"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on principles
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"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on effort
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"Love is the fulfilling of the Law."

Bible on love
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"All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has."

Beecher, Henry Ward on worth
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"Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river."

Hull, Cordell on insults
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"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

Churchill, Winston on solitude
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"Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't."

Wilson, Earl on gossip
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"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on faith
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"I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone."

Updike, John on government
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"If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike."

Stowe, Harriet Beecher on desire
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"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy."

Thatcher, Margaret on america
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"Work banishes those three great evils: boredom, vice and poverty."

Voltaire on work
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"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

Churchill, Winston on animals
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"The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes."

Disraeli, Benjamin on preparation
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"He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today."

Edwards, Tryon on opinions
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"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that."

Mccosh on books - reading
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"Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

Wilde, Oscar on imagination
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"The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves. "

Shaw, George Bernard on uncategorised
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"Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself."

Haweis, H. R. on god
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"Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."

Angelis, Barbara De on kindness
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"Some people seem to go through life standing at the complaint counter."

Propp Jr., Fred on life
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"What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are. What we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline."

Liddon, Henry Parry on discipline
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on gossip
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"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions."

Einstein, Albert on imagination
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"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

Twain, Mark on knowledge
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"One thought driven home is better than three left on base."

Liter, James on action
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"Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble."

Madden, John on self-praise
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"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

Frost, Robert on happiness
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"Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on present   

"Somebody once said that Washington was a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised
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"The passion between the sexes has appeared in every age to be so nearly the same, that it may always be considered, in algebraic language as a given quantity."

Malthus, Thomas Robert on sex   

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"There are very few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody."

Kennedy, Florynce R. on sex
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"My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex."

Silverstone, Alicia on sex   

"Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets."

Warhol, Andy on sex
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"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others."

Twain, Mark on genius
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"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."

Twain, Mark on death
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"I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it."

Twain, Mark on sarcasm
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"She [Eleanor Roosevelt] got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them."

McGill, Ralph on revenge
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