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"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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"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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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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"You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes."

Shaw, George Bernard on power
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"Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on mother-in-laws
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"My country wrong or right, is like saying my mother, drunk or sober."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on patriotism
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"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on peace
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"It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on law and lawyers    Share

"The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep."

Propertius, Sextus on adversity    Share

"You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker."

Malcolm X on greed
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"America is the country where you can buy a lifetime supply of aspirin For one dollar and use it up in two weeks."

Barrymore, John on america
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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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"Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance."

Colton, Charles Caleb on greed
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"The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn."

John Paul II on abortion
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"Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion."

Wilson, Sandy on love    Share

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"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."

Elliott, Walter on perseverance
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"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

Lincoln, Abraham on voting
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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."

South, Bishop Robert on failure
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"The next chapter of my life is always more interesting than the last one. "

Lipsey, Michael on life
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"Many struggle to maintain their identity lest they disapoint others"

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives."

Hay, Louise L. on love
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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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"The beginning of wisdom is to desire it."

Gabirol, Ibn on wisdom
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"There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud."

Shields, Carol on life    Share

"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost."

Foch, Ferdinand on failure
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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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"Events tend to recur in cycles..."

Stone, W. Clement on cycles    Share

"Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body."

Ovid on courage    Share

"The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together."

Saadi on contrast
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"Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win."

Kozol, Jonathan on battles
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"Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers."

Voltaire on questions
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"Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work."

Unknown, Source on work    Share

"I don't think anybody yet has invented a pastime that's as much fun, or keeps you as young, as a good job."

Ecker, Frederick Hudson on work
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"Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem."

Hoffer, Eric on self-esteem
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"God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed."

Bunuel, Luis on patriotism    Share

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

Shakespeare, William on war
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"Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all."

Breton, Andre on beauty
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