"The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started."

Holland, Josiah Gilbert on life
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"The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins."

Broun, Heywood on life
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"Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined."

Billings, Josh on life
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"The best kind of friend is the one you could sit on a porch with, never saying a word, and walk away feeling like that was the best conversation you've had. "

Unknown on friendship
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"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery."

Dante Alighieri on memory
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"I never forgive, but I always forget."

Balfour, Arthur James on forgiveness
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"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

Churchill, Winston on vision
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"Death always comes too early or too late."

Proverb, English on death
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"Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong."

Mansfield, Lord on decisions
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note."

Floyd, Doug on harmony
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"I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere."

Congreve, William on secrets
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"If you can't beat them or join them then work around them"

Refilwe Kekana on my own
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"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."

Thoreau, Henry David on education
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"Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself."

Plato on thoughts and thinking
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"When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket."

Snow, Dan on teacher
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"If one advances confidently in the directions of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit, with new values. Our world may have begun that way, but today it is caricature. Our world is a world of things. What we dread most, in the face of the impending debacle, is that we shall be obliged to give up our gewgaws, our gadgets, all the little comforts that have made us so uncomfortable. We are not peaceful souls; we are smug, timid, queasy and quaky."

Miller, Henry on world
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"There couldn't be a society of people who didn't dream. They'd be dead in two weeks."

Burroughs, William S. on dream
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"It's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them."

Eliot, T. S. on rebellion
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"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth."

Barney, Natalie Clifford on youth
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"Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did."

Benchley, Robert on youth
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"As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind."

Cicero, Marcus T. on youth   

"If you wish to be loved; Love!"

Seneca on love
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"How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant."

Abbott, John on knowledge
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"I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."

Adams, Franklin P. on knowledge
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"Knowledge is power."

Bacon, Francis on knowledge
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable."

Drucker, Peter F. on action
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"We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on peace
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"I am not young enough to know everything."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly."

Heinlein, Robert on humankind
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"There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?"

Byron, Lord on passion
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"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit."

Shay, R. E. on luck
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"Luck is the idol of the idle."

Proverb on luck
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"I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself -- it's eerie."

Turlington, Christy on curiosity   

"I made a wrong mistake"

Berra, Yogi on mistakes
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"Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still."

Proverb, Chinese on progress
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