"The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard."

Cleveland, Grover on democracy   

"Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have."

Ziglar, Zig on success   

"Success is dependent upon the glands -- sweat glands."

Ziglar, Zig on success
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"Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves."

Ziglar, Zig on money
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"I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way."

Sandburg, Carl on ideals and idealism
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"Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work."

Sandburg, Carl on slang   

"Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come."

Sandburg, Carl on peace
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"To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell."

Sade, Marquis De on theology
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"Religions are the cradles of despotism."

Sade, Marquis De on religion   

"There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author."

Sade, Marquis De on atheism
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"The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect."

Sade, Marquis De on fame   

"Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates."

Sade, Marquis De on destructiveness
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"One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude."

Sandburg, Carl on creativity
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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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"Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse."

Seneca on economy and economics
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"When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people."

Seneca on speakers and speaking   

"Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs."

Seneca on knowledge   

"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."

Seneca on quotations
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"It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it."

Seneca on insults   

"Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it."

Seneca on hatred
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"No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition."

Seneca on ancestry   

"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."

Seneca on alcohol and alcoholism
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"Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant."

Seneca on fate
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"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."

Machiavelli, Niccolo on fear
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"Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed."

Miller, Henry on force   

"No one asks you to throw Mozart out of the window. Keep Mozart. Cherish him. Keep Moses too, and Buddha and Lao Tzu and Christ. Keep them in your heart. But make room for the others, the coming ones, the ones who are already scratching on the window-panes."

Miller, Henry on innovation
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"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written."

Miller, Henry on chaos
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"Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us."

Miller, Henry on taboos
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"If you don't ask, you don't get."

Gandhi, Mahatma on ask
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"I first learned the concepts of non-violence in my marriage."

Gandhi, Mahatma on marriage
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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Gandhi, Mahatma on humor
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"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on revenge
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"We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on age and aging
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"One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on agreement
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"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on love
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"Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on motivation
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"Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on knowledge
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"Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on argument
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"True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on love
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"Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on passion
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