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"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them."
Aristotle on Character
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"Pick battles big enough to matter, but small enough to win."
Kozol, Jonathan on Battles
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"If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed."
Howard, Curly on Perseverance
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"If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse."
Proverb on Character
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"With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back."
Proverb, Russian on Lies and Lying
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"Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize."
Kael, Pauline on Arts and Artists
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"It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts."
Madwed, Sidney on Idleness
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"Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside."
Pope, Alexander on Change
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"Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed."
Marx, Karl on Landlords
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"Many have too much, but none enough."
Proverb, Danish on Satisfaction
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"A man falls in love through his eyes, a woman through her ears."
Wyatt, Woodrow on Love
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"When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves."
Ford, Henry on Problems
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"A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus."
Carlyle, Thomas on Focus
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"No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write."
Boileau, Nicholas on Writers and Writing
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"The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top."
Reston, James on Government
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"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
Andretti, Mario on Control
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"One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived."
Bourget, Paul on Thoughts and Thinking
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"The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes."
Kubrick, Stanley on Nations
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"He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies."
Tertullian on Selfishness
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I'm male and made my book on 14th April 2007.

