"Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on skepticism   

"Shallow people believe in luck and in circumstances; Strong people believe in cause and effect."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on luck
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"The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause."

Bergson, Henri L. on past
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"I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."

Bankhead, Tallulah on mistakes
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"Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change."

Shapira, Gina on mistakes   

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything"

Roosevelt, Theodore on mistakes
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"The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one."

Hubbard, Elbert on mistakes
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"I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes."

Davy, Sir Humphrey on mistakes
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"Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately."

Covey, Stephen R. on mistakes
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"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

Confucius on mistakes
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"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."

Loren, Sophia on mistakes
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"If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

Bankhead, Tallulah on mistakes
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

Shaw, George Bernard on mistakes
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"Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes."

Soros, George on mistakes
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"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."

Harris, Sidney J. on regret
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"All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do."

Bennett, Arnold on mistakes
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"The worst thing that one can do is not try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- and never knowing."

Viscott, David on regret
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"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

Stowe, Harriet Beecher on regret
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"There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory."

Proust, Marcel on regret
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"Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden."

Eliot, T. S. on regret
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"People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent."

Dylan, Bob on regret
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"Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets."

Moustakas, Clark on acceptance
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"Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret."

Bierce, Ambrose on anger
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"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Miller, Arthur on regret
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"I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent."

Syrus, Publilius on silence
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"Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on peace
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"Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on patience
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"A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anger
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"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life   

"The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on leadership
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"Good men must not obey the laws too well."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on law and lawyers
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"Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on knowledge
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"The people are to be taken in small doses."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on people
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"What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on power
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"The never-ending task of self improvement."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on self-improvement   

"A strenuous soul hates cheap success."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on success   

"Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"We never touch but at points."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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"We walk alone in the world."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on solitude
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