"Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year."

Adams, Franklin P. on health
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"The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears."

Cheney, John Vance on tears
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work."

Edison, Thomas A. on failure
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"To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still."

Shakespeare, William on beauty
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"The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge."

Russell, Bertrand on life
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"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."

Russell, Bertrand on life
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"Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly."

Russell, Bertrand on happiness
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"Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time."

Russell, Bertrand on materialism   

"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."

Gibran, Kahlil on dream
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"The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain."

Gibran, Kahlil on desire
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"When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies."

Gibran, Kahlil on advice
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"Work eight hours and sleep eight hours and make sure that they are not the same hours."

Pickens, T. Boone on work   

"Love is, above all, the gift of oneself."

Ardele, Jean Anouilh on love
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"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

Cohen, Leonard on hope
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"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them."

Picasso, Pablo on achievement
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"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."

West, Mae on temptation
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"Whenever I have to choose between two evils, I always like to try the one I haven't tried before."

West, Mae on choice
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"It's about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it."

West, Mae on
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"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."

Angelou, Maya on hope
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"A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of the politics."

Himmel, Samuel on dictators and dictatorship   

"Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time."

Bernays, Edward L. on dictators and dictatorship   

"Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well."

Butler, Samuel on lies and lying
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"And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in masquerade."

Byron, Lord on lies and lying
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"I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy."

Butler, Samuel on lies and lying
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"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."

Addison, Joseph on hope
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"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."

Shaw, George Bernard on teacher
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"The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel."

Shaw, George Bernard on quarrels
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"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

Gide, Andre on action
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"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hell
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

Brodsky, Joseph on books - reading
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"Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on force
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"Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it."

Golas, Thaddeus on self-improvement
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"The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much."

Glien, Germain G. on listening
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"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."

Hugo, Victor on adversity
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"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

Brown, Les on age and aging
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"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Downs, Hugh on happiness
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"He who does not hope to win has already lost."

Olmedo, Jose Joaquin on hope
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"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first."

Leach, Reggie on enthusiasm
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"Never let the other fellow set the agenda."

Baker, James on control
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