"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"Mere human beings can't afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by murdering a million helpless people to clear a space for his law-courts. If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises."

Jameson, Storm on fanatics and fanaticism   

"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."

Joyce, James on language   

"Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours."

Baldwin, James on desire
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"Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains"

Cady, Emilie on adversity
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"A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous."

Heard, Jane on adaptability
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"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."

Franklin, Benjamin on action
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"To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail."

Maslow, Abraham H. on adaptability
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"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."

Barrie, Sir James M. on desire
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"Worry gives a small thing a big shadow."

Proverb, Swedish on worry
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"It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world."

Hazlitt, William on faults   

"Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it."

Proverb, Indian on life
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"Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be."

Proverb, German on adaptability
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"One learns to itch where one can scratch."

Bramah, Ernest on adaptability
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"First deserve then desire."

Proverb on desire
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"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically."

Lawrence, D. H. on tragedies   

"Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick."

Leonard, George on competition
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"Their learning is like bread in a besieged town: every man gets a little, but no man gets a full meal."

Johnson, Samuel on learning   

"A friend to everybody and to nobody is the same thing."

Proverb, Spanish on equality   

"People who take risks are the people you'll lose against."

Sculley, John on risk
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"The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for."

Home, Henry on friends and friendship
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"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion."

Lincoln, Abraham on feelings
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"We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are."

Robinson, James H. on thoughts and thinking   

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"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams."

Carter, Jimmy on multiculturalism
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"The true measure of life is not length, but honesty."

Lyly, John on honesty
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"A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance."

France, Anatole on ignorance   

"You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again."

Riley, Pat on losers and losing
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"Many have too much, but none enough."

Proverb, Danish on action
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"A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular."

Stevenson, Adlai E. on society   

"Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance."

La Fontaine, Jean De on appearance
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"The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way."

Alan, Robert on kindness
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"Money isn't everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen."

Davenport, Rita on money   

"Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete."

Vaneigem, Raoul on work
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"She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth."

Franklin, Benjamin on laughter
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"The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves."

Brown, Thomas Edward on vice
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"I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself."

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio on responsibility   

"The next day is never so good as the day before."

Syrus, Publilius on past   

"Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today."

Schuller, Robert H. on obstacles   

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength."

Boom, Corrie Ten on worry
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"American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those who have seen America only in their dreams."

Iyer, Pico on america
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