"The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.."

Allen, Woody on marriage
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"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly."

Allen, Woody on history and historians
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"If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe."

Allen, Woody on risk
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"A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark."

Allen, Woody on relationship
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"My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else."

Allen, Woody on regret
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"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."

Allen, Woody on reason
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"Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime."

Allen, Woody on punishment
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"It shows exactly what you can do if you're a total psychotic."

Allen, Woody on possibilities
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"I am at two with nature."

Allen, Woody on nature
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"If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job."

Allen, Woody on movies
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"I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me."

Allen, Woody on physics
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"Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats."

Allen, Woody on maturity
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"Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored."

Nightingale, Earl on joy
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"We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile."

Nightingale, Earl on joy   

"A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change."

Nightingale, Earl on attitude
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"All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord."

Nightingale, Earl on goals
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"Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do."

Mueller, Robert K. on knowledge
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"A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but an old dog has few associates."

Billings, Josh on friends and friendship
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"Picture yourself in your minds eye as having already achieved this goal. See yourself doing the things you'll be doing when you've reached your goal."

Nightingale, Earl on goals
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"The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts"

Nightingale, Earl on mind   

"For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself, there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become."

Nightingale, Earl on riches   

"Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

Gibran, Kahlil on beauty
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"Every great house is full of haughty servants."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on servants   

"Part of my job is to train people to break down an involved question into a series of simple matters. Then we can all act intelligently"

Deupree, Richard on truth   

"To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment."

Woodberry, George E. on contentment   

"The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it."

Golding, William on writers and writing   

"Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality."

Nightingale, Earl on suggestion   

"The only disadvantage of an honest heart is credulity."

Sidney, Sir Philip on credulity
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"All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits."

Swift, Jonathan on jokes and jokers   

"Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age."

Swift, Jonathan on invention and inventor   

"What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly."

Swift, Jonathan on heaven
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"Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived."

Swift, Jonathan on happiness   

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"Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old."

Swift, Jonathan on age and aging   

"No wise man ever wished to be younger."

Swift, Jonathan on age and aging
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"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Swift, Jonathan on genius
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"She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk."

Swift, Jonathan on dress   

"The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman."

Swift, Jonathan on doctors   

"It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind."

Swift, Jonathan on death
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"Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do."

Caldwell, Sarah on success   

"From error to error, one discovers the entire truth."

Freud, Sigmund on truth
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