"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living."

Kierkegaard, Søren on life
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"Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box."

Proverb, Italian on death
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"The person who lives by hope will die by despair."

Proverb, Italian on despair
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"Speak of the Devil and he appears."

Proverb, Italian on evil
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"He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive."

Proverb, Italian on flattery
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"Hasty climbers have sudden falls."

Proverb, Italian on ambition
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"The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp."

Proverb, Italian on influence
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"The right man comes at the right time."

Proverb, Italian on leadership
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"Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself."

Proverb, Italian on leadership   

"The best way to get praise is to die."

Proverb, Italian on praise   

"If the secret sorrows of everyone could be read on their forehead, how many who now cause envy would suddenly become the objects of pity."

Proverb, Italian on pity
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"He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue."

Proverb, Italian on speakers and speaking   

"After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how she might have been saved."

Proverb, Italian on solutions   

"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."

Mencken, H. L. on faith
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"I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell."

Rostand, Jean on paradise
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"A few great minds are enough to endow humanity with monstrous power, but a few great hearts are not enough to make us worthy of using it."

Rostand, Jean on power   

"Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we."

Rostand, Jean on prejudice
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"Nothing leads the scientist so astray as a premature truth."

Rostand, Jean on science   

"Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued."

Rostand, Jean on beauty   

"The nobility of a human being is strictly independent of that of his convictions."

Rostand, Jean on belief   

"One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it."

Rostand, Jean on theory   

"Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it."

Rostand, Jean on truth   

"To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should."

Rostand, Jean on ideas
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"Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have."

Crockett, Davy on government
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"The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray."

Villiers, George on world
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"Opportunity is missed by most people because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work."

Edison, Thomas A. on opportunity
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"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

Edison, Thomas A. on perseverance
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"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward."

Edison, Thomas A. on failure
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"When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes."

Edison, Thomas A. on perseverance   

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

Edison, Thomas A. on perseverance
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"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

Carver, George Washington on failure
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"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."

Edison, Thomas A. on failure
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10, 000 ways that won't work."

Edison, Thomas A. on failure
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"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Edison, Thomas A. on genius
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"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

Edison, Thomas A. on ability
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"The value of an idea lies in the using of it."

Edison, Thomas A. on ideas
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