"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

Wilde, Oscar on food and eating
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"Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves."

Wilde, Oscar on genius
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"A true gentleman is one who is never unintentionally rude."

Wilde, Oscar on gentlemen
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"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young."

Wilde, Oscar on age and aging
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Wilde, Oscar on age and aging
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"Ambition is the last refuge of failure."

Wilde, Oscar on ambition
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Wilde, Oscar on goals
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"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

Wilde, Oscar on gossip
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"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true."

Wilde, Oscar on gossip
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"When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy."

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse."

Unknown, Source on desire
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"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

Unknown, Source on defeat
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"If one wants to get out and stay out of debt he should act his wage."

Unknown, Source on debt
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"Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others."

Unknown, Source on advice
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"Never play leapfrog with a unicorn."

Unknown, Source on advice
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"Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you."

Unknown, Source on advice
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"We sow our thoughts and reap our actions. We sow our actions and reap our habits. We sow our habits and reap our character. We sow our character, and we reap our destiny."

Unknown, Source on destiny
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"Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination."

Unknown, Source on determination
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"Dieters -- People that are thick and tired of it"

Unknown, Source on diets and dieting
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"Difficulties are stepping stones to success."

Unknown, Source on difficulties
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"You can make the dream come true if you wake up and work."

Unknown, Source on dream
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"Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long."

Albrecht, Karl on service
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"If you're not serving the customer, you'd better be serving someone who is."

Albrecht, Karl on customers
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"Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing."

Foreman, Ed on fear
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"Frogs have it easy, they can eat what bugs them"

Unknown, Source on adversity   

"No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"If you're on thin ice, you might as well dance."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

Einstein, Albert on difficulties
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"The eyes those silent tongues of love."

Cervantes, Miguel De on faces
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"Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within."

Cervantes, Miguel De on enemies
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"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."

Simmons, Charles on accuracy
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"True greatness consists in being great in little things."

Simmons, Charles on excellence
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"Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith."

Fry, Christopher on comedy and comedians
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"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done."

Smiles, Samuel on failure   

"We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery."

Smiles, Samuel on failure
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"Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action."

Smiles, Samuel on enthusiasm
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"The very greatest things -- great thoughts, discoveries, inventions -- have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty."

Smiles, Samuel on difficulties
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"It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid."

Einstein, Albert on education
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"Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance."

Einstein, Albert on education
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