"No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good."

Creighton, Mandell on altruism
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"The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts."

Illich, Ivan on altruism   

"Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat"

Marquis, Don on cats   

"If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air."

Lessing, Doris on cats   

"Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking rules. Their evil look at such times is no human projection: the cat may be the only animal who savors the perverse or reflects upon it."

Paglia, Camille on cats   

"Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat."

Twain, Mark on cats
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"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow."

Valdez, Jeff on cats
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"Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. But to move an audience in such a role, to hear in the applause that unmistakable note which breaks through good theatre manners and comes from the heart, is to feel that you have won through to life itself. Such pleasure does not vanish with the fall of the curtain, but becomes part of one's own life."

Markova, Dame Alice on applause   

"Applause is a receipt, not a bill."

Schnabel, Artur on applause   

"When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."

Lewis, Sinclair on   

"There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble."

Lewis, Sinclair on criticism
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"Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country."

Lewis, Sinclair on patriotism   

"What is love? It is the morning and the evening star."

Lewis, Sinclair on love
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"The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is..."

Lewis, Sinclair on america
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"That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence."

Unamuno, Miguel De on fascism   

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder."

Sinclair, Upton on fascism   

"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

Miller, Henry on war
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"Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake."

Rorty, Richard on war   

"The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness."

Woolf, Virginia on war
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"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on fascism
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"Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place."

Silone, Ignazio on fascism
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"The industrial landscape is already littered with remains of once successful companies that could not adapt their strategic vision to altered conditions of competition."

Abernathy on change
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"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

Almanac, Mary S. on change
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"That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along."

Alther, Lisa on change
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"So long as a person is capable of self-renewal they are a living being."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on change
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"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking."

Asimov, Isaac on change
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"Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first."

Bailey, Pearl on change
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"Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock."

Baldwin, James on change
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"When you're through changing, you're through."

Barton, Bruce on change
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"The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it."

Baudrillard, Jean on change
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"Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."

Bryant, William C. on change
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"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."

Branden, Nathaniel on change
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"There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes."

Bhagavad Gita on change
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"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly"

Bergson, Henri L. on change
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"If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place."

Bellin, Gita on change
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"If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore."

Hufstedler, Shirley on risk
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"It is playing safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity."

Hammarskjold, Dag on risk
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"You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

Gretzky, Wayne on risk
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"One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure."

Gardner, John W. on risk
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"Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference."

Frost, Robert on risk
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