"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves."

Hugo, Victor on love
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"Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love."

Rand, Ayn on love
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"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think."

Rand, Ayn on wealth
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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books."

Proverb, Chinese on wisdom
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"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names."

Proverb, Chinese on names
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"A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion."

Proverb, Chinese on decisions
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"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"If a man fools me once, shame on him. If he fools me twice, shame on me."

Proverb, Chinese on fools and foolishness
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"If you want 1 year of prosperity, grow grain. If you want 10 years of prosperity, grow trees. If you want 100 years of prosperity, grow people."

Proverb, Chinese on prosperity   

"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."

Cushing, Richard C. on appearance
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"I cannot be indifferent to the assassination of a member of my profession, We should be obliged to shut up business if we, the Kings, were to consider the assassination of Kings as of no consequence at all."

Edward VII on kings   

"One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on attitude   

"I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right -- shame on you!"

Armstrong, Louis on attitude
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"We are the children of our own deeds."

Hugo, Victor on deeds and good deeds   

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"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. "

Madison, James on uncategorised   

"The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those entrusted with it should be kept in dependence on the people, by a short duration of their appointments; and, that, even during this short period, the trust should be placed not in a few, but in a number of hands. Stability, on the contrary, requires, that the hands, in which power is lodged, should continue for a length of time, the same. A frequent change of men will result from a frequent return of electors, and a frequent change of measures, from a frequent change of men; whilst energy in Government requires not only a certain duration of power, but the execution of it by a single hand. "

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"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

Malcolm X on adversity
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"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word freedom out of your vocabulary."

Malcolm X on freedom   

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."

Malcolm X on freedom
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"They condemn what they do not understand."

Cicero, Marcus T. on criticism
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"To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child."

Cicero, Marcus T. on children
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"The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."

Hugo, Victor on nature   

"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

Hugo, Victor on action
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"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat."

Cicero, Marcus T. on food and eating
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"As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights."

Madison, James on property   

"The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory."

Cicero, Marcus T. on glory
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"The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves."

Cicero, Marcus T. on history and historians
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"What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us."

Cicero, Marcus T. on animals
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"Let reason govern desire."

Cicero, Marcus T. on reason   

"We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue."

Cicero, Marcus T. on action   

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."

Malcolm X on purpose
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"Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it."

Malcolm X on truth
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"A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk."

Johnson, Samuel on alcohol and alcoholism   

"I drink to forget I drink."

Lewis, Joe E. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"It pays to get drunk with the best people."

Lewis, Joe E. on alcohol and alcoholism   

"I only drink to make other people seem more interesting."

Nathan, George Jean on alcohol and alcoholism   

"What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for."

Proverb, Irish on alcohol and alcoholism
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"When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink."

Rabelais, Francois on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I'm not so think as you drunk I am."

Squire, John on alcohol and alcoholism