"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience."

Waitley, Denis on mistakes
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"To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on immortality
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"Emotions have taught mankind to reason."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on emotions
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"We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten."

Pavese, Cesare on memory
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"Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet."

Pogrebin, Letty Cottin on inheritance   

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."

Jones, Franklin P. on experience   

"Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice."

Jones, Franklin P. on law and lawyers
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"Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile."

Jones, Franklin P. on love
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"Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there."

Jones, Franklin P. on neighbors
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"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."

Jones, Franklin P. on children
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"All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream."

Poe, Edgar Allan on dream
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"Management by objective works -- if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't."

Drucker, Peter F. on management   

"The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery."

Sinclair, Upton on credit   

"A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life."

Wilde, Oscar on confession
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"I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great."

Charles, Ray on greatness
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"If the people have no bread, let them eat cake."

Antoinette, Marie on service   

"The worst men often give the best advice."

Bailey, Philip James on advice
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"Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one."

Ball, Ivern on advice
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"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings."

Carter, Hodding on inheritance
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"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."

Churchill, Winston on worry
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"Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river."

Hull, Cordell on insults
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"The mind is lowered through association with inferiors. With equals it attains equality; and with superiors, superiority."

Hitopadesa on friends and friendship   

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Einstein, Albert on difficulties
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"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."

Twain, Mark on anger
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"An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason."

Syrus, Publilius on anger
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"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on deception
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