"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

Welles, Orson on isolation
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"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."

Thoreau, Henry David on knowledge
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"Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on praise
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"The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number."

Hutcheson, Francis on action   

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in."

Lincoln, Abraham on charity
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"Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature."

Ballou, Hosea on nature
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"If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?"

Ellerbee, Linda on dress
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"A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity."

Jefferson, Thomas on happiness
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"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness."

Wilde, Oscar on parents and parenting
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"Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life."

Steindl-Rast, David on love
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"Flowers are happy things."

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville) on flowers
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"Silence is the mother of truth."

Disraeli, Benjamin on silence
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"If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."

Hill, Napoleon on excellence
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"Great intellects are skeptical."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on skepticism
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"A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up."

Kempton, Murray on neighbors   

"Giving opens the way for receiving."

Shinn, Florence Scovel on giving   

"For all have not the gift of martyrdom."

Dryden, John on conformity   

"I really lack the words to compliment myself today."

Tomba, Alberto on compliments   

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."

Twain, Mark on dissent
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"Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made."

Berryman, John on animals   

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance."

Bok, Derek on ignorance
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"Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators."

Lincoln, Abraham on ambiguity
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"Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth."

Woolf, Virginia on truth   

"What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on suffering
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"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."

Drucker, Peter F. on management
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"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed."

Fuller, Thomas on life
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"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity."

Kristol, Irving on democracy
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"Art raises its head where creeds relax."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on art
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"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

Paine, Thomas on purpose
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"Knowledge exists to be imparted."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on teacher   

"All limits are self imposed."

Icarus on impossibility
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"We are all born mad. Some remain so."

Beckett, Samuel on insanity
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"Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."

Twain, Mark on certainty
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"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on kindness
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Music causes us to think eloquently."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on music
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"It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived"

Charell, Ralph on cooperation
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"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on food and eating
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"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving."

Carmichael, Amy on love
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