"Everybody forgets the basic thing; people are not going to love you unless you love them."

Carroll, Pat on love
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"You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else."

Cayce, Edgar on honesty
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"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

Lincoln, Abraham on deceit
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"A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart."

Greville, Lord on generosity
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Einstein, Albert on stupidity
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"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor."

Einstein, Albert on truth
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"Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value."

Einstein, Albert on value
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"Happiness is not a reward -- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment -- it is a result."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on happiness
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"The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on courage
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"I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on bigotry   

"It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."

Belson, Rami on speech
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"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."

Depree, Max on responsibility
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"Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice."

Goethals, George W. on faith   

"The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on morality
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"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."

Confucius on action
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"How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child!"

Goodrich, Samuel G. on parents and parenting   

"Every calling is great when greatly pursued."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on work
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"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on memory   

"I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep."

Talleyrand, Charles Maurice De on leadership   

"No one is as angry as the person who is wrong."

Proverb on anger
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"Common sense is not so common."

Voltaire on common sense
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"The only way to compel men to speak good of us is to do it."

Voltaire on character
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"I know of no great man except those who have rendered great services to the human race."

Voltaire on service
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"Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures."

Voltaire on pleasure
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"When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."

Voltaire on money
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"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."

Voltaire on medicine
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"Do well and you will have no need for ancestors."

Voltaire on ancestry
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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Voltaire on freedom
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"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing."

Voltaire on doctors
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"Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being."

Weil, Simone on intelligence and intellectuals   

"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!"

DeVos, Richard M. on perseverance
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"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."

DeVos, Richard M. on courage
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"Skill in the art of communication is crucial to a leader's success. He can accomplish nothing unless he can communicate effectively."

Allen, Norman on leadership
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"The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;"

Proverb, Chinese on doctors
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"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"If you want happiness for an hour -- take a nap. If you want happiness for a day -- go fishing. If you want happiness for a month -- get married. If you want happiness for a year -- inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime -- help someone else."

Proverb, Chinese on happiness
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"The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure."

Proverb, Chinese on failure
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"Everyone pushes a falling fence."

Proverb, Chinese on failure
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"Man is the head of the family, woman the neck that turns the head."

Proverb, Chinese on family
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