"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."

Wilde, Oscar on women
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"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience."

Bukowski, Charles on friends and friendship
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"Innovation! One cannot be forever innovating. I want to create classics."

Chanel, Coco on innovation   

"There are people who have money and people who are rich."

Chanel, Coco on money
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"How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone."

Chanel, Coco on love
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"There is a time for work and a time for love. That leaves no other time."

Chanel, Coco on time
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"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."

Chanel, Coco on uniqueness
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"Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."

Chekhov, Anton on doctors
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"Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day to day living that wears you out."

Chekhov, Anton on health
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"Man is what he believes."

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"One man with courage makes a majority."

Jackson, Andrew on courage
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"I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it."

Aaron, Hank on failure
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"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on."

Churchill, Winston on humankind
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"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words."

Churchill, Winston on words
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"I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message. "

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"Love shall be our token; love be yours and love be mine."

Rossetti, Christina on love
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"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it."

Churchill, Winston on knowledge
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"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

Churchill, Winston on learning
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

Churchill, Winston on life
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"The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind."

Churchill, Winston on mind
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"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes."

Churchill, Winston on mistakes
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"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Churchill, Winston on opportunity
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"Never, never, never, never give up."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."

Churchill, Winston on planning
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"Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"No crime is so great as daring to excel."

Churchill, Winston on risk
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"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong."

Churchill, Winston on justice
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"Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill."

Churchill, Winston on intentions
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"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right."

Churchill, Winston on honesty
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"Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not."

Seabury, David on courage
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"Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear."

Seabury, David on simplicity   

"The paradox of education is precisely this -- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated."

Baldwin, James on education
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"The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration."

Bloom, Allan on education
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"We must do better or perish as the nation we know today."

Cavazos, Lauro on education   

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."

Adams, John Quincy on courage
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"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."

Alfieri, Vittorio, Conte Di on courage
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"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization."

Churchill, Winston on democracy
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"The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go."

Churchill, Winston on dogs
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