"Water is the only drink for a wise man."

Thoreau, Henry David on alcohol and alcoholism
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"You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline -- it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER."

Zappa, Frank on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship
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"They who drink beer will think beer."

Irving, Washington on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."

Hemingway, Ernest on story and story-telling   

"I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen."

Hemingway, Ernest on listening
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"Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication."

Byron, Lord on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

Churchill, Winston on alcohol and alcoholism
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"It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it."

Fields, W. C. on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure. When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky? When you are cold and wet what else can warm you? Before an attack who can say anything that gives you the momentary well-being that rum does? The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight. You have to do that cold. But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief."

Hemingway, Ernest on alcohol and alcoholism
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"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places."

Hemingway, Ernest on adversity
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"A man can be destroyed but not defeated."

Hemingway, Ernest on defeat
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"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."

Hemingway, Ernest on economy and economics
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"In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused."

Hemingway, Ernest on experience
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"There is no friend as loyal as a book"

Hemingway, Ernest on friends and friendship
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"Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."

Hemingway, Ernest on life
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"What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others."

Confucius on example
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"When anger rises, think of the consequences."

Confucius on anger
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"A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door."

Confucius on planning
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"When prosperity comes, do not use all of it."

Confucius on prosperity
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"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

Confucius on revenge
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"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."

Confucius on action
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"If you don't ask, you don't get."

Gandhi, Mahatma on ask
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"Patience means self-suffering."

Gandhi, Mahatma on patience
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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humor
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"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humankind
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."

Gandhi, Mahatma on despair
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"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem."

Gandhi, Mahatma on potential
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"Poverty is the worst form of violence."

Gandhi, Mahatma on poverty and the poor
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"live as if your were to die tomorrow. learn as if you were to live forever."

Gandhi, Mahatma on life
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"You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on control
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"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

Gandhi, Mahatma on violence
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"Those who know how to think need no teachers."

Gandhi, Mahatma on teacher
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"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Gandhi, Mahatma on change
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"They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."

Gandhi, Mahatma on self-respect
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"Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."

Gandhi, Mahatma on action
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"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one."

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"Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing."

Voltaire on doctors
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