"To believe a thing is impossible is to make it so."

Proverb, French on belief
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"Your character will be what you yourself choose to make it."

Lubbock, Sir John on character   

"Everything changes but change."

Zangwill, Israel on change
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"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

Russell, Bertrand on time
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"See that each hour's feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also."

Beecher, Henry Ward on feelings
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"We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future."

Douglass, Frederick on past   

"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat."

Fischer, Martin H. on education
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"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."

Einstein, Albert on facts
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"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

Philo on kindness
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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Adams, Henry Brooks on teacher
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"[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on humankind
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"Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything."

Gardner, Herbert on speakers and speaking   

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."

Cohen, Leonard on hope
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"The more we study the more we discover our ignorance."

Shelley, Percy Bysshe on studying
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"Do not think that what your thoughts dwell upon is of no matter. Your thoughts are making you."

Steere, Bishop on thoughts and thinking
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"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."

Flaubert, Gustave on history and historians
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"People with goals succeed because they know where they're going."

Nightingale, Earl on goals
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"You can never learn less, you can only learn more."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on learning
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"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."

Buddha on happiness
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"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."

Rogers, Will on action
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"Nothing is to small to know, and nothing too big to attempt."

Horne, William Van on trying
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"The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless."

Voltaire on punishment
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"The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started."

Trotman, Dawson on procrastination
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"We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are."

Walton, Sam on business   

"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless."

Weinberg, Steven on universe   

"Never, never, never, never give up."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea."

Saunders, Richard on ideas
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"One must really have suffered oneself to help others."

Mother Teresa on suffering
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"No good deed goes unpunished."

Boothe Luce, Clare on pessimism
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"Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming."

Wooden, John on success
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"Such as we are made of, such we be."

Shakespeare, William on destiny
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"Few love to hear the sins they love to act."

Shakespeare, William on sin
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"Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment."

Rumsfeld, Donald on judgment and judges   

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on life
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"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."

Bevan, Aneurin on indecision
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"We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation."

Shinn, Florence Scovel on affirmation
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"What is originality? Undetected plagiarism."

Inge, Dean William R. on plagiarism
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"A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective."

Gide, Andre on goals
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"Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on."

Lewis, Joe E. on maturity
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"You only live once -- but if you work it right, once is enough."

Lewis, Joe E. on life
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