"We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything."

Edison, Thomas A. on knowledge
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"Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth."

Edison, Thomas A. on maturity   

"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around"

Edison, Thomas A. on mind
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"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves."

Edison, Thomas A. on possibilities
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"The best thinking has been done in solitude."

Edison, Thomas A. on solitude
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"What you are will show in what you do."

Edison, Thomas A. on action
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"There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking."

Edison, Thomas A. on thoughts and thinking
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"In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future."

Stendhal, Henri B. on love
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"If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us."

Mead, Shepherd on excellence   

"Faith lives in honest doubt."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on faith
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on knowledge
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"I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on love
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"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on love
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"Who is wise in love, love most, say least."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on love
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"Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on pain
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"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on power
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"Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress."

Smith, Liz on gossip
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"Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."

Smith, Liz on action
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"We may give advice, but not the sense to use it."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on advice
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"We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on desire
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"True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on eloquence
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"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."

Dyer, Wayne on action
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"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."

Dyer, Wayne on slavery
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"Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility."

Dyer, Wayne on possibilities
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"Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible -- it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity."

Angelis, Barbara De on adversity
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"You can't ask for what you want unless you know what it is. A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve. First you have figure out what you want. Second, you have to decide that you deserve it. Third, you have to believe you can get it. And, fourth, you have to have the guts to ask for it."

Angelis, Barbara De on ask
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"You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time."

Lincoln, Abraham on persuasion
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"He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense."

Conrad, Joseph on persuasion
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"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."

Conrad, Joseph on gossip
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"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave."

Hemingway, Ernest on learning   

"Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade."

Bennis, James on learning
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"We need to change so we can remain the same."

Serrity, Dorothy on change
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"What we remember can always be changed, what we forget we are always."

Shelton, Richard on change
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"Change is not only likely, it's inevitable."

Sher, Barbara on change
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"Missing you could turn from pain to pleasure, if I knew you were missing me too."

Unknown on missing you
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"A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new."

Sikes, Rex Steven on change
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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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"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."

Sun Tzu on war
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