaptability
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"One learns to itch where one can scratch."

Bramah, Ernest on adaptability
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"In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might."

Churchill, Winston on adaptability
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"Singularity shows something wrong in the mind."

Clarissa on adaptability
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"Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment."

Dewey, John on adaptability   

"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."

Gandhi, Mahatma on adaptability
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"We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided."

Hamilton, Alexander on adaptability
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"A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous."

Heard, Jane on adaptability
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"To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail."

Maslow, Abraham H. on adaptability
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"Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be."

Proverb, German on adaptability
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"It is a wise person that adapts themselves to all contingencies; it's the fool who always struggles like a swimmer against the current."

Unknown, Source on adaptability
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"In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark."

Baker, Nicholson on adulthood
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