"The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret."

Dali, Salvador on influence
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"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on learning
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"Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred."

Proverb, Korean on influence
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"You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time."

Knox, John on leadership
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"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."

Aristotle on action
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"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching."

Aristotle on teacher
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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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"Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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"Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them."

Rutherford, Samuel on children
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"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit."

Shay, R. E. on luck
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"Money is like manure. If you spread it around it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place it stinks like hell."

Murchison, Jr., Clint on money
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"A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life."

Byrne, Robert on politics
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"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

Bacon, Francis on solitude
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"SIN: Self-Inflicted Nonsense"

Butterworth, Eric on sin
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"The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected."

Rushdie, Salman on literature   

"Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Angelou, Maya on nature
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"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on truth
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"The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy."

Hazlitt, William on hypocrisy   

"Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step -- it is an old business procedure."

Lebowitz, Fran on opinions
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"Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The great man of the age is the one who can put into words the will of his age, tell his age what its will is, and accomplish it. What he does is the heart and the essence of his age, he actualizes his age. The man who lacks sense enough to despise public opinion expressed in gossip will never do anything great."

Hegel, Georg on public opinion
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"The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip."

Edel, Leon on biography
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"I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called scientific mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips."

Ozick, Cynthia on facts   

"A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself."

Kirk, Lisa on gossip
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"Ah, well, the truth is always one thing, but in a way it's the other thing, the gossip, that counts. It shows where people's hearts lie."

Scott, Paul on gossip   

"A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer."

Acheson, Dean on management
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"Great necessities call out great virtues."

Adams, Abigail on virtue
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"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others."

Bierce, Ambrose on calamity
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"A person's worth is contingent upon who he is, not upon what he does, or how much he has. The worth of a person, or a thing, or an idea, is in being, not in doing, not in having."

Hilton, Alice Mary on self-esteem
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"Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce those material resources which can secure them from want at home and against aggression from abroad."

Hutchinson, B. E. on security   

"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too."

Maugham, W. Somerset on freedom
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"When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again."

Hamilton, Edith on freedom
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"What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice."

Macleish, Archibald on freedom
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"The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves."

Ditka, Mike on motivation
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"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

Eliot, George on dream
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"Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair."

Cowper, William on absence
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"Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering."

Landor, Walter Savage on absence
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"I never had but one intrigue yet: but I confess I long to have another. Pray heaven it end as the first did tho , that we may both grow weary at a time; for 'Tis a melancholy thing for lovers to outlive one another."

Vanbrugh, Sir John on adultery   

"What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on happiness
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"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination."

Rogers, Carl on life
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"I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

Dean, Jimmy on change
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