"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."

Mailer, Norman on democracy
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"The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul."

Mailer, Norman on desire
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"Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation."

Mailer, Norman on heroes and heroism   

"Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor."

Mailer, Norman on men   

"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."

Mailer, Norman on art
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"Why is it that we rejoice at birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."

Twain, Mark on death
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"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on desire
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."

Confucius on self-talk
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"They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom."

Confucius on change
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"To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage. "

Confucius on uncategorised
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"It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness."

Confucius on complaints and complaining
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"The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."

Confucius on right and rightness
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"The real conversation is spoken in silence, when most converse it is either a negative one towards others or events, if you have nothing positive to say why spread negativity"

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"There's a fine line between participation and mockery."

Adams, Scott on criticism   

"Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age."

Hugo, Victor on age and aging
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"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

Gandhi, Mahatma on service
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"If you don't ask, you don't get."

Gandhi, Mahatma on ask
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"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

Gandhi, Mahatma on poverty and the poor
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"I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on power
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"Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having."

Gandhi, Mahatma on right and rightness
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"A writer is nothing without a reader; a reader is nothing without a writer."

Liccione, Anthony on writers and writing   

"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on money
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"Mastery passes often for egotism."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on egotism
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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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"So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on understanding
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"They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on education
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"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on thoughts and thinking
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"We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself."

Brecht, Bertolt on theater   

"Feelings are much slower learners than thought."

Dowrick, Stephanie on feelings
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"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

Confucius on respectability
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"Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle."

Masai, J. on feelings
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"You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones."

Anderson, Greg on emotions
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"Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?"

Diogenes of Sinope on philosophers and philosophy   

"Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves."

Nehru, Jawaharlal on time
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"Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds; all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have."

Hale, Edward Everett on adversity
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"When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better."

Forbes, Malcolm S. on adversity
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"It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say."

Nehru, Jawaharlal on advice
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"Great causes and little men go ill together."

Nehru, Jawaharlal on causes   

"There are two kinds of people: Those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group because there is less competition there."

Gandhi, Indira on competition
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