"Most people would rather give than get affection."

Aristotle on affection
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"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well."

Aristotle on education
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"Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons."

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

Aristotle on equality
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"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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"To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward."

Barber, Margaret Fairless on nostalgia
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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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"You are the only one thinking in your mind.."

Blum, Donald on adonybus
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"The future comes one day at a time."

Acheson, Dean on the future
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"Time stays, we go."

Mencken, H. L. on time   

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"Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn."

Schwartz, Delmore on time
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"Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."

Hill, Napoleon on action
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"The time is always right to do what is right."

King Jr. Martin Luther on virtue
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"Anyone can become angry -- that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way -- this is not easy."

Aristotle on anger
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"Whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame."

Franklin, Benjamin on anger
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"Anger is short madness"

Horace on anger
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"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you."

Horace on anger
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"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."

Seneca on anger   

"The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable."

Seneca on anxiety
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"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."

Beaumont, Francis on death
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"There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence."

Becht, Ben on death   

"Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;"

Beecher, Henry Ward on death
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"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours."

Berra, Yogi on death
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"Death is nature's way of saying, Your table's ready."

Williams, Robin on death
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"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding."

Williams, H. H. on understanding   

"Understanding is a two-way street."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on understanding   

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."

Washington, George on friends and friendship
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"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

Thoreau, Henry David on friends and friendship
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"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over."

Boswell, James on friends and friendship
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"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks."

Jerome, St. on friends and friendship
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"The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words."

Buddha on friends and friendship
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"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

Churchill, Winston on simplicity
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"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."

Pascal, Blaise on thoughts and thinking   

"There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time."

Chanel, Coco on time
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"There are people who have money and people who are rich."

Chanel, Coco on money
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"Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve."

Brown, Les on belief
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"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Churchill, Winston on greatness
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"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak."

Hofmann, Hans on simplicity   

"Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on greatness   

"What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also."

Caesar, Julius on belief
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