"If you shoot at a king you must kill him."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on kings
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"Be true to your own act and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on honesty
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"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on heroes and heroism
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"He is great who is what he is from nature, and who never reminds us of others."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on greatness
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"The less government we have the better."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on government
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"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"Accept your genius and say what you think."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on ancestry
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"We aim above the mark to hit the mark."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on goals
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"To live outside the law, you must be honest."

Dylan, Bob on honesty   

"Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist."

Ash, Mary Kay on honesty
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"The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on secrets   

"Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth."

Proverb, Portuguese on secrets
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"Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on secrets   

"How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on secrets
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"A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others."

La Bruyere, Jean De on secrets
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."

Johnson, Samuel on secrets   

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"To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly."

Johnson, Samuel on secrets
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"Secrecy is the badge of fraud."

Chadwick, Sir John on secrets   

"You people are telling me what you think I want to know. I want to know what is actually happening."

Abrams, Creighton on communication
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"The most important ingredient we put into any relationship is not what we say or what we do, but what we are. And if our words and our actions come from superficial human relations techniques (the Personality Ethic) rather than from our own inner core (the Character Ethic), others will sense that duplicity. We simply won't be able to create and sustain the foundation necessary for effective interdependence."

Covey, Stephen R. on relationship
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"People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them."

Burke, Edmund on relationship
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"We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act and, in acting, to live."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on decisions
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"Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions."

Callaghan, James on decisions
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"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure."

Canning, George on decisions
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"When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living."

Rowland, Helen on husbands   

"I'll take fifty percent efficiency to get one hundred percent loyalty."

Goldwyn, Samuel on loyalty   

"Dishonest people conceal their faults from themselves as well as others, honest people know and confess them."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on honesty
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"One good analogy is worth three hours discussion."

Mccay, James T. on agreement   

"If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."

Freud, Sigmund on sons
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"A jack of both sides, is before long, trusted by nobody, and abused by both parties."

Proverb on loyalty
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"A woman asking Am I good? Am I satisfied? is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be."

Cartland, Barbara on wives
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"Choose a wife by your ear than your eye."

Fuller, Thomas on wives
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"Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do... but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did."

Unknown, Source on wives   

"When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say."

Wharton, Edith on decisions   

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want."

Stein, Ben on decisions
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"In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

Roosevelt, Theodore on decisions
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"The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong."

Carlyle, Thomas on decisions
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"Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them."

Fick, Oliver A. on decisions   

"Indecision is the seedling of fear."

Hill, Napoleon on decisions
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