"Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory."

Ziglar, Zig on happiness
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"The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness."

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich on work   

"Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners."

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich on freedom   

"Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself."

Strabo, Mikhail on responsibility
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"That's what being in the working class is all about -- how to get out of it."

Wran, Neville Kenneth on work
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"Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law."

Kant, Immanuel on life
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"It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull."

Conrad, Joseph on illusion
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"If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; But it you make but little of Christ, He will make but little of you."

Torrey, R. A. on christians and christianity
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"Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America."

King, Florence on christians and christianity
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"If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today."

Gandhi, Mahatma on christians and christianity
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"No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive."

Gandhi, Mahatma on culture
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"Never pray for justice, because you might get some."

Atwood, Margaret on justice   

"If you would judge, understand."

Seneca on judgment and judges
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"If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail."

Seneca on failure
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"If you judge, investigate."

Seneca on judgment and judges
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"Leisure without literature is death and burial alive."

Seneca on literature   

"Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on happiness
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"A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on losers and losing
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"To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on illness   

"Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on sarcasm
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"Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."

Dostoevsky, Fyodor on action
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"The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds."

Cooley, Charles Horton on travel   

"Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world."

Shaw, George Bernard on virtue   

"If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on speakers and speaking   

"This is where you will win the battle -- in the playhouse of your mind."

Maltz, Maxwell on mind
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"People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do."

Howe, Edgar Watson on trying
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"Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time."

Proverb, Chinese on children
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"Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul."

Baudelaire, Charles on rejection
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"Silence is the mother of truth."

Disraeli, Benjamin on silence
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"Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse."

Szasz, Thomas on excuses   

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?"

Bible on art
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"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."

Churchill, Winston on art
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"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

Bacon, Francis on certainty
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"To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail."

Brande, Dorothea on success
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"In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit of life a thousand times a day until the mind and body are exhausted, until that death which is not the"

Vaneigem, Raoul on death   

"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create."

Vaneigem, Raoul on industry
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"Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not."

Vaneigem, Raoul on knowledge   

"The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself."

Vaneigem, Raoul on pleasure   

"We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity."

Vaneigem, Raoul on commonplace   

"The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry."

Vaneigem, Raoul on work