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

Jones, Franklin P. on Experience
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"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 Dreams
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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
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"The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery."

Sinclair, Upton on Credit
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"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
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"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
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"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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