"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state."

Jefferson, Thomas on soldier
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"Poetry must have something in it that is barbaric, vast and wild."

Diderot, Denis on poetry and poets
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"To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail."

Maslow, Abraham H. on adaptability
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"Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use"

Denham, Sir John on books - reading   

"A good speaker makes a good liar."

Proverb, German on speakers and speaking
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"Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely."

Witkin, Georgia on money   

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

Ruskin, John on ability
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"Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical"

Berra, Yogi on baseball
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"A man is not old as long as he is seeking something."

Rostand, Jean on age and aging
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"People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one."

Sculley, John on joy   

"The greatest success, is successful self acceptance."

Sweet, Ben on self-esteem
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"Florida, is Gods waiting room."

Le Grice, Glenn on retirement   

"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

Einstein, Albert on apathy
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"It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man."

Syrus, Publilius on integrity
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"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."

West, Mae on evil
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"The man who cannot believe in himself cannot believe in anything else. The basis of all integrity and character is whatever faith we have in our own integrity."

Smith, Roy L. on character
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"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."

Shaw, George Bernard on power
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"Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it."

Confucius on learning
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"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."

Bacon, Francis on opportunity
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"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea."

Dinesen, Isak on remedies   

"Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence."

Tikkanen, Henrik on intelligence and intellectuals
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"If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

Bankhead, Tallulah on mistakes
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"Do well and you will have no need for ancestors."

Voltaire on ancestry
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"It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."

Maugham, W. Somerset on expectation
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"A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial."

Twain, Mark on trials
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"The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on control
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"Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars."

Curcio, Joan L. on action
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"Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life."

Lakein, Alan on time
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"When God measures man, He puts the tape around his heart -- not his head."

Guideposts on character
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"I am not young enough to know everything."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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"I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache."

Carroll, Lewis on courage
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"There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns."

Pilpay on risk
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"Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds."

English, Thomas Dunn on ambition   

"There is a certain combination of anarchy and discipline in the way I work."

Niro, Robert De on discipline
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"Great effort springs naturally from a great attitude."

Riley, Pat on attitude
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"Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping."

Hare, A. W. on caution
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"Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise."

Penn, William on knowledge   

"Music causes us to think eloquently."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on music
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"If you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may say with confidence that he is a good man."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on laughter
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"Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race."

Burton, Sir Richard on travel
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