"Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits."

Stengel, Casey on baseball
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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."

Wilde, Oscar on democracy
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"She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."

Wilde, Oscar on desperation
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"There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People."

Wilde, Oscar on despotism
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"Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things."

Wilde, Oscar on despotism
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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography."

Wilde, Oscar on disciples
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"She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit."

Wilde, Oscar on grace
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"Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

Wilde, Oscar on dress
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"The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence."

Wilde, Oscar on education
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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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"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

Wilde, Oscar on enemies
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"No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style."

Wilde, Oscar on ethics
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"For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."

Wilde, Oscar on death
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"Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets."

Wilde, Oscar on academia
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"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

Philo on kindness
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"Why is it when we talk to God, we're praying, but when God talks to us, we're schizophrenic?"

Tomlin, Lily on prayer
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"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on tolerance
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"Stop trying to perfect your child, but keep trying to perfect your relationship with him."

Henker, Dr. on parents and parenting
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"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

Twain, Mark on action
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"Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is."

Camus, Albert on action
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"There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own."

Gilbert, W. S. on action
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"Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes."

Horton, Doug on action
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"If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger."

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"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."

Shaw, George Bernard on action
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"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity."

Wilde, Oscar on abstinence
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"Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner."

Wilde, Oscar on evangelism
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