"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey."

Twain, Mark on evolution
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"Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home."

Dhammapada on growth   

"Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men."

Dhammapada on friends and friendship
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"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."

Bartkowski, Steve on failure
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"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Adams, John on freedom
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"I never forget a face, but in your case I'll make an exception."

Marx, Groucho on faces
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"Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women."

Marx, Groucho on leadership
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"One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife."

Marx, Groucho on marriage
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"There is one way to find out if a man is honest; ask him! If he says yes you know he's crooked."

Marx, Groucho on honesty
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"Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member."

Marx, Groucho on people
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"Whoever named it necking is a poor judge of anatomy."

Marx, Groucho on sex
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"I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book."

Marx, Groucho on vision
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"I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury."

Marx, Groucho on weddings
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"Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does."

Marx, Groucho on writers and writing
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"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."

Marx, Groucho on choice
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"He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on abundance
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"How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on duty
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"He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on joy
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"Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on eternity
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"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. "

Marx, Groucho on
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"Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough."

Marx, Groucho on age and aging
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"Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves."

Barrie, Sir James M. on joy
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"Most of my songs are about Jesus. Most of my songs are about the idea that there is salvation, and that there is a Savior. But I won't mention his name in a song just to get a cheap play."

Townsend, Peter on salvation   

"For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God., not as a result of works, that no one should boast. [Ephesians 2:6, 7]"

Bible on salvation
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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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"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles."

Irving, Washington on kindness
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"An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather."

Irving, Washington on humor
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"Our schools should get five years to get back to where they were in 1963. If they're still bad maybe we should declare educational bankruptcy, give the people their money and let them educate themselves and start their own schools"

Bennett, William John on education
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"A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward."

Bennett, William John on kindness
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"Life is 10 percent what you make it and 90 percent how you take it."

Berlin, Irving on attitude
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"I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on attitude
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"Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on opportunity
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"Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on parents and parenting
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"You can't hire someone to practice for you."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on practice   

"The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today."

Brown Jr., H. Jackson on preparation
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"We will either find a way, or make one."

Hannibal on achievement
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"Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword."

Bible on peace
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"A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."

Dylan, Bob on success
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