"The best things in life aren't things."

Buchwald, Art on possessions
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"If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it."

Buchwald, Art on protest
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"Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself."

Cortazar, Julio on selfishness
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"To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve."

Allen, James on desire
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"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in adversity."

Plutarch on prosperity   

"I am thought. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel."

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio on visualization   

"Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace."

Milton, John on agreement   

"Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on power
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"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."

Waitley, Denis on courage
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"Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own."

Thompson, Francis on pain
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"A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget."

Butler, Samuel on friends and friendship   

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"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on words   

"If we do not change our direction, we are likely to end up where we are headed."

Proverb, Chinese on direction
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"Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult."

Hippocrates on doctors
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"Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder."

Washington, George on virtue
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"Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one."

Proverb, Turkish on wisdom
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"Reading the epitaphs, our only salvation lies in resurrecting the dead and burying the living."

Eldridge, Paul on epitaphs   

"If a man can see both sides of a problem, you know that none of his money is tied up in it."

Ross, Verda on problems   

"Here lies an Atheist: All Dressed Up and No Place to Go."

Epitaph on atheism
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"The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government."

Houston, Sam on education
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"The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well."

Leslie, H. T. on life
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on giving
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"Marry for money, my little sonny, a rich man's joke is always funny."

Proverb, Hebrew on money   

"Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law."

Goldsmith, Oliver on law and lawyers
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"An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog."

Schlegel, Friedrich on aphorisms and epigrams   

"I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain."

Cary, Joyce on death
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"What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God."

Buscaglia, Leo on gifts
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"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise."

Brooks, Phillips on life
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"This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit."

Shakespeare, William on lust
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"It contains a misleading impression, not a lie. It was being economical with the truth."

Armstrong, Robert on lies and lying   

"You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal."

Munro, Barry on purpose
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"Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight."

Diller, Phyllis on marriage
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"To call a man an animal is to flatter him; he's a machine, a walking dildo."

Solanis, Valerie on men   

"He has committed the crime who profits by it."

Seneca on crime and criminals
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"A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on government
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"There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening."

Proverb, American on people
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"A dissenting minority feels free only when it can impose its will on the majority: what it abominates most is the dissent of the majority."

Hoffer, Eric on minorities
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"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

Hubbard, Elbert on stupidity
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"Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid."

Hubbard, Kin on conservatives   

"For God's sake, if you sin, take pleasure in it, and do it for the pleasure..."

Gould, Gerald on sin