"The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone."

Ibsen, Henrik on self-reliance
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"Your pay raise becomes effective when you do."

Woodward, Orrin on   

"Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then."

Johnson, Samuel on adversity
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"Any landing you can walk away from is a good one."

Proverb on airplane and aviation
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"If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done."

Peale, Norman Vincent on procrastination
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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."

Buddha on value
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"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds."

Peale, Norman Vincent on problems
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"Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes."

Agar, Herbert on promises
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"Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday."

Hill, Napoleon on procrastination
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"Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much."

Peale, Norman Vincent on speakers and speaking   

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."

Peale, Norman Vincent on achievement
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"Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity."

Proverb, Arabian on opportunity
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"Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent."

Forbes, B. C. on patience
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"Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on leadership
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"As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead."

Bloom, Allan on tradition
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"A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned."

Proverb, Arabian on ignorance
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"He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything."

Proverb, Arabian on hope
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"Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on hope
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"I'm a romantic -- a sentimental person thinks things will last -- a romantic person hopes against hope that they won t."

Unknown, Source on romance and romanticism
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"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."

Burroughs, John on age and aging
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"A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature."

Kempton, Murray on politics
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"The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours."

Wordsworth, William on world
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"There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech."

Bloom, Allan on teacher
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"The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself."

Bloom, Allan on colleges and universities
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"Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter."

Forbes, B. C. on opportunity
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"A smile on the face is a sign that the heart is at home."

Unknown, Source on smile
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"A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams."

Unknown, Source on dream
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"Home is any four walls that enclose the right person."

Rowland, Helen on home
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"What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you."

Forbes, B. C. on courage   

"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine."

Bloom, Allan on parents and parenting
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"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice."

Bloom, Allan on reason
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"Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on knowledge
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"The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on invention and inventor
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"A man without a vote is man without protection."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on government
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"As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?"

Johnson, Lyndon B. on neighbors   

"The noblest search is the search for excellence."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on excellence
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"We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part."

Bloom, Allan on culture   

"As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name."

Devi, Sri Sarada on pleasure   

"The world is in your hands, now use it."

Collins, Phil on world
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

Wilde, Oscar on dress
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