"Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are."

Bristol, Claude M. on belief
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"Once I thought ideas were exceptions not the rule. That is not so. Ideas are so plentiful that they ride by on air. You've only to reach out and snatch one..."

Mckeun, Rod on ideas   

"As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints."

Colton, Charles Caleb on tolerance
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"Lord, let me live until I die."

Rogers, Will on famous last words
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"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on promises
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"To me -- old age is always ten years older than I am."

Buruch, Andre B. on age and aging
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"Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger."

Unknown, Source on goals   

"Aim at heaven, and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth, and you will get neither."

Lewis, C. S. on heaven
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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

Lewis, C. S. on giving
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"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

Lewis, C. S. on grief
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"There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on fear
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"A true man hates no one."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on men
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"Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies."

Austen, Jane on neighbors
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."

Wilde, Oscar on happiness
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"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on criticism
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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

Einstein, Albert on stupidity
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"The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed."

Navratilova, Martina on commitment
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"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."

Lee, Bruce on change
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"Hence to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."

Sun Tzu on persuasion
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"I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down."

Frost, Robert on poetry and poets
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"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."

Frost, Robert on reason
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"We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."

Frost, Robert on secrets
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"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."

Frost, Robert on power
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"The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work."

Frost, Robert on worry
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"I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive."

Beecher, Henry Ward on forgiveness
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"Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing."

Shaw, George Bernard on youth   

"It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own."

West, Jessamyn on mistakes
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."

Frost, Robert on life
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"The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive."

Frost, Robert on lies and lying
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"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."

Frost, Robert on god
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"Let them hate, so long as they fear."

Accius on power
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"Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have."

Alinsky, Saul on power
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"I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed."

Frost, Robert on confusion
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"The best way out of a difficulty is through it."

Frost, Robert on difficulties
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"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

Frost, Robert on diplomacy
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"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on."

Frost, Robert on fights and fighting
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"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."

Frost, Robert on fools and foolishness
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"If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia."

Frost, Robert on america
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"Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy."

Twain, Mark on forgiveness
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