"It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor."

Hoffer, Eric on neighbors
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"Greatest fools are the most often satisfied."

Boileau, Nicholas on fools and foolishness
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"It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable."

Moliere on responsibility
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"Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough."

Horton, Doug on thoughts and thinking
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"One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person."

Feather, William on happiness
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"We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on relationship
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"You can't know too much, but you can say too much."

Coolidge, Calvin on knowledge
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"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves."

Hoffer, Eric on lies and lying
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"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work."

Edison, Thomas A. on results
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"The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present."

Miller, Harlan on worry   

"We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act and, in acting, to live."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on decisions
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"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on merit
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"To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations."

Penn, William on virtue   

"Science is organized knowledge."

Spencer, Herbert on science
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"The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill."

Einstein, Albert on problems
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"There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."

Franklin, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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"Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on fashion
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"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."

Einstein, Albert on science
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"I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it."

Jackson, Reggie on success
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"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on education
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"Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden."

Phaedrus on appearance
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"There's a basic human weakness inherent in all people which tempts them to want what they can't have and not want what is readily available to them."

Ringer, Robert J. on appreciation
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"To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on."

Shakespeare, William on misfortunes
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see."

Peguy, Charles on perception
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"Every time I look into the eyes of an animal I see life; the force of life and the beauty of creation"

O'Reilly, Radar on life
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"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them."

Einstein, Albert on problems
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"You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing."

Ashe, Arthur on winners and winning
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"A minor operation is one that is done on someone else"

Selzer, Dr. Richard on operation   

"I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously."

Hershey, Barbara on seriousness   

"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."

Gesser on adversity
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"Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them-and then you destroy yourself."

Nixon, Richard M. on hatred
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"The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try."

Drucker, Peter F. on mistakes
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"There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, Thy will be done, and those to whom God says, All right, then, have it your way."

Lewis, C. S. on dedication
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

Lewis, C. S. on friends and friendship
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"Anything that changes your values changes your behavior."

Sheehan, George on value
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"Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism."

King, Florence on democracy   

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing."

Braun, Wernher Von on research
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"The idol is the measure of the worshipper."

Lowell, James Russell on idols
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"Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable."

Joubert, Joseph on ambition