"Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share."

Greene, Graham on time   

"Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it."

Ruskin, John on status   

"Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on status
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"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."

Kafka, Franz on suffering
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"Our true nationality is mankind."

Wells, H.G. on racism
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"A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."

Crane, Frank on friends and friendship
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"If you've never failed you've never tried."

Unknown, Source on failure
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"Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun."

Amis, Martin on peace
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"Woman absent is woman dead."

Bierce, Ambrose on absence
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"Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others."

Bierce, Ambrose on happiness
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."

Aurelius, Marcus on endurance
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"The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does."

Hill, Napoleon on extra mile
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"I tell you one thing -- if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own."

Devi, Sri Sarada on world
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"I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own."

Dylan, Bob on world
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"The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive."

Fields, W. C. on world
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"The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are."

Fulghum, Robert on world
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"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid on hope
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"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."

Disney, Walt on entertainment
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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

Johnson, Samuel on hope
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"Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope."

Levi, Peter on action
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"Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that."

Hazlitt, William on hope
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"You can have it all. You just can't have it all at one time."

Winfrey, Oprah on possibilities
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?"

Ehrenreich, Barbara on world
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"History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats."

Forbes, B. C. on perseverance
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"Receiving a new truth is like adding a new sense."

Liebig on truth
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"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Einstein, Albert on apathy
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"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

Einstein, Albert on the future
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"When the solution is simple, God is answering."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind."

Einstein, Albert on humankind
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"Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."

Einstein, Albert on nature
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

Einstein, Albert on simplicity
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"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."

Einstein, Albert on master
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"It is theory that decides what can be observed."

Einstein, Albert on theory
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"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury."

La Fontaine, Jean De on patience
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"We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune."

La Fontaine, Jean De on achievement
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"What you allow, is what you teach...."

maven101 on behavior
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"Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish"

La Fontaine, Jean De on soul
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