"A lie can run around the world before the truth can get its boots on."

Watt, James on Lies and Lying
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"Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts."

Stevens, Abel on Courtesy
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"The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!"

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on Decisions
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"If I remember right there are five excuses for drinking: the visit of a guest, present thirst, future thirst, the goodness of the wine, and any other excuse you choose!"

Sermond, Pete on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife."

Goldsmith, Oliver on Taste
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"Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking."

Barthes, Roland on Alcohol and Alcoholism
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"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy."

Dyer, Wayne on Blame
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"All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible."

Faulkner, William on Failure
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"Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on Friends and Friendship
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"Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive."

James, Clive on Worry
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"And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope."

Frost, Robert on Failure
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"I am never upset for the reason I think."

A Course In Miracles on Reason
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius on Failure
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"No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys."

Horton, Doug on Control
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"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

Lincoln, Abraham on Dogs
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"Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering."

Landor, Walter Savage on Absence
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"The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today."

Brown, Les on Possibilities
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"Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on Love
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"When all is said and done, more is said than done."

Holtz, Lou on Action
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"Never let the fear of striking out, keep you from playing the game."

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"Dost thou love life? Then waste not time; for time is the stuff that life is made of. "

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN on
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"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."

Alcott, Louisa May on Vision
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"Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?"

Ellis, Havelock on Dreams
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"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"

Reagan, Ronald on Work, Hard
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"Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we're in."

Reagan, Ronald on Status Quo
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"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."

Reagan, Ronald on Recession
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"The difference between earning a good living & living a good life, is enjoying what you do."

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"Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave."

Proverb, Yiddish on People
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"He that lives upon hope will die fasting."

Franklin, Benjamin on Hope
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"Hope is a waking dream."

Aristotle on Hope
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"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."

Sandburg, Carl on Action
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"In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."

Austen, Jane on Affection
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"One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be."

Unknown, Source on Fathers
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"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."

Kierkegaard, Soren on Life and Living
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"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."

Hull, Raymond on Approval
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"Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Love
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"My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there."

Shaw, Henry Wheeler on Patience
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"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."

Aristotle on Character
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"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

Gibran, Kahlil on Nature
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"Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man."

Gibran, Kahlil on Money
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