"Our best evidence of what people truly feel and believe comes less from their words than from their deeds."

Cialdini, Robert on feelings
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"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

Drucker, Peter F. on the future
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"Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it."

Dyer, Wayne on perfection   

"Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds."

Santayana, George on chaos
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"We live in a rainbow of chaos."

Cezanne, Paul on chaos
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"Risk more than others think is safe. Care more than others think is wise. Dream more than others think is practical. Expect more than others think is possible."

Maxim, Cadet on risk
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"We have no problems, only situations. Not all problems have solutions, but all situations have outcomes."

Gray, John Edward on problems
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"The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on adversity
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"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on age and aging
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"They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on education
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"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on emotions
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"Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on eternity
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"What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on goals   

"Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on deception
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"When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression."

Jackson, Jesse on unemployment   

"A person hears only what they understand."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on listening
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"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on lies and lying
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"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on laughter
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"The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on knowledge
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"Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on happiness   

"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on kindness
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"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it."

Ruskin, John on success
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"Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on."

Hobson, Tom on failure
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"Age does not protect you from love but love to some extent protects you from age."

Moreau, Jeanne on age and aging
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"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be."

Carlyle, Thomas on character
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"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

Wilde, Oscar on advice
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"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."

Aristotle on discipline
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"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."

Aristotle on excellence
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"Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved."

Addison, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"Catch a man a fish, and you can sell it to him. Teach a man to fish, and you ruin a wonderful business opportunity."

Marx, Karl on opportunity
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything."

Moliere on upper class   

"A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one."

Moliere on fools and foolishness
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"I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house."

Gabor, Zsa Zsa on divorce
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"It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable."

Moliere on responsibility
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"Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future."

Benedict, Ruth on faith
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"In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo."

Eliot, T. S. on culture
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"Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary."

Alcott, Louisa May on friends and friendship
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