"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."

Alcott, Amos Bronson on thoughts and thinking
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"Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people."

Rockefeller, John D. on management
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"Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up."

Terence on friends and friendship
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"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him."

Gaulle, Charles De on politics
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"Conformity, humility, acceptance... with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise."

Lindner, Robert on conformity
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"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity."

Nair, Keshavan on courage
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"The penalty for success is to be bored by people who used to snub you."

Astor, Lady Nancy on bores and boredom
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"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her."

Christie, Agatha on age and aging
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"Fortune can take away riches, but not courage."

Seneca on courage
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"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience."

Prescott, W. B. on patience
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"In studying the way, realizing it is hard; once you have realized it, preserving it is hard. When you can preserve it, putting it into practice is hard."

Saying, Zen on zen   

"The simple lack of her is more to me than others presence."

Thomas, Edward on importance
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"The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

Seneca on adversity
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"Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way."

Shinn, Florence Scovel on intuition
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"Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong."

Proverb, German on revenge   

"The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason."

Mannes, Marya on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong."

Terence on appearance   

"HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose"

Blanchard, Ken on aid and assistance   

"Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature."

Bhagavad Gita on action
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"You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face."

Ashford, Daisy on dress   

"A minor operation is one that is done on someone else"

Selzer, Dr. Richard on operation   

"Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you."

Gesser on adversity
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"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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"If a lie is repeated often enough all the dumb jackasses in the world not only get to believe it, they even swear by it."

Franklin, Billy Boy on lies and lying
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"I am a lie who always speaks the truth."

Cocteau, Jean on lies and lying
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"Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it"

Beecher, Lyman on lies and lying
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"Live as if everything you do will eventually be known."

Prather, Hugh on life
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"Punctuality is the virtue of the bored."

Waugh, Evelyn on punctuality
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"As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

Disraeli, Benjamin on facts
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"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."

Disraeli, Benjamin on nations
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"There is no education like adversity."

Disraeli, Benjamin on education
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"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."

Disraeli, Benjamin on education   

"On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends."

Disraeli, Benjamin on education
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"There can be economy only where there is efficiency."

Disraeli, Benjamin on economy and economics
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"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."

Joyce, James on mistakes
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"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on spirituality
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"One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on strategies
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"Vengeance has no foresight."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on vengeance
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"We make our fortunes and we call them fate."

Disraeli, Benjamin on fate
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"What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens."

Disraeli, Benjamin on expectation
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