"Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on perfection   

"He who considers too much will perform little."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on action
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"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not."

Twain, Mark on memory
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"Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment."

Twain, Mark on materialism
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"Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins."

Twain, Mark on art   

"Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it."

Twain, Mark on marriage
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"The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying."

Twain, Mark on manners   

"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."

Twain, Mark on majority
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"Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size."

Twain, Mark on losers and losing
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"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."

Twain, Mark on anger
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"The brave person thinks of themselves last of all."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on courage
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"To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do."

Twain, Mark on law and lawyers   

"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read."

Twain, Mark on law and lawyers   

"A lie can run around the world six times while the truth is still trying to put on its pants."

Twain, Mark on lies and lying
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"I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t."

Twain, Mark on lies and lying
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"One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives."

Twain, Mark on lies and lying
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"It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."

McLaughlin, Mignon on friends and friendship
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"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."

Hsieh, Tehyi on friends and friendship
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"When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog."

Franklin, Miles on friends and friendship
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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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"The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring."

Bradley, Francis H. on admiration
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"The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will."

Haggai, John on god
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"When the sword of rebellion is drawn, the sheath should be thrown away."

Proverb, English on rebellion
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"It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be."

Bardot, Brigitte on faith
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"If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it."

Murphy's Law, (Edward A. Murphy, Jr.) on wrong
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"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy and nothing can stop him."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on happiness   

"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on art   

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on power   

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere."

Reagan, Ronald on management
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"If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen."

Reagan, Ronald on love
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"Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse."

Reagan, Ronald on government
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"Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them."

Reagan, Ronald on government
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"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

Reagan, Ronald on government
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"I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets."

Reagan, Ronald on games   

"If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all."

Reagan, Ronald on experience   

"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."

Reagan, Ronald on morality
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"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

Reagan, Ronald on politics
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"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"

Reagan, Ronald on work
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"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders."

Reagan, Ronald on unemployment
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"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"

Reagan, Ronald on bureaucracy
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