"When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results."

Coolidge, Calvin on work   

"When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous."

Coolidge, Calvin on credulity   

"When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. "

Coolidge, Calvin on uncategorised   

"Nothing is easier than spending the public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody. "

Coolidge, Calvin on uncategorised   

"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."

Coolidge, Calvin on heroes and heroism   

"The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved."

Lynes, Russell on insults
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"Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence."

Lynes, Russell on cynics and cynicism
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"The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game."

Beecher, Henry Ward on cynics and cynicism
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"A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset."

Cozzens, James G. on cynics and cynicism   

"Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and moan. Omit the negative propositions. Challenge us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, or bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on cynics and cynicism   

"It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to."

Hurst, Fannie on cynics and cynicism   

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

Mencken, H. L. on cynics and cynicism
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"The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."

Lynes, Russell on acceptance
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"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

Dowd, Maureen on acceptance
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"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

Francis, Brendan on acceptance
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"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

King Jr. Martin Luther on acceptance
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"Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."

Miller, Henry on acceptance
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"If your time ain't come not even a doctor can kill you."

Proverb, American on death
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"The love of evil is the root of all money."

Proverb, American on evil   

"What is an expert? Someone who is twenty miles from home."

Proverb, American on experts   

"You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it."

Proverb, American on ignorance   

"There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening."

Proverb, American on people
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"Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens."

Rooney, Andy on happiness
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"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."

Franklin, Benjamin on expectation
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"It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough."

Crisp, Quentin on relationship
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"Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death."

Dowling, Colette on relationship
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"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

Angelis, Barbara De on adversity
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"The search for someone to blame is always successful."

Half, Robert on blame
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"People who are out to find fault seldom find anything else. It is a waste of time, no matter how much you find fault, it is not going to change anything. It's better to find a remedy."

Dye, James on blame   

"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."

Shakespeare, William on evil
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"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"Love bears it out even to the edge of doom."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"'Tis the mind that makes the body rich."

Shakespeare, William on mind
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"If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence."

Lao-Tzu on giving
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"A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth."

Lao-Tzu on growth
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"To lead people walk behind them."

Lao-Tzu on leadership
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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

Lao-Tzu on beginning
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"By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning."

Lao-Tzu on attachment
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"We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams."

Jackson, Jesse on dream
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"When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through."

Jackson, Jesse on opportunity
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