"We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors."

Peale, Norman Vincent on success
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"The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world."

Colton, Charles Caleb on wisdom
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"America is a mistake, a giant mistake."

Freud, Sigmund on america
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"We owe respect to the living. To the dead we owe only truth."

Voltaire on respectability   

"Men are respectable only as they respect."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on respectability
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"I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest."

Dangerfield, Rodney on respectability   

"Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep."

Crisp, Quentin on respectability   

"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"

Confucius on respectability
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"Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."

Camus, Albert on respectability
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"Respect is love in plain clothes."

Byrne, Frankie on respectability
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"There is no respect for others without humility in one's self."

Amiel, Henri Frederic on respectability
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"When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder."

Weil, Simone on murder   

"If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are."

Gardner, John W. on respectability
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"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone."

Graham, Billy on respectability   

"A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."

Hardy, Thomas on respectability   

"When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself."

Twain, Mark on respectability
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"In his private heart no man much respects himself."

Twain, Mark on respectability   

"Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners."

Sterne, Laurence on respectability
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"I hate victims who respect their executioners."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on respectability
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"Respect starts with yourself."

Proverb on respectability
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"Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled."

Johnson, Samuel on respectability
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"Respect a man, he will do it the more."

Howell, James on respectability   

"Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue."

Herschel, Sir John on respectability
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"Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?"

Shakespeare, William on murder
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"I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men."

Euripides on murder   

"It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; The tear may be forgotten -- but the hurt stays in the heart."

Higginson, Ella on insensitivity
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"We are all murderers and prostitutes --no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be."

Laing, R. D. on nature   

"It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged."

Huxley, Aldous on murder   

"It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses."

Woolf, Virginia on sensitivity   

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"Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on revenge   

"You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes."

Shaw, George Bernard on power
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"Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist."

Browning, Robert on fiction   

"Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous."

Ehrenreich, Barbara on evolution   

"Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him."

Horace on aid and assistance
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"Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs."

Hitchcock, Alfred on vision   

"My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered."

Hawthorne, Nathaniel on misfortunes   

"Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible."

Lapham, Lewis H. on murder   

"But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter."

Rimbaud, Arthur on sorrow
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"At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies."

Roosevelt, Theodore on evil
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"A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak."

Marino, Michael Garrett on love
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