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"Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers."

Voltaire on questions
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"No one root is responsible for the existence of a tree."

MacSmiley, Melanie on acceptance
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"There is a French saying: Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love."

Finod De, J. on marriage
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"Marriage should be a duet-when one sings, the other claps."

Murray, Joe on marriage    Share

"Marriage is the sunset of love."

Proverb, French on marriage    Share

"All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage."

Byron, Lord on marriage
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"Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"

Unknown, Source on marriage    Share

"Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering."

Unknown, Source on marriage
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"Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the y is silent."

Clarke, W. A. on marriage
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"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."

Proverb, Ethiopian on work
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"The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god."

Alexander, Scott on money
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"We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us."

Diderot, Denis on flattery
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"Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals."

Mann, Horace on manners
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"Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst."

Martial, Marcus Valerius on faults
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"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."

Dickinson, Emily on truth
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"A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent."

Blake, William on truth    Share

"I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: Therefore choose life. [Deuteronomy 30:19]"

Bible on choice    Share

"Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on happiness
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"The best way to conquer stage fright is to know what you're talking about."

Mescon, Micheal on speakers and speaking
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"The beginning of wisdom is to desire it."

Gabirol, Ibn on wisdom
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"When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you."

Layton, Irving on argument    Share

"Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else."

Ashford, Evelyn on work
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"One person's constant is another person's variable."

Gerhart, Susan on change    Share

"Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it."

Gide, Andre on truth
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"Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things."

Bell, Lawrence D. on things and little things
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"One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks."

Penn, Jack on success
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"The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form."

Randall, Stanely J. on perfection
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"Where there is much light, the shadow is deep."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on contrast
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"Better suffer for the truth than proper in a falsehood."

Proverb, Danish on truth
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"He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself."

Massinger, Philip on self-control
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"The secret of getting things done is to act!"

David, Benjamin O. on action
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"It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday."

Proverb, American on superstition    Share

"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."

Washington, Booker T. on excellence
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"Make yourself indispensable, and you will move up. Act as though you are indispensable, and you will move out."

Ormont, Jules on job
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"Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and all else shall be added unto you. [Mathew]"

Bible on heaven    Share

"The mind ought sometimes to be diverted, that it may return the better to thinking."

Phaedrus on amusement    Share

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or weary of life."

Carson, Rachel on life    Share

"There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job."

Crane, George W. on opportunity
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"Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy you don't need it. If you are sick you shouldn't take it."

Ford, Henry on exercise
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"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."

Disraeli, Benjamin on friends and friendship
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