"Intelligence is that faculty of mind, by which order is perceived in a situation previously considered disordered."

Fatmi, Haneef on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on grief
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"Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on candor
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"Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion, you must set yourself on fire first."

Leach, Reggie on enthusiasm
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"He who does not hope to win has already lost."

Olmedo, Jose Joaquin on hope
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"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."

Kaiser, Henry J. on opportunity
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"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Downs, Hugh on happiness
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"Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity."

Marx, Karl on necessity   

"I shall stay the way I am because I do not give a damn."

Parker, Dorothy on apathy
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"Note how good you feel after you have encouraged someone else. No other argument is necessary to suggest that never miss the opportunity to give encouragement."

Adams, George M. on support
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"A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another."

Bourget, Paul on love
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"Every cloud has a silver lining."

Proverb on deception
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"Caution is the parent of safety."

Proverb on caution
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"The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet."

Landers, Ann on speakers and speaking
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"Laws are not invented. They grow out of circumstances."

Azarias on law and lawyers
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"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on books - reading
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"To boldly go where no man has gone before."

TV series, Star Trek on courage   

"There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on destiny   

"This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit."

Shakespeare, William on lust
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"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world."

Hazlitt, William on action
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"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on perseverance
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"To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."

Plutarch on blame
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"The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet."

Rich, Adrienne on feminism
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"Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them."

Mckinnon, Dan on failure   

"We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh."

James, William on laughter
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"But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. "

Hemingway, Ernest on uncategorised
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"A fool despises good counsel, but a wise man takes it to heart."

Confucius on fools and foolishness
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"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on victory   

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

Reagon, Bernice Johnson on challenges
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"Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment."

Whipple, Edwin P. on irony
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"It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."

Greene, Graham on trust
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"Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time."

Schlegel, Friedrich on irony   

"Your problem is to bridge the gap which exists between where you are now and the goal you intend to reach."

Nightingale, Earl on planning
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"The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh."

Byron, Lord on fantasy
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"For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged."

Walker, Alice on freedom
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"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else; and for everything you gain, you lose something else."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on compensation
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"A place for everything, and everything in its place."

Beeton, Isabella Mary on organization
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"Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world."

A Course In Miracles on change
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"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

Flack, Roberta on suffering
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"To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection."

Dyer, Wayne on judgment and judges
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