"I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it."

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"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is."

Addison, Joseph on hope
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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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"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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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on achievement
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"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."

Grayson, David on adventure
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"Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on adventure
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"The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen."

Lacordaire, Jean Baptiste on affection
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"The surest sign of age is loneliness."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on age and aging
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"Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are."

Ali, Muhammad on age and aging
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"Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give."

Ward, William A. on planning
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"The best work never was and never will be done for money."

Ruskin, John on work
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"Quality is never an accident... It is the result of Intelligent effort... "

Sateesh on
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself."

Conrad, Joseph on youth
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"Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."

Bacon, Francis on history and historians
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"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it's turn."

Borland, Hal on hope
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"I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate."

Hubbard, Elbert on appreciation
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"Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

Hubbard, Elbert on friends and friendship
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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."

Buddha on value
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"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

Augustine, St. on prayer
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"I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself."

Abbott, Jim on competition
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"How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant."

Abbott, John on knowledge
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"You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body."

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem on competition
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"One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team."

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem on work
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"The most important thing about goals is having one."

Abert, Geoffrey F. on goals
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"Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want."

Abert, Geoffrey F. on appreciation
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"When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life."

Abert, Geoffrey F. on self-esteem
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"Let them hate, so long as they fear."

Accius on power
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"I keep reading between the lies."

Ace, Goodman on newspapers
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"The future comes one day at a time."

Acheson, Dean on the future
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"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well."

Ackerman, Diane on life
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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane on love
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"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times."

Acton, Lord on procrastination
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"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice."

Acton, Lord on action
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"Repeticio est mater studiorum. Repetition is the mother of all learning."

Acquinas, Saint Thomas on education
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"Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand."

Acquinas, Saint Thomas on faith
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"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world."

A Course In Miracles on change
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