"The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination."

Voltaire on government
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"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."

Carey, Sandara on knowledge
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"We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage."

Churchill, Winston on age and aging
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"The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on eccentricity
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"He's winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike."

Shakespeare, William on wit
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"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."

Shaw, George Bernard on fellowship
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"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."

Camus, Albert on life
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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

Confucius on wisdom
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"Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins."

Dane, Frank on winners and winning   

"You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing."

Ashe, Arthur on winners and winning
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"Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision."

Ali, Muhammad on winners and winning
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"Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry."

Ade, George on winners and winning   

"Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."

Edison, Thomas A. on action
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"Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards."

Unknown, Source on children   

"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."

Shakespeare, William on agents
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"Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate."

Kennedy, John F. on fear
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"CREATIVITY is thinking up new things. INNOVATION is doing new things."

Levitt, Theodore on innovation
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Adams, Henry Brooks on teacher
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"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."

Wilde, Oscar on fashion
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"Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on judgment and judges   

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

Bannister, Roger on determination
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