"Action is the real measure of intelligence."

Hill, Napoleon on action
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"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on friends and friendship
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"A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational."

Aquinas, St. Thomas on reason
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"We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation."

Shinn, Florence Scovel on affirmation
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"If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it."

Bradbury, Ray on joy
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"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone."

Capone, Al on power
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"Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you."

Peale, Norman Vincent on resentment
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"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."

Shaw, George Bernard on friends and friendship
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"In law, nothing is certain but the expense."

Butler, Samuel on law and lawyers
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"Our human laws are more or less imperfect copies of the external laws as we see them."

Froude, James A. on law and lawyers   

"Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke."

Holmes Jr., Oliver Wendell on law and lawyers   

"The trouble with law is lawyers."

Darrow, Clarence on law and lawyers
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"Abstainer. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."

Bierce, Ambrose on abstinence
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"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe."

Service, Robert W. on challenges
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"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."

Wilde, Oscar on humankind
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"A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life."

Darwin, Charles R. on time
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"Never give advice unless asked."

Proverb, German on advice
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"Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it."

Franklin, Benjamin on advice
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"The less routine the more life."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on life
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"Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade."

Barrie, Sir James M. on anger
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"You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing."

Carnegie, Dale on joy
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"Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness..."

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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"Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it."

Harrison, Rex on exhilaration
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"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

Churchill, Winston on vision
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"Men argue, nature acts."

Voltaire on argument
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"To have another language is to possess a second soul."

Charlemagne on language
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"I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks."

Boone, Daniel on confusion
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"Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you."

Proverb, Spanish on gossip
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"Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on friends and friendship   

"If a man can see both sides of a problem, you know that none of his money is tied up in it."

Ross, Verda on problems   

"Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult."

Bennis, Warren on leadership
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"Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."

Epictetus on hope
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"While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior."

Link, Henry C. on mistakes
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"The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on purpose
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"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."

Barrymore, John on dream
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"Man's character is his fate."

Heraclitus on character
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"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

Hill, Napoleon on adversity
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"For the friendship of two, the patience of one is required."

Proverb, Indian on friends and friendship
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"The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on war
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"He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that."

Mill, John Stuart on knowledge
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