"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on gossip
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"A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool."

Roux, Joseph on quotations
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"People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall."

DiCaprio, Leonardo on criticism
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"The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it."

Moliere on fate
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"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."

Lao-Tzu on attachment
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"'Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on god
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"Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on socializing and socialism
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"True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god."

Twain, Mark on irreverence
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"He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor."

Menander of Athens on diligence
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"Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor."

Hare, David on virtue
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"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

Huxley, Aldous on education
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"In failing circumstances no one can be relied on to keep their integrity."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on integrity
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"The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life."

Maxim, Samurai on anger
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"Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised
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"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on dream
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"More and more Emerson recedes grandly into history, as the future he predicted becomes a past. "

Warren, Robert Penn on uncategorised   

"What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are."

Mckay, David O. on learning
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"We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on books - reading   

"Mr. Emerson visited Thoreau at the jail, and the meeting between the two philosophers must have been interesting and somewhat dramatic. The account of the meeting was told me by Miss Maria Thoreau [Henry Thoreaus aunt]Henry, why are you here? Waldo, why are you not here?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on uncategorised   

"The only thing bigger than God`s great universe is man`s ego."

Sevakis, Gary on love
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"For it is in giving that we receive."

Francis of Assisi, St. on giving
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"Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me."

Unknown, Source on giving
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"Durability is part of what makes a great athlete."

Russell, Bill on athlete   

"Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

Bacon, Francis on humor
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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 gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again."

Unknown, Source on sadness
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"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Picasso, Pablo on art
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"Now there is fame! Of all -- hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public -- fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true."

Picasso, Pablo on fame
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"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."

Horace on people
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"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."

Rohn, Jim on joy
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"We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death."

Proverb on death
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"The coward threatens when he is safe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on war
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"I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can -- yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!"

Gilbert, W. S. on philanthropists   

"The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own."

Gilbert, W. S. on action
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"Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!"

Swahili Warrior Song on adversity
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"What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on happiness
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"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."

King Jr. Martin Luther on action
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"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."

Aristotle on poverty and the poor
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"We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one."

Aristotle on soul   

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."

Aristotle on equality
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