"There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose."

Bulger, William M. on character
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"We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them."

Vizinczey, Stephen on popular culture
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"The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion."

Carlyle, Thomas on civilization
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"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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"Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build."

Collier, Robert on imagination
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"Cherish you visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate achievements."

Hill, Napoleon on vision
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"Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it."

Unknown, Source on education
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"When the sun rises, it rises for everyone."

Proverb, Cuban on opportunity   

"Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins."

Proverb, American Indian on criticism
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"Of what does not concern you say nothing good or bad."

Proverb, Italian on communication
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"I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up."

Lehrer, Tom on communication
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"Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through."

Unknown, Source on change
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"Parting is such sweet sorrow."

Shakespeare, William on absence
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"I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Though this be madness, yet there is method in it. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on insanity
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"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."

Shakespeare, William on friends and friendship
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"God had given you one face, and you make yourself another. [Hamlet]"

Shakespeare, William on faces
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"Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise."

Shakespeare, William on doubt
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"All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"To be able to say how much love, is love but little."

Petrarch, Francesco on love
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"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."

Thích Nhat Hanh on love
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"To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence."

Smith, Sydney on love
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"The greatest joy of life is to love and be loved."

Clyde, R.D. on happiness
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"We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving"

Meltzer, Bernard on giving
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"Words of love, are works of love."

Alger, William R. on words
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"Live for love. Without love, you don't live."

Unknown, Source on love
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"There is no remedy for love than to love more."

Thoreau, Henry David on love
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"Love, while you are able to love."

Frieligrath, A. on love
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"If there is anything better than to be loved it is loving."

Unknown, Source on love
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"Men often give love for sex, women often give sex for love."

Unknown, Source on women
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"Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined -- It dies."

Unknown, Source on love
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"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on love
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"An act of love that fails is just as much a part of the divine life as an act of love that succeeds, for love is measured by fullness, not by reception."

Lokes, Harold on love
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"Love conquers all, but if love doesn't do it, try hard work"

Unknown, Source on work
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"Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love."

Key, Ellen on marriage
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"The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance."

Hwang, Brian on ignorance
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"Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless."

Lawrence, D. H. on love
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"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."

Burke, Edmund on patriotism
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"If you wish to be loved; Love!"

Seneca on love
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"Those who haven't loved somebody else, more than they love themselves haven't even begun to live"

Unknown, Source on love
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