"Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on friends and friendship
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"Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors."

Beethoven, Ludwig Van on humility
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"The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV!"

Simpson, Homer on vision
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"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."

Hugo, Victor on adversity
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"Life is a flower of which love is the honey."

Hugo, Victor on life
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"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us."

Edwards, Flora on giving
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"The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income."

Foreman, George on retirement
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"I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather."

Cuellar, Javier Perez De on retirement   

"There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class."

Woolf, Leonard Sidney on class
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"The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows."

King Jr. Martin Luther on past
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"A child miseducated is a child lost."

Kennedy, John F. on children
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"Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is."

Sartre, Jean-Paul on life
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"Morale is faith in the man at the top."

Johnston, Albert Sidney on leadership
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"The greatest weariness comes from work not done."

Hoffer, Eric on discontent
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"Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power."

Hoffer, Eric on faith
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"The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves."

Hoffer, Eric on favors
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"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar."

Lao-Tzu on comfort   

"Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, Make me feel important. Never forget this message when working with people."

Kay, Mary on praise
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"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day."

Falkland, Lucius C. on learning   

"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government."

Burke, Edmund on government
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"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people."

Welles, Orson on insensitivity   

"Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law."

Goldsmith, Oliver on law and lawyers
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"The highest result of education is tolerance."

Keller, Helen on tolerance
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"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live"

Thompson, Dorothy on fear
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"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

Philo on kindness
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"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."

Proverb, Ethiopian on work
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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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"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

Adams, Henry Brooks on teacher
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"In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell."

Mailer, Norman on violence   

"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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"If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on praise
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"We become moral when we are unhappy."

Proust, Marcel on morality
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"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit."

Shaffer, Robert H. on teacher
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"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear."

King Jr. Martin Luther on love
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"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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"Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish."

Colton, Charles Caleb on silence
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"Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire."

Yeats, William Butler on motivation
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"We are all captives of the picture in our head -- our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists."

Lippmann, Walter on belief
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"All war represents a failure of diplomacy."

Benn, Tony on war
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