"The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly."

Huxley, Aldous on art
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"Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters."

Emmons, Nathaniel on habit
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"The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."

Bronowski, Jacob on mind
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"Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

Brown, Les on possibilities
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"Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations."

Nightingale, Earl on environment   

"People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame -- and only one -- themselves."

Collier, Robert on environment
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"The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself."

Caine, Mark on environment   

"It's important for the explorer to be willing to be led astray."

Oech, Roger Von on leadership   

"I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up."

Bishop, Russell on parents and parenting
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"The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one."

Dryden, John on parents and parenting
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"If your children look up to you, you've made a success of life's biggest job."

Unknown, Source on parents and parenting   

"I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."

Wagner, Jane on complaints and complaining
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"A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept."

Jerome, St. on friends and friendship   

"Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated."

Ballou, Hosea on hatred
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"Life is the dynamic, creative edge of reality."

Parslow, Eric on death
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"Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."

Buddha on hatred
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"Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled only by non-hatred -- this is the law of eternal."

Buddha on hatred
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"The only way to overcome is to hang in."

O'Brien, Dan on perseverance   

"Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on intelligence and intellectuals
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"The ancestor of every action is thought."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"A land without ruins is a land without memories -- a land without memories is a land without history."

Ryan, Abram Joseph on history and historians
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"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might of been."

Hazlitt, William on laughter
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!"

Williams, Tennessee on hypocrisy
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"The key to your universe is that you can choose."

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl) on choice
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history."

Fadiman, Clifton on wine
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"Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies."

Kipling, Rudyard on work   

"How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied."

Herodotus on envy
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"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."

Twain, Mark on anger
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"What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire."

Proverb on eyes
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"The best work never was and never will be done for money."

Ruskin, John on work
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"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."

Colton, Charles Caleb on adversity
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"The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail."

Land, Edwin H. on creativity
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"When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her."

Wilde, Oscar on love
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"A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on wisdom   

"Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it."

Hubbard, Elbert on freedom
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