"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn."

Hayden, B. R. on sympathy   

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

Tolstoy, Count Leo on change
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"Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on heroes and heroism
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"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

Bierce, Ambrose on anger
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"Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas."

Proverb, American on influence
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"Few love to hear the sins they love to act."

Shakespeare, William on sin
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"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."

Mencken, H. L. on flirting
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"Wit is educated insolence."

Aristotle on wit
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"Listen. Don't explain or justify."

Dyer, William G. on listening
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"A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money."

Glass, Carter on liberals
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"Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on learning
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"One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on hatred
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"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on common sense
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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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"Books had instant replay long before televised sports."

Williams, Bert on books - reading
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"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

Barrie, Sir James M. on happiness
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"While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us."

Franklin, Benjamin on control
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"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled."

Cock, Barnett on committees and meetings
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"When a man is wrapped up in himself he makes a pretty small package."

Ruskin, John on egotism
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"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."

Brodsky, Joseph on books - reading
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"The older I grow the more I listen to people who don't talk much."

Glien, Germain G. on listening
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"We must risk going too far to discover just how far we can go."

Rohn, Jim on risk
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"The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing."

Astor, Lady Nancy on change
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"If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup."

Proverb, Turkish on truth
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"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."

Downs, Hugh on happiness
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"God doesn't give people talents that he doesn't want people to use."

Eagle, Iron on talent
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"Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!"

Flagg, Fannie on criticism
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"If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us."

Schaeffer, Francis on life   

"Good is not good, when better is expected."

Fuller, Thomas on expectation
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"An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten."

Rourke, Constance on humor
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"They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent."

Franklin, Benjamin on vigilance
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"Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a human cesspit of their own making."

Anderton, James on aids   

"If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you."

Wilder, Billy on truth
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"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call Failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."

Pickford, Mary on obstacles
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"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

Frank, Anne on happiness
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"The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured."

Adenauer, Konrad on negotiation
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"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

Einstein, Albert on miracles
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"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare."

Twain, Mark on courage
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"Were it not for hope the heart would break."

Proverb, Scottish on hope
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