"The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language."

Delacroix, Henri on language   

"To have another language is to possess a second soul."

Charlemagne on language
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"As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold."

Swift, Jonathan on love
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"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision."

Rand, Ayn on vision
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"To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real power."

Rand, Ayn on power
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"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat."

Tomlin, Lily on job
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"The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live."

Rand, Ayn on morality
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"We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living."

Brown, Dean Charles R. on work
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"Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning."

Miller, Henry on life
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"What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair."

Thompson, Roy on heroes and heroism
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"Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money, or the daughter who held her tongue again and again. All this anonymous heroism."

Noonan, Peggy on heroes and heroism
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"In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs."

Boorstin, Daniel J. on heroes and heroism   

"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."

Smith, Logan Pearsall on books - reading
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime."

Bronowski, Jacob on dissent
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"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy -- but that could change."

Quayle, Dan on freedom   

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

Adams, John on democracy
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"What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever."

Dyke, Henry Van on character
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"Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."

Dyke, Henry Van on talent
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"Anyone afraid of what he thinks television does to the world is probably just afraid of the world."

James, Clive on vision
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"Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves."

Hubbard, Elbert on parents and parenting
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"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart."

Swift, Jonathan on money   

"A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity."

Long, Lazarus on self-confidence
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"I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom."

Dylan, Bob on heroes and heroism
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"Failure doesn't mean you are a failure... it just means you haven't succeeded yet."

Schuller, Robert H. on failure
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"What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear."

Hammarskjold, Dag on loneliness
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"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

Hammarskjold, Dag on purpose
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"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."

Mother Teresa on poverty and the poor
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"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness."

Cousins, Norman on loneliness
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"The surest cure for vanity is loneliness."

Wolfe, Thomas on loneliness
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"Strife is better than loneliness."

Proverb, Irish on loneliness
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"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Churchill, Winston on success
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"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

Waitley, Denis on failure
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"Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."

Eliot, George on failure
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"I don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, How can we screw this kid up."

Bishop, Russell on parents and parenting
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"You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."

Ciardi, John on suffering   

"The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent."

Maurois, Andre on writers and writing
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"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on enthusiasm
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"The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope."

Carlyle, Thomas on despair
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"I was asked to memorize what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner."

Crowley, Aleister on school