"Every time a woman makes herself laugh at her husband's often-told jokes she betrays him. The man who looks at his woman and says What would I do without you? is already destroyed."

Greer, Germaine on marriage
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"Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise."

Sacher-Masoch, Leopold Von on women
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"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."

Rohn, Jim on hope
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"I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain."

Leifer, Carol on exercise
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"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."

Kundera, Milan on passion
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"When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable."

Unknown, Source on age and aging   

"Consider the whale: It never gets into trouble until it comes up and starts spouting."

Unknown, Source on silence   

"We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses."

Adolt, H. V. on business
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"Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you."

Unknown, Source on advice
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"If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on trouble   

"Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there."

Unknown, Source on pride
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"Worry is interest paid on trouble before it falls due."

Inge, Dean William R. on trouble
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"Opportunity's favorite disguise is trouble."

Tyger, Frank on trouble   

"The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected."

Rogers, Will on politics
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"The trouble with parents is that by the time they are experienced, they are unemployed."

Unknown, Source on parents and parenting   

"The trouble with self-made men is that they tend to worship their creator."

Unknown, Source on conflict   

"To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men."

Tozer, A. W. on trials
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"The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination."

Kronenberger, Louis on age and aging   

"The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

Jong, Erica on risk
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"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

Seneca on courage
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"It is not difficult to get away into retirement; and there live upon your own convictions; nor is it difficult to mix with men and follow their convictions; but to enter into the world; and there live firmly and fearlessly according to your own conscience; that is Christian greatness."

Unknown, Source on greatness   

"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."

Drucker, Peter F. on management
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"The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it."

Maurois, Andre on argument
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"'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult."

Thackeray, William M. on faith   

"It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right."

Gladstone, William E. on government
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"Why were the saints, saints? Because they were cheerful when it was difficult to be cheerful, patient when it was difficult to be patient; and because they pushed on when they wanted to stand still, and kept silent when they wanted to talk, and were agreeable when they wanted to be disagreeable. That was all. It was quite simple and always will be."

Unknown, Source on enthusiasm
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"Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods."

Waitley, Denis on courage
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"We wish to be happier than other people; and this is difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are."

Montesquieu, Charles De on happiness
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"I hope that my achievements in life shall be these -- that I will have fought for what was right and fair, that I will have risked for that which mattered, and that I will have given help to those who were in need that I will have left the earth a better place for what I've done and who I've been."

Hoppe, C. on achievement
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"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."

Ziglar, Zig on failure
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"A leader knows what's best to do; a manager knows merely how best to do it."

Adelman, Ken on leadership
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"A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself."

Barker, Joel A. on leadership
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"Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it."

Bennis, Warren on leadership
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"Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing."

Bennis, Warren on leadership
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"Be good and you will be lonely."

Twain, Mark on loneliness
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"May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun."

Unknown, Source on solitude   

"Keep not your roses for my dead, cold brow the way is lonely, let me feel them now."

Smith, Arabella on flowers   

"I am not young enough to know everything."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

Wilde, Oscar on life
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"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."

Wilde, Oscar on loyalty
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