"What has become clear to you since we last met?"

Franklin, Benjamin on Discovery
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"Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair."

Burns, George on Government
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Adversity
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"Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important."

Eliot, T. S. on Pride
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"When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy."

Rushdie, Salman on Thoughts and Thinking
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"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on Procrastination
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"All my life I have had a choice of hate and love. I chose love and I am here"

A.R. Rahman on Love
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"Power is poison. It's effect on Presidents had always been tragic."

Adams, Henry Brooks on President
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"I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."

Wagner, Jane on Complaints and Complaining
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on Adversity
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"This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions."

Nagarjuna, Siddha on Action
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"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."

Buddha on Present
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"Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold."

Marston, William Moulton on Want
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"It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do."

Hubbard, Elbert on Decisions
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"We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal."

Williams, Tennessee on Suspicion
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"You, betrayed by time and space, Seek and find your proper place."

Wizard, Her Majesty's on Purpose
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"?How does one become a butterfly? she asked pensively. You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

Paulus, Trina on Risk
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"How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say."

Wilde, Oscar on Hypocrisy
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Wilde, Oscar on Happiness
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"None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."

Wilde, Oscar on Faults
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"Love is as much of an object as an obsession, everybody wants it, everybody seeks it, but few ever achieve it, those who do will cherish it, be lost in it, and among all, never... never forget it."

Judalet, Curtis on Love
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on Forgiveness
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"Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen."

Noonan, Peggy on Politicians and Politics
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

Shaw, George Bernard on Change
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"No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him."

Hill, Napoleon on Control
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"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

Bierce, Ambrose on Anger
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"I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark."

Thoreau, Henry David on Determination
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"Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door."

Schlessinger, Dr. Laura on Attitude
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"Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities."

Schuller, Robert H. on Impossibility
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"Look up, and not down; Out and not in; Forward and not back; And lend a hand."

Hale, Edward Everett on Support
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"Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis."

Collier, Robert on Crisis
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"Thoughts lead on to purposes; purposes go forth in action; actions form habits; habits decide character; and character fixes our destiny."

Edwards, Tryon on Destiny
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"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

Hemingway, Ernest on Listening
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"Cure the disease and kill the patient."

Bacon, Francis on Doctors
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"When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much."

Bagnold, Enid on Doctors
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"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."

Aurelius, Marcus on Thoughts and Thinking
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"You can only be free if I am free."

Darrow, Clarence on Freedom
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"Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be."

Byrhhe, Anne on Action
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"I always write a good first line, but I have trouble in writing the others."

Moliere on Writers and Writing
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"We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree."

Casals, Pablo on Humankind
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