"Never complain and never explain. "

Disraeli, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"Clean your finger before you point at my spots."

Franklin, Benjamin on hypocrisy
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"I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best."

Disraeli, Benjamin on planning   

"Little things affect little minds."

Disraeli, Benjamin on mediocrity   

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"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end."

Disraeli, Benjamin on love
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"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."

Disraeli, Benjamin on ignorance
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"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."

Disraeli, Benjamin on agreement
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"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius."

Disraeli, Benjamin on genius
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

Disraeli, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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"Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others."

Disraeli, Benjamin on frankness
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"If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are."

Saying, Zen on understanding
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"We sense and see what we believe to be.."

Blum, Donald on
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"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."

Kaunda, Kenneth on ambition
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"A person hears only what they understand."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on listening
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

Brodsky, Joseph on books - reading
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"All glory comes from daring to begin."

Ware, Eugene F. on glory
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"Those who know how to think need no teachers."

Gandhi, Mahatma on teacher
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"Language is the dress of thought."

Johnson, Samuel on language
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"Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it."

Butler, Samuel on wisdom   

"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not."

Kennedy, Robert F. on dream
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"You create your opportunities by asking for them."

Hansen, Patty on ask   

"Energy and persistence alter all things."

Franklin, Benjamin on energy
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"Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man."

Battista, Orlando A. on knowledge
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"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."

Allen, James on circumstance
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"Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last."

Lavater, Johann Kaspar on genius   

"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

Beecher, Henry Ward on worth
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."

Plato on wisdom
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"Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people."

Herold, Don on poverty and the poor   

"There's one thing about baldness, it's neat."

Herold, Don on appearance   

"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have."

Herold, Don on intelligence and intellectuals
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"Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment."

Powell, Adam Clayton on freedom
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"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist."

Victoria, Queen on losers and losing   

"Women like silent men. They think they're listening."

Archard, Marcel on women
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"As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men."

Addison, Joseph on women
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"The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong."

Adams, Henry Brooks on women
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"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world."

Woolf, Virginia on women
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"There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not in the forearm."

Sills, Beverly on women
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"A woman is like a teabag -- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is."

Reagan, Nancy on women
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"Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention."

Paglia, Camille on women
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