"In the history of mankind, fanaticism has caused more harm than vice."

Kronenberger, Louis on fanatics and fanaticism   

"Don't just count your years, make your years count."

Meyers, Ernest on age and aging
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"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."

Aesop on enemies
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"The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness."

Kazantzakis, Nikos on enlightenment
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"Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life."

Waitley, Denis on responsibility   

"In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed."

Daney, Serge on reality   

"Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!"

Wilson, Mclandburgh on attitude
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"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

Gandhi, Mahatma on power
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"I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail."

Wilson, Woodrow T. on success
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"Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on quotations
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"Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming."

Dowell, Coleman on existence   

"Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive."

Gibbon, Edward on gratitude   

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"Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on conventionality   

"Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit."

Shay, R. E. on luck
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"The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor."

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel on opportunity
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"Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends."

Delille, Jacques on friends and friendship
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"The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and the convenience of man."

Carson, Rachel on nature
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"There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can."

Dyke, Henry Van on life
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"To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text."

James, Henry on motives
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"If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth."

Thirkell, Angela on lies and lying   

"The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion."

Baldwin, Stanley on ideals and idealism
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"Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding."

Locke, John on reverie
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"Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on want
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"Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own."

Gaulle, Charles De on character
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"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De on life
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"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on mind
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"Being part of an agenda beyond ourselves liberates us to complement each other rather than compete with each other."

Stowell, Joseph on passion
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"Just because everything's different doesn't mean anything's changed."

Porter, Irene on change
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"Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."

Marx, Karl on opportunity
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"To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on greatness
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"It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."

Hawking, Stephen on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much."

Keller, Helen on work
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"Religion is the opium of the masses."

Marx, Karl on religion
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"An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on writers and writing   

"We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living."

Brown, Dean Charles R. on work
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"Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?"

Roth, Philip on understanding   

"A hard beginning maketh a good ending."

Heywood, John on beginning
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"To change and change for the better are two different things"

Proverb, German on change
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"Happiness is not in having being; it is in doing."

Watson, Lilian Eichler on happiness   

"You don't need any brains to listen to music."

Pavarotti, Luciano on music
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