"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

Fitzgerald, Ella on failure
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"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."

Baldwin, James on abuse
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"Examine what is said, not him who speaks."

Proverb, Arabian on candor
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"A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe."

Bhagavad Gita on conflict
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"Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions."

Colton, Charles Caleb on conflict
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"If we cannot end our differences at least we can make the world safe for diversity."

Kennedy, John F. on conflict
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"You are where you are today because you've chosen to be there."

Browne, Harry on circumstance
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"Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him."

Allen, James on circumstance
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"He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life."

Lauter on forgiveness
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"Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you."

Proverb on forgiveness
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"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions."

Hellman, Lillian on science
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"If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on forgiveness
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"When a subject is highly controversial... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker."

Woolf, Virginia on controversy
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"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."

Russell, Bertrand on controversy
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"How things look on the outside of us depends on how things are on the inside of us."

Cousins, Parks on circumstance
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"To err is human, to forgive is divine."

Pope, Alexander on forgiveness
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"The best way to stop smoking is to carry wet matches."

Unknown, Source on smoking
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"Immature love says: I love you because I need you. Mature love says: I need you because I love you."

Fromm, Erich on love
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"God has a big eraser."

Zeoli, Billy on forgiveness
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"Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much."

Wilde, Oscar on forgiveness
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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

Woolf, Virginia on circumstance
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"It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean."

Robbins, Anthony on circumstance
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"He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance."

Hume, David on circumstance
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"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"

Pope, Alexander on forgiveness
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"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest."

Hazlitt, William on controversy
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"Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past."

Edwards, Tryon on forgiveness
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"There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes."

Whitehorn, Katharine on smoking
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"The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others."

Charron, Pierre on deception
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"Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will."

Cromwell, Oliver on deception
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"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."

Franklin, Benjamin on deception
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"The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on deception
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"You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time."

Lincoln, Abraham on deception
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"Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers."

Vauvenargues, Marquis De on deception
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"They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience."

Conrad, Joseph on betrayal
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"It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend."

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe on forgiveness
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"What is forgiven is usually well remembered."

Dudek, Louis on forgiveness
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"Deceive the rich and powerful if you will, but don't insult them."

Proverb, Japanese on deceit
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"If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."

Coolidge, Calvin on silence
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"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation."

Cicero, Marcus T. on silence
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