"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

Einstein, Albert on Human Nature
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"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."

Gaultier, Jules de on Imagination
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"Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be -- like the reality of yesterday -- an illusion tomorrow."

Pirandello, Luigi on Reality
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"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them -- that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

Lao-Tzu on Change
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"Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown."

Shinn, George on Growth
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"Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts."

King, Stephen on Pain
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"The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person."

Hoffer, Eric on Suspicion
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"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

Eliot, George on Suspicion
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"Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on Survival
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"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

Hill, Napoleon on Sacrifice
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"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."

Devlin, Bernadette on Sacrifice
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"America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."

Clemenceau, Georges on America
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"I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President."

Chaplin, Charlie on America
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"America is the best half-educated country in the world."

Butler, Nicholas on America
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"America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got."

Bunch, Charlotte on America
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"America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco."

Bartholdi, Frederic Auguste on America
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"Suspicion is the cancer of friendship."

Petrarch, Francesco on Suspicion
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"Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium."

Sarraute, Nathalie on Suspicion
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"We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected."

Thoreau, Henry David on Suspicion
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"It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired, you quit when the gorilla is tired."

Strauss, Robert on Perseverance
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"Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold."

Meldrum, Dr. A. B. on Perseverance
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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you."

James, William on Perseverance
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"Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel."

Hill, Napoleon on Perseverance
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"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another."

Elliott, Walter on Perseverance
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

Coolidge, Calvin on Perseverance
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"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all."

Carnegie, Dale on Perseverance
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"When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up."

Brown, Les on Perseverance
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"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

Andrews, Julie on Perseverance
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"One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve."

Allen, George on Perseverance
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"We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal."

Williams, Tennessee on Suspicion
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"Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment."

Collier, Robert on Desire
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"The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True features make the beauty of the face; true proportions, the beauty of architecture; true measures, the beauty of harmony and music."

Shaftesbury, Lord on Truth
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"Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts."

Hill, Napoleon on Imagination
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"One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist."

Durkheim, Emile on Contemplation
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"The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak."

Charell, Ralph on Self-talk
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"Faithfulness and sincerity are the highest things."

Confucius on Faithfulness
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"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star."

Confucius on Ignorance
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"To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

Confucius on Knowledge
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"I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being."

Confucius on Motivation
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"Everything is a gift of the universe -- even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment."

Keyes Jr., Ken on Oneness
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