"We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier."

Twain, Mark on death
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"Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes."

Twain, Mark on death
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"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

Kingsley, Charles on happiness   

"There are two freedoms -- the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought."

Kingsley, Charles on freedom   

"Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know."

Kingsley, Charles on excellence   

"Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire."

El-Sadat, Anwar on slavery
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"We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort."

Owens, Jesse on determination
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"Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival."

Deming, W. Edwards on learning
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"It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song. But the man worth while is the one who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on adversity
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"Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice."

Mayo, William James on mistakes
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"Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation."

Koop, C. Everett on parents and parenting
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"The earth seemed to move with me. I found a new source of power and beauty, a source I never knew existed."

Bannister, Roger on power   

"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."

Baldwin, James on abuse
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"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

Bannister, Roger on determination
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"It is impossible for capitalism to survive, primarily because the system of capitalism needs some blood to suck. Capitalism used to be like an eagle, but now it's more like a vulture. It used to be strong enough to go and suck anybody's blood whether they were strong or not. But now it has become more cowardly, like the vulture, and it can only suck the blood of the helpless. As the nations of the world free themselves, the capitalism has less victims, less to suck, and it becomes weaker and weaker. It's only a matter of time in my opinion before it will collapse completely."

Malcolm X on capitalism
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"The only way we'll get freedom for ourselves is to identify ourselves with every oppressed people in the world. We are blood brothers to the people of Brazil, Venezuela, Haiti, Cuba -- yes Cuba too."

Malcolm X on freedom
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"Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on deeds and good deeds   

"The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on action   

"Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on hypocrisy
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"One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others."

Rutledge, Archibald on appreciation
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"If you can't, you must. If you must, you can."

Robbins, Anthony on impossibility
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"Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment."

Robbins, Anthony on fulfillment
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"Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you."

Robbins, Anthony on purpose
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"Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision."

Robbins, Anthony on decisions
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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Havel, Vaclav on hope
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"No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."

Eliot, George on evil
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"Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."

Kennedy, John F. on peace
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"May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on dissent
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"One always has time enough, if one will apply it well."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on time
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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