"What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say."

Wilde, Oscar on fidelity
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"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."

Wilde, Oscar on food and eating
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."

Wilde, Oscar on age and aging
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"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail."

Hare, David on thoughts and thinking
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"The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action."

Wilde, Oscar on illusion
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"Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies."

Wilde, Oscar on infidelity
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"Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building."

Wilde, Oscar on marriage
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"Life is too important to be taken seriously."

Wilde, Oscar on seriousness
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"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

Wilde, Oscar on sin
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"First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."

Carnegie, Dale on preparation
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"You begin by always expecting good things to happen"

Hopkins, Tom on expectation   

"Today, you have 100% of your life left."

Hopkins, Tom on life
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"Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority."

Hopkins, Tom on knowledge   

"Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you."

Hopkins, Tom on suggestion
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"Whoever said money can't buy happiness didn't know where to shop."

Hudnick, Gittel on money
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"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"

Scully, Frank on risk
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"One thought driven home is better than three left on base."

Liter, James on action
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"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."

Rohn, Jim on job
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"Get around people who have something of value to share with you. Their impact will continue to have a significant effect on your life long they have departed."

Rohn, Jim on influence
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"Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea."

Rohn, Jim on ideas
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"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions."

Rohn, Jim on decisions
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"The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy."

Rohn, Jim on joy
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"When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it."

Rohn, Jim on desire
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"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you."

Rohn, Jim on mediocrity
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"We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment."

Rohn, Jim on pain
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"How long should you try? Until."

Rohn, Jim on perseverance
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"If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him."

Horace on fortune   

"You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour."

Rohn, Jim on wages
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"It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude."

Rohn, Jim on attitude
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"If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."

Rohn, Jim on risk
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"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of."

Rohn, Jim on responsibility
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"For every promise, there is price to pay."

Rohn, Jim on price   

"You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."

Rohn, Jim on association
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"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."

Hepburn, Katharine on women
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"Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer."

Hepburn, Katharine on force
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"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."

Hepburn, Katharine on marriage
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"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."

Thoreau, Henry David on enlightenment
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"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

Everett, Douglas on ability
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"The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects."

Jeffrey, Lord on complaints and complaining   

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit."

Lombardi, Vince on habit
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