"When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink."

Rabelais, Francois on alcohol and alcoholism
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"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."

Keller, Helen on action
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"I always knew I would look back at the times I'd cried and laugh, but I never knew that I'd look back at the times I'd laughed and cry."

Prowdzik, Shaun on laughter
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"I don't respond well to mellow, you know what I mean, I have a tendency to... if I get too mellow, I ripen and then rot."

Allen, Woody on drugs
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"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."

Faulkner, William on writers and writing
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"I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt."

White, Patrick on learning   

"Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it."

Thales of Miletus on thoughts and thinking
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"He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing."

Sallust on hatred
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"Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors."

Cioran, E. M. on justice
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"It is part of the cure to wish to be cured."

Seneca on remedies   

"Bore -- a person who talks when you wish him to listen."

Bierce, Ambrose on bores and boredom
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"Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change."

Proust, Marcel on change
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"Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes."

Proverb, Chinese on power
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"A wish is a desire without an attempt."

Digest, Farmer on wish and wishing   

"Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on patience
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"The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on soul   

"Happiness consists in activity -- it is a running stream, not a stagnant pool."

Mason, John L. on happiness
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"Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity."

Goodman, Paul on joy
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"Why indeed must God be a noun? Why not a verb -- the most active and dynamic of all."

Daly, Mary on god
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"You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."

Gandhi, Indira on tranquility   

"... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it."

Anderson, Greg on joy
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"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on understanding   

"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."

Vonnegut Jr., Kurt on character
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"A church is disaffected when it is persecuted, quiet when it is tolerated, and actively loyal when it is favored and cherished."

Macaulay, Thomas B. on religion   

"Great minds have purposes; others have wishes."

Irving, Washington on purpose
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"I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often."

Tracy, Brian on luck
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"Don't make a baby if you can't be a father."

National Urban League Slogan on fathers
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"I can resist everything except temptation."

Wilde, Oscar on temptation
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"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."

West, Mae on temptation
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"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on."

Sandburg, Carl on babies
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"A baby is born with a need to be loved and never outgrows it."

Clark, Frank A. on babies
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"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

Reagan, Ronald on government
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"Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave"

Hoffenstein, Samuel on hair
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"A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can."

Unknown, Source on science   

"If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one."

West, Jessamyn on parents and parenting   

"Education is the mother of leadership."

Willkie, Wendell L. on leadership
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"Fear is the mother of morality."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on fear
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"Diligence is the mother of good luck."

Franklin, Benjamin on diligence
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"You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."

Frost, Robert on parents and parenting
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"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us -- never cease to instruct -- never cloy."

Colton, Charles Caleb on books - reading
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