"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite."

Levenson, Samuel on wisdom   

"Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response."

Barthel, Mildred on happiness
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"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

Levenson, Samuel on time
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"Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try."

Ash, Mary Kay on risk
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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

Johnson, Samuel on hope
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"Aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway."

Ash, Mary Kay on limitation
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"To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are."

Hoffer, Eric on change
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"I laugh because I must not cry. That is all. That is all."

Lincoln, Abraham on tears
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer on genius
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"The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion."

Wilde, Oscar on events
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness."

Wilde, Oscar on dullness
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"The first duty of life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one as yet discovered."

Wilde, Oscar on duty
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"Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on duty
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"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."

Wilde, Oscar on experience
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

Wilde, Oscar on dress
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"Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding."

Wilde, Oscar on extravagance
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"A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."

Wilde, Oscar on faces
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"I can believe anything provided it is incredible."

Wilde, Oscar on faith
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"Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die."

Wilde, Oscar on family
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on forgiveness
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"An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship."

Wilde, Oscar on friends and friendship
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"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."

Wilde, Oscar on excellence
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg."

Barrie, Sir James M. on youth
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"The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh."

Bodett, Tom on laughter
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"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

Churchill, Winston on optimism
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"The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it."

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert on optimism   

"Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets."

Wilde, Oscar on academia
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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on advice
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"For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."

Wilde, Oscar on desperation
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"There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People."

Wilde, Oscar on despotism
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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography."

Wilde, Oscar on disciples
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"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."

Wilde, Oscar on discontent
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