"Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you."

Hubbard, Elbert on friends and friendship
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"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

Johnson, Samuel on achievement
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"Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on understanding
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"Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on authority
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"[Three classes of people]: Those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on humankind
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"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on experience
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"I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on excellence
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"Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat."

Fischer, Martin H. on education
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"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification."

Fischer, Martin H. on knowledge
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"The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune."

Earhart, Amelia on women
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"Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, But, they also get more notoriety when they crash."

Earhart, Amelia on airplane and aviation
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"The effect of having other interests beyond those domestic works well. The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship."

Earhart, Amelia on creation   

"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear."

Earhart, Amelia on courage   

"Adventure is worthwhile."

Earhart, Amelia on adventure
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