"When you are right no one remembers; when you are wrong no one forgets."

Proverb, Irish on memory
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"The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it."

Anouilh, Jean on morality   

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

Harris, Sidney J. on regret
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"Truth uttered before its time is dangerous."

Mencius (Mengzi Meng-tse) on truth   

"The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital."

Paterno, Joe on preparation
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"Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?"

Keats, John on fame
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"You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure."

Ziglar, Zig on attitude
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"A light heart lives long."

Proverb on life
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"The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on modesty
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"Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on art   

"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

Shaw, George Bernard on voting
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"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak."

Strindberg, J. August on happiness   

"In a false quarrel there is no true valor."

Shakespeare, William on argument   

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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on change
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"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."

Gandhi, Mahatma on prayer
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"The man who has accomplished all that he thinks worthwhile has begun to die."

Trigg, E. T. on deeds and good deeds   

"If we cannot do what we will, we must will what we can."

Proverb, Yiddish on power
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"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."

Wilde, Oscar on senses
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"An old man loved is winter with flowers."

Proverb, German on age and aging   

"We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on brotherhood
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"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

Hoffer, Eric on change
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"Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse."

Carswell, James on nature
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"Nothing lowers the level on conversation more than raising the voice."

Horowitz, Stanley on conversation
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"Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea."

Half, Robert on acting and actors
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"There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class."

Woolf, Leonard Sidney on class
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"If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation."

Kerr, Jean on adversity
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"What we share with another ceases to be our own."

Quinet, Edgar on gifts
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"The friendship that can cease has never been real."

Jerome, St. on friends and friendship
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"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on friends and friendship
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"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil."

Gracian, Baltasar on friends and friendship
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"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

Gentry, David Tyson on friends and friendship
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"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."

Brookner, Anita on friends and friendship
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"Love demands infinitely less than friendship."

Nathan, George Jean on friends and friendship
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"Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound."

Proverb on friends and friendship
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"Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures."

Seneca on friends and friendship
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"Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength."

Joubert, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures."

Unknown, Source on friends and friendship
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"Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship."

Lucan, F. L. on losers and losing   

"Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly, Why should it be either? Truth is Truth."

Middleton, Owen C. on truth