"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence."

Poe, Edgar Allan on self-confidence
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"We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly."

Twain, Mark on family
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"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals."

Trevelyan, G. M. on books - reading
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"People need loving the most when they deserve it the least."

Harrigan, John on love
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"Repeticio est mater studiorum. Repetition is the mother of all learning."

Acquinas, Saint Thomas on education
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"Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use."

Castaneda, Carlos on art
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"Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality."

Brown, Les on opinions
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"Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything."

Johnson, Samuel on identity
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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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"Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune."

Rohn, Jim on education
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"It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on planning
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"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much."

Mother Teresa on god
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"It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not."

Bana, Mervyn Parangan on trouble   

"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."

Brandeis, Louis D. on argument
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"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate."

Joubert, Joseph on argument
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"Beware of the person of one book."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on books - reading
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"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently."

Buffett, Warren on reputation
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"It was once said that love is giving someone the ability to destroy you, but trusting them not to."

Unknown, Source on love
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"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

Dickens, Charles on love
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"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

Twain, Mark on cheerfulness
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"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

Frost, Robert on love
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"He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment."

Lao-Tzu on knowledge
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"No one does anything from a single motive."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on motivation
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"How can you be in hell when you are in my heart?"

Unknown, Source on (kingdom of heaven)   

"Will it, and set to work briskly."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on power   

"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."

Owens, Jesse on determination
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"Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed."

Carnegie, Dale on courage
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"Imagination decides everything."

Pascal, Blaise on imagination   

"Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on fate
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"How soon not now, becomes never."

Luther, Martin on procrastination
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"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

Curie, Madame Marie on life
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"The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it."

Mencken, H. L. on pleasure   

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"“I am not concerned that you have fallen, I am concerned that you arise.”"

Lincoln, Abraham on worry
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"You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time."

Kettering, Charles F. on peace
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"You are only what you are when no one is looking."

Edwards, Robert C. on appearance
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"Fear is met and destroyed with courage"

James F. Bell on courage   

"What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others."

Confucius on example
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"The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it."

Garafola, Frank M. on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Be careful with hatred. . . . Hatred is a passion requiring one hundred times the energy of love. Keep it for a cause, not an individual. Keep it for intolerance, injustice, stupidity. For hatred is the strength of the sensitive. Its power and its greatness depend on the selflessness of its use. "

Moore, Olive on hatred
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"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."

Foster, Jodie on normality
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