"Get the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything."

Dane, Frank on elections   

"To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."

Hubbard, Elbert on criticism
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"Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing."

Gladden, W. on words
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"My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"Who would not rather trust and be deceived?"

Cook, Eliza on trust
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"Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry."

Cromwell, Oliver on trust
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"Trust one who has tried."

Virgil on trust
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"Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on trust
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"I have seldom known a person, who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance."

Paley, Babe on trust
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"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity."

Kristol, Irving on democracy
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"If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get."

Clark, Frank A. on gratitude
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"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."

Franklin, Benjamin on stupidity
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"A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses."

Proverb on giving
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"I am truly horrified by modern man. Such absence of feeling, such narrowness of outlook, such lack of passion and information, such feebleness of thought."

Herzen, Alexander on modern and modernism   

"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail."

Wooden, John on planning
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"Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring."

Baxter, Richard on anger   

"We learn geology the morning after the earthquake."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on learning
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"Whatever happens, take responsibility."

Robbins, Anthony on responsibility
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"Men argue, nature acts."

Voltaire on argument
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"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."

Keller, Helen on things and little things
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"You can't choose up sides on a round world."

Dyer, Wayne on choice
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"Never tell your story to a deaf man."

Proverb on listening
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"When you call me that, smile!"

Wister, Owen on uncategorised   

"Heaven never helps the men who will not act."

Sophocles on action
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"It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away."

Dickens, Charles on cries and crying
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"Know what you want. Become your real self."

Fink, David Harold on desire
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"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."

Ashe, Arthur on giving
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"For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged."

Walker, Alice on freedom
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"It is the power of thought that gives man power over nature."

Anderson, Hans Christian on thoughts and thinking
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"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."

Greene, Graham on trust
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"The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."

Washington, George on freedom   

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

Washington, George on freedom
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"I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."

Washington, George on honesty
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"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."

Washington, George on profanity
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"Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience"

Washington, George on science   

"For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and, dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter. "

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"When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."

Hamilton, Edith on freedom
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"All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye."

Pope, Alexander on prejudice
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"Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."

London, Jack on circumstance
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