"Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes."

Colton, Charles Caleb on argument   

"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate."

Joubert, Joseph on argument
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"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."

Joubert, Joseph on argument
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"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."

Brandeis, Louis D. on argument
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"It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them."

Beaumarchais, Pierre De on argument   

"Who is mightier than death? Those who can smile when death threatens."

Ruckett on death
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"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box."

Proverb, Italian on death
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"If life must not be taken too seriously -- then so neither must death."

Butler, Samuel on death   

"He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on choice
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"One of the best things about being an adult is the realization that you can share with your sister and still have plenty for yourself."

Cohen, Betsy on sister
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"Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names."

Proverb on death
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"Death always comes too early or too late."

Proverb, English on death
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"There is a remedy for everything; it is called death."

Proverb, Portuguese on death
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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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"God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars."

Hubbard, Elbert on achievement
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"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement."

Mcclellan, Foster C. on achievement
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"All that we see or seem is nothing but a dream within a dream"

Edgar Alan Poe on life
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"Technology is no match for human error."

Torley on technology   

"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."

Thoreau, Henry David on dream
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"To spend life for something which outlasts it."

James, William on achievement
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"If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?"

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell on dream
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"When asked what he would do if he only had six months to live: Type faster."

Asimov, Isaac on dream
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"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Auerbach, Berthold on music
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"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on music
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"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it."

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic on fate
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"The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any."

Astaire, Fred on character
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"The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does."

Barres on politics
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"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."

Kettering, Charles F. on change
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"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."

Bergson, Henri L. on mind
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"The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes."

Courtney, Henry on mind   

"There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy."

Anouilh, Jean on love
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"We must love one another or die."

Auden, W. H. on love
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"Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love."

Aristotle on love
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"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."

Brand, Stewart on technology
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"A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses. [Proverbs 27:19]"

Bible on friends and friendship
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"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"You should look at the entire Bible as a whole rather then narrowly, if you can, under close scrutiny and with juxtaposition of passages "

Dye, James on