"Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid."

Nightingale, Earl on fear
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"Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on poverty and the poor
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"A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor."

Rowland, Helen on bachelor
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"I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics."

Wilde, Oscar on politics   

"The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak."

Bossuet, Jacques BeNigne on weakness
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"After all there is but one race -- humanity."

Moore, George on humankind   

"Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity."

Goodman, Paul on joy
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"The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart."

Redpath, Alan on dedication
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"We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have."

Koenig, Frederick on happiness
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"There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion."

Colton, Charles Caleb on adversity
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"With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation."

George, David Lloyd on change
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"Calamity is man's true touchstone."

Fletcher, Beaumont and on calamity   

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"A man who is at the top is a man who has the habit of getting to the bottom."

Rogers, Joseph E. on humility
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"The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow."

Proverb, Chinese on victory
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"Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."

Twain, Mark on creativity
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"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on philosophers and philosophy
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"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on adversity
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"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart."

Franklin, Benjamin on art
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"The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right."

Notebook on friends and friendship
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"Before we blame we should first see whether we cannot excuse."

Lichtenberg, Georg C. on liberals
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"A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on focus
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"If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it."

Murphy's Law, (Edward A. Murphy, Jr.) on wrong
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"A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it."

Keats, John on proverbs
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"Your mind is what makes everything else work."

Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem on mind
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"If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought."

Newton, Sir Isaac on thoughts and thinking   

"Their is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on art
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"Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes."

Hill, Napoleon on money
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"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old."

Howe, Edgar Watson on laughter
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"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results."

Dixon, Jack on focus
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"Pay attention to your enemies for they are the first to discover your mistakes."

Antisthenes on enemies
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"Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it."

Shakespeare, William on modesty
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"A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip."

Stinnett, Caskie on diplomacy
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"More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery."

Traherne, Thomas on company
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"The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you."

Hubbard, Kin on agreement
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"It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts."

Levant, Oscar on regret
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"All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife."

Boone, Daniel on happiness
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"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

Bryan, William Jennings on destiny
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"Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath."

Swift, Jonathan on understanding   

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"You have to do it by yourself, and you can't do it alone."

Rutte, Martin on work   

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."

Wilde, Oscar on marriage
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