"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but to hold hands."

Penney, Alexandria on relationship
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"A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent."

Angelou, Maya on love
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"The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."

Crisp, Quentin on relationship
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"Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."

Bentley, Timothy on attitude
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"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."

Waitley, Denis on courage
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"If your self-worth is based on anything other than your relationship with Christ, you are in big trouble."

Smith, Hyrum on self-worth
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"A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship -- a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou."

Storr, Anthony on marriage
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"When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on death
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"The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time."

Lincoln, Abraham on the future
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"I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better."

Lincoln, Abraham on friends and friendship
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"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

Lincoln, Abraham on fools and foolishness
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"When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."

Lincoln, Abraham on enthusiasm
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"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

Lincoln, Abraham on dogs
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"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."

Lincoln, Abraham on determination
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"When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things -- not the great occasions -- that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness."

Hope, Bob on happiness
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"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels he is worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."

Lincoln, Abraham on god
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"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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"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die."

Lincoln, Abraham on laughter
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"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."

Lincoln, Abraham on justice
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"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."

Lincoln, Abraham on humor
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"I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace."

Lincoln, Abraham on horses
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"Whatever you are, be a good one."

Lincoln, Abraham on greatness
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"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."

Bruyere, Jean De La on books - reading   

"Study men, not historians."

Truman, Harry S on history and historians   

"Never forget the importance of history. To know nothing of what happened before you took your place on earth, is to remain a child for ever and ever."

Unknown, Source on history and historians
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"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."

Washington, George on history and historians
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"Human history in essence is the history of ideas."

Wells, H.G. on history and historians   

"Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are not asleep; if you seek them, they do not hide; if you blunder, they do not scold; if you are ignorant, they do not laugh at you."

Bury, Richard De on books - reading
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"What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books."

Carlyle, Thomas on books - reading
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"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours."

Channing, William Ellery on books - reading
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"Read, read, read. Read everything-- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window."

Faulkner, William on books - reading
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"He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust."

Dickinson, Emily on books - reading
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"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with all the finest men of past centuries."

Descartes, Rene on books - reading
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"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy."

Colton, Charles Caleb on books - reading
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"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books."

Colton, Charles Caleb on books - reading
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"Memoirs are the backstairs of history."

Meredith, George on biography   

"The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip."

Edel, Leon on biography
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"More powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin."

Unknown, Source on beginning
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"A hard beginning maketh a good ending."

Heywood, John on beginning
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"The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on beginning