"The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!"

Simpson, Homer on vision
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"Never write a letter if you can help it, and never destroy one!"

Macdonald, Sir John A. on letters   

"The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick."

Paine, Thomas on glory   

"Faith lives in honest doubt."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on faith
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"Always expect the worst, and you will never be disappointed."

Wastholm, Peter on expectation
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"I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow."

Blake, William on resentment
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"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

Channing, William Ellery on difficulties
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"Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers."

Maugham, W. Somerset on perfection
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"The cocks may crow, but it's the hen that lays the egg."

Thatcher, Margaret on women
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"Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on pride   

"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

Lee, Harper on science
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"Plans are nothing; planning is everything."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on planning
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"Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on youth   

"Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."

Diderot, Denis on poetry and poets
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"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."

Jung, Carl on passion
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"Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know."

Roux, Joseph on science
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"Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on art
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"Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries. Only in proportion as we are desirous of living more do we really live."

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y on life   

"All that I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on faith
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"I am better than my reputation."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on reputation
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"The impossible is often the untried."

Goodwin, Jim on impossibility
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on fear
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"There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. "

Warner, Charles Dudley on uncategorised   

"The good of the people is the greatest law."

Cicero, Marcus T. on law and lawyers
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"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

Thoreau, Henry David on wealth
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"Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears."

Sarnoff, Robert W. on finance   

"We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on finance
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"I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me."

Coward, Noel on memory
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"Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark."

Henry, O. on famous last words
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"A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided."

Robbins, Anthony on action
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"It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late."

Kennedy, Marilyn Moats on risk
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"Of course, it is the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."

Thatcher, Margaret on truth
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"We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

Unknown, Source on age and aging
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"Man partly is and wholly hopes to be."

Browning, Robert on hope
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"Swallow your pride occasionally, it's not fattening."

Tyger, Frank on pride   

"There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on imagination   

"Time stays long enough for those who use it."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on time
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"The man who can make hard things easy is the educator."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on teacher
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Nin, Anais on courage
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