"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it -- and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again -- and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."

Twain, Mark on experience
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"Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."

Twain, Mark on duty
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"Achievement is not the most important thing -- Authenticity is"

Unknown, Source on integrity
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"It is far better to be trusted and respected that it is to be liked."

Unknown, Source on integrity
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"A person is not given integrity. It results from the relentless pursuit of honesty at all times."

Unknown, Source on integrity
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"The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on integrity
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"In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are."

Bradford, Gamaliel on integrity   

"When anger rises, think of the consequences."

Confucius on anger
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"Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it."

Confucius on learning
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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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