"The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception."

Carlyle, Thomas on laughter
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"Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness."

Rostand, Jean on greatness   

"To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on illness   

"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on adversity
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"Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.."

Picabia, Francis on god   

"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. "

Plato on uncategorised
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"Attitudes are the forerunners of conditions."

Butterworth, Eric on attitude
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"A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on action   

"A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."

Updike, John on bores and boredom
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"What you think of me is none of my business."

Cole-Whittaker, Terry on opinions
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"Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new."

Temple, Sir William on books - reading
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"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

Einstein, Albert on the future
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"Character matters; leadership descends from character."

Limbaugh, Rush on character
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"Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires."

Manton on desire   

"The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised
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"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead."

Camus, Albert on happiness
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"If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"What men value in this world is not rights but privileges."

Mencken, H. L. on privilege
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"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments."

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow on focus
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"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Swift, Jonathan on genius
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"Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them."

Chesterfield, Lord on conversation
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"It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy -- but he who has shown the better temper."

Butler, Samuel on debate
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"You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life."

Williams, A.L. on failure
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"Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul."

Takami, Koushun on love
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"How can I explain with the exact words the pain you do in me every time you say her name and worst is that she is my best friend"

De La Garza, Fer on love
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"A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on civilization
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"When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty."

Gregory The Great, St. on blush
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"Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for kindness"

Seneca on kindness
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"Conceit is God's gift to little men."

Truman, Harry S on conceit
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"Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ."

Luther, Martin on faith
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"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy."

Thatcher, Margaret on america
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"Go away, I'm all right!"

Wells, H.G. on solitude   

"An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected."

Herbert, A. P. on miracles
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"Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless."

Nisker, Wes ''Scoop'' on poetry and poets
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"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."

Buren, Abigail Van on fights and fighting
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"Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things."

Milne, A. A. on action   

"Fame is an illusive thing -- here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months."

Miller, Henry on fame   

"He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment."

Lao-Tzu on knowledge
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"Happiness is a sort of action."

Aristotle on happiness
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"In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."

Jung, Carl on chaos
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