"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."

Plato on wisdom
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"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist."

Victoria, Queen on losers and losing   

"Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ignorance
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"Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art."

O'Malley, Austin on reason   

"Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity."

Ovid on solitude
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"Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new."

Temple, Sir William on books - reading
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"He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on choice
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"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

Maslow, Abraham H. on change
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"Three can keep a secret if two are dead."

Franklin, Benjamin on secrets
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"Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment."

Powell, Adam Clayton on freedom
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"It isn't what you do, but how you do it."

Wooden, John on excellence
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"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments."

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow on focus
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"Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not."

Havel, Vaclav on humor
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"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle on discipline
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"You must look into people, as well as at them."

Chesterfield, Lord on character
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"Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things."

Milne, A. A. on action   

"We who were loved will never unlive that crippling fever."

Rich, Adrienne on love
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"Poetry is the special medium of spiritual crazy wisdom, the form of expression that comes closest to creating a bridge between words and what is wordless."

Nisker, Wes ''Scoop'' on poetry and poets
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"When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity."

Donne, John on farewells   

"You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day."

Kohe, J. Martin on power   

"People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes."

Buren, Abigail Van on fights and fighting
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"Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on learning
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"Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge."

Mann, Horace on ignorance
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"Do you really have to be the ice queen intellectual or the slut whore? Isn't there some way to be both?"

Sarandon, Susan on stereotypes   

"I will tell you the truth as soon as I figure it out."

Birmingham, Wayne on truth
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"Happiness is a sort of action."

Aristotle on happiness
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"We may not always get what we want, but surely we will get what we deserve."

Horton, Doug on merit
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"Anyone can hate. It costs to love."

Williamson, John on hatred
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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

Aristotle on self-control
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"In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void."

Guin, Ursula K. Le on rejection
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"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

Burns, George on family
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"You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made."

Burns, George on honesty   

"Be quick to learn and wise to know."

Burns, George on learning   

"Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life."

Burns, George on life
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"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."

Burns, George on passion
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"Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation."

Kierkegaard, Søren on deliberation
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"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

Kierkegaard, Søren on freedom
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"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."

Kierkegaard, Søren on freedom
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"I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved."

Kierkegaard, Søren on frustration
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"Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude."

Kierkegaard, Søren on irony
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