"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?"

Moore, George on reality
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"Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it."

Lao-Tzu on power
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"The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow."

Proverb, Chinese on victory
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"Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on victory   

"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."

Gentry, David Tyson on friends and friendship
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"It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen."

Bardot, Brigitte on maturity
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself."

Billings, Josh on animals
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"Every man has three characters -- that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has."

Karr, Alphonse on character   

"By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act."

Helvetius, Claude A. on desire
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"A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."

Washington, George on friends and friendship
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"Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."

Ruskin, John on aid and assistance   

"You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all."

Horace on happiness
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"The key to every man is his thought. He can only be reformed by showing him a new idea which commands his own. "

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on uncategorised
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"The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him."

Lincoln, Abraham on self-improvement
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"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."

Brault, Robert on friends and friendship
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"Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend -- or a meaningful day."

Dalai Lama on friends and friendship
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"Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain."

Aurelius, Marcus on focus
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"Three levels of organizational vision: 1. The Do-able 2. The Conceivable 3. The Previously Unthinkable."

Unknown, Source on vision
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"The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face."

Thackeray, William M. on attitude
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"Enthusiasm is a vital element toward the individual success of every man or woman."

Hilton, Conrad on enthusiasm
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"The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place."

Marden, Orison Swett on leadership
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"Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service."

Stephen, Leslie on honesty   

"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

Hemingway, Ernest on life
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"Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire."

Unser, Bobby on desire
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"Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact."

Wilde, Oscar on conversation
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"He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him."

Marden, Orison Swett on leadership   

"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship
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"Make your life a happy one. That is where success is possible to every man."

Powell, Robert on life
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"Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on genius
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"Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul."

Beecher, Henry Ward on heaven   

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"Every man needs two women, a quiet home-maker, and a thrilling nymph."

Murdoch, Iris on love
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"A man in love is incomplete until he has married -- then he's finished."

Gabor, Zsa Zsa on marriage
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"Every man dies. Not every man really lives. [In the movie Braveheart]"

Wallace, William on death
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"Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect of his own character."

Boardman, George D. on character
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"Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."

Einstein, Albert on self-esteem
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"What every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise -- although the philosophers generally call it recognition!"

James, William on praise