"The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on eccentricity
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"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."

Aristotle on beauty
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"There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty."

Addison, Joseph on beauty
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"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."

Abbey, Edward on society
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"One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim."

Adams, Henry Brooks on friends and friendship
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"Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief."

Addison, Joseph on friends and friendship
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"A faithful friend is the medicine of life."

Apocrypha on friends and friendship
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"A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat."

Child, Lydia M. on reform   

"Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on reform   

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"People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor."

Douglas, Norman on reform   

"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."

Carlyle, Thomas on reform   

"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea."

Debord, Guy on plagiarism   

"Nothing is new except arrangement."

Durant, William J. on plagiarism   

"Genius Borrows nobly."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on plagiarism   

"Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won."

Alcott, Louisa May on reform
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"Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger."

Bagehot, Walter on belief   

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"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."

Bach, Richard on belief
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"If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?"

Anthony, Dr. Robert on belief
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"It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it."

Amos, Wally on belief
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"Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized."

Aragon, Louis on religion   

"The true meaning of religion is thus, not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion."

Arnold, Matthew on religion   

"Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are."

Chalmers, Allan K. on crisis   

"Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis."

Collier, Robert on crisis
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"Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis -- once that crisis can be recognized and understood."

Cousins, Norman on crisis
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"I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises -- of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive."

Ionesco, Eugene on crisis   

"When is a crisis reached? When questions arise that can't be answered."

Kapuscinski, Ryszard on crisis
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"When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters -- one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."

Kennedy, John F. on crisis   

"He who hesitates is probably right."

Bogovich on procrastination   

"Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today."

Billings, Josh on procrastination
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"Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him. But the people said nothing. [1 Kings 18:21]"

Bible on procrastination   

"A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times."

Acton, Lord on procrastination
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"Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done."

Burr, Aaron on procrastination
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"Don't wait for someone to take you under their wing. Find a good wing and climb up underneath it."

Bucaro, Frank C. on procrastination
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"There is something in omens."

Ovid on magic
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"From labor health, from health contentment springs."

Beattie, Melody on health   

"Energy is eternal delight."

Blake, William on health   

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"We must not let daylight in upon the magic."

Bagehot, Walter on magic
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"The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object."

Lewes, George Henry on magic   

"True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on contentment   

"Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor."

Franklin, Benjamin on contentment
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