"Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself."

Milton, John on books - reading   

"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle on genius
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"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."

Twain, Mark on congress   

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied."

Twain, Mark on envy
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"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."

Twain, Mark on friends and friendship
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"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."

Twain, Mark on government
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"We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on admiration
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"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."

Swift, Jonathan on vision
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"Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true."

Keats, John on failure
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"I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion --I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more --I could be martyred for my religion --Love is my religion --I could die for that."

Keats, John on art   

"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear."

Lennon, John on love
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."

Keats, John on certainty
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"Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last."

Poe, Edgar Allan on death
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"I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence."

Poe, Edgar Allan on self-confidence
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"One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe."

Sand, George on death
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"People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves."

Brouhours on misfortunes
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer on genius
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"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all."

Maugham, W. Somerset on beauty   

"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

Holmes, John Andrew on ability
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"Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!"

Ford, Henry on ability
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on ability
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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

Colton, Charles Caleb on ability
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"Ability without honor is useless."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

Bach, Richard on farewells
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"Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."

Bach, Richard on friends and friendship
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"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

Kennedy, John F. on effort
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"Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate."

Kennedy, John F. on fear
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"True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope."

Kennedy, John F. on happiness
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"I am certain that after the dust of centuries has passed over our cities, we, too, will be remembered not for victories or defeats in battle or in politics, but for our contribution to the human spirit."

Kennedy, John F. on human spirit
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"Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on ambition   

"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on hatred
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"There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on power
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"Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that."

Barrie, Sir James M. on achievement
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"Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers."

Voltaire on questions
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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."

Gibran, Kahlil on dream
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"Prejudices are what fools use for reason."

Voltaire on prejudice
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"I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age."

Voltaire on doctors
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"Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."

Kennedy, John F. on humankind
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