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"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."

Barton, Bruce on enthusiasm    Share


"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do."

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic) on thoughts and thinking    Share

"It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."

Lippmann, Walter on government    Share

"No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream."

King Jr. Martin Luther on action
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"Just do what you do best."

Auerbach, Red on ability
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"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."

Darrow, Clarence on parents and parenting
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"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."

Pavese, Cesare on suicide
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"You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise."

Newman, James on circumstance
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"It is better to have too much courtesy than too little, provided you are not equally courteous to all, for that would be injustice."

Gracian, Baltasar on courtesy    Share

"People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves."

Edwards, Tryon on self-improvement
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"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."

Schweitzer, Albert on kindness
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"To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better."

Edwards, Tryon on anger
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"Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves."

Hubbard, Elbert on parents and parenting
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"To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Einstein, Albert on apathy
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"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hatred
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"A pig bought on credit is forever grunting."

Proverb, Spanish on credit    Share

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

Joyce, James on mistakes
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"Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it."

Proverb, Italian on welfare
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"Beware of one who has nothing to lose."

Proverb, Italian on caution
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"The best armor is to keep out of range."

Proverb, Italian on strategies
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"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree."

Rohn, Jim on change
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"The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

Shaw, George Bernard on debt
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"Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing."

Judd, H. Stanley on mistakes
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"You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires."

Judd, H. Stanley on desire    Share

"If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it."

Bradbury, Ray on joy
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"The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it."

Brecht, Bertolt on law and lawyers
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"Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea."

Half, Robert on acting and actors
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"There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it."

Ellis, Havelock on achievement
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"If you're not in New York, you're camping out."

Dewey, Thomas E. on life    Share

"Successful people are simply people who learn to solve their problems... they are not people without problems."

Unknown, Source on problems
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"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."

Nixon, Richard M. on prejudice
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"I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves."

Swift, Jonathan on law and lawyers    Share

"Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape."

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"As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it -- whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash."

Lee, Harper on racism    Share

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