"The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is."

Barrie, Sir James M. on books - reading
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"Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble."

Madden, John on self-praise
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"I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times."

Carter, Jimmy on lust   

"But I say to you, that every one who looks on a woman to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. [Matthew 5:28]"

Bible on lust
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"Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence."

Allen, James on beauty
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."

Disraeli, Benjamin on criticism
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"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning..."

Priestley, J. B. on the future
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"No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on insanity
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"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on peace
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"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call Failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."

Pickford, Mary on obstacles
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"A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on mind
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"Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages."

Allen, Hervey on civilization
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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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"I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone."

Byron, Lord on socializing and socialism   

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

Bard, Carl on beginning
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"Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on death
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"The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie."

Brodsky, Joseph on consciousness
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"Begin -- to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished."

Ausonius, Decimus Magnus on action
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"Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins."

Rohn, Jim on learning
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"A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward."

Antrim, Minna on virtue   

"People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves."

Brouhours on misfortunes
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"One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe."

Sand, George on death
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"Every beginning is a consequence. Every beginning ends something."

Unknown, Source on beginning
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"To begin, begin."

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio on action   

"The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety."

Mueller, George E. on faith
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"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

Lee, Harper on courage
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"Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives."

Hunt, Trinidad on change
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"Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer."

Jerome, Jerome K. on love
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"In a dark time, the eye begins to see."

Roethke, Theodore on adversity
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"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."

Hull, Raymond on approval
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"The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it."

Daney, Serge on interviews
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"One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her."

Rimbaud, Arthur on beauty   

"Formal symbolic representation of qualitative entities is doomed to its rightful place of minor significance in a world where flowers and beautiful women abound."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at."

Berger, John on women
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"Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly."

Plotinus on beauty   

"It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today -- to women."

James, Selma on women   

"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."

Immermann on beauty
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