"The foolish think that nothing is well done, except that which they do themselves."

Unknown, Source on organization
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"Success and money have nothing in common."

Unknown, Source on success   

"We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on sorrow
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"Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps."

Blake, William on sorrow
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"Sorrow is better than laughter, for by the sadness of the face the heart is made better."

Bible on sorrow
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"We're not in Wonderland anymore Alice."

Manson, Charles on madness
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"Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane."

Miller, Henry on madness
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"What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"

Orwell, George on madness
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"Madness is something rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on madness
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"If the dead talk to you, you are a spiritualist; if God talks to you, you are a schizophrenic."

Szasz, Thomas on madness
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"O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad."

Shakespeare, William on madness
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"We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!"

Shaw, George Bernard on madness
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"Lord, let me live until I die."

Rogers, Will on famous last words
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"God prepares great men for great tasks by great trials."

Gressett, J. K. on trials
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"The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it."

Foley, Will on trials
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"The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in."

Howe, Edgar Watson on trials
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"The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts."

Wilde, Oscar on tyranny
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"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hell
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"Today, you have 100% of your life left."

Hopkins, Tom on life
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"When it gets dark enough you can see the stars."

Salk, Lee on adversity
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"Criticism should be a casual conversation."

Auden, W. H. on criticism   

"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."

Addison, Joseph on criticism
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"Blame is safer than praise."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on criticism
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"Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!"

Flagg, Fannie on criticism
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"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted."

Aeschylus on advice
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"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first."

Leach, Reggie on enthusiasm
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on change
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"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Downs, Hugh on happiness
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"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

Marx, Groucho on dogs
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"One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time."

Kennedy, Robert F. on opposition
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"No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm."

Ginsberg, Allen on drugs
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"You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed."

Bruyere, Jean De La on dogs   

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

Lincoln, Abraham on dogs
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"If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail."

Lebowitz, Fran on dogs   

"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."

Nash, Ogden on dogs
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"Near this spot are deposited the remains of one who possessed Beauty without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferocity, and all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery, if inscribed over human ashes, is but a just Tribute to the Memory of BOATSWAIN, a Dog."

Hobhouse, John Cam on dogs   

"In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog."

Hoagland, Edward on dogs
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"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."

Butler, Samuel on dogs
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"The more I see of men, the more I like dogs."

Bow, Clara on dogs
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"If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal."

Bagnold, Enid on dogs