"The key to any good relationship, on-screen and off, is communication, respect, and I guess you have to like the way the other person smells -- and he smelled real nice."

Bullock, Sandra on relationship
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"The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one."

Baez, Joan on relationship
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"The one who loves least controls the relationship."

Unknown, Source on love
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"Leadership is a serving relationship that has the effect of facilitating human development."

Ward, Ted on leadership
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"The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity."

Tracy, Brian on integrity
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"In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it."

Lao-Tzu on water
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"Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."

Butterworth, Eric on desire
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"Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes."

Grizzard, Lewis on leadership
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"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

Twain, Mark on dress
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"To stop smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know; I've done it a thousand times."

Twain, Mark on habit
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"The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven."

Twain, Mark on humor
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"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us."

Nightingale, Earl on attitude
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"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."

Socrates on contentment
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"Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one."

Socrates on control   

"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults."

Socrates on correction   

"Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward."

A Course In Miracles on perception
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"This instant is the only time there is."

A Course In Miracles on present
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"I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt."

A Course In Miracles on choice
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"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."

Plato on education
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"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."

Plato on dictators and dictatorship
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"Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."

Plato on excess
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"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

Plato on forgiveness
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"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."

Socrates on friends and friendship
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"He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature."

Socrates on contentment
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"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for."

Socrates on writers and writing   

"Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know."

Socrates on wisdom
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"I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within."

Socrates on love
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"Nature has given us two ears, two eyes, and but one tongue-to the end that we should hear and see more than we speak."

Socrates on listening
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"Let him that would move the world, first move himself."

Socrates on influence
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"The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow."

Socrates on humor
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"Call no man unhappy until he is married."

Socrates on happiness
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"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."

Socrates on hatred
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"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."

Socrates on feminism
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"The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor."

Socrates on envy
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"Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober -- minded men."

Socrates on education
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"The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods."

Socrates on desire
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"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."

Socrates on dishonesty
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