"Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you -- you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on repression   

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on power   

"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander on art   

"It is better to be unfaithful than faithful without wanting to be."

Bardot, Brigitte on faith
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"It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen."

Bardot, Brigitte on maturity
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"Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people."

Hubbard, Kin on dishonesty
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"Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet."

Hubbard, Kin on forgiveness
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"The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket."

Hubbard, Kin on money   

"Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them."

Hubbard, Kin on sin
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"If some people didn't tell you, you'd never know they'd been away on a vacation."

Hubbard, Kin on vacation
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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

Angelis, Barbara De on love
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"The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use."

Irving, Washington on communication
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"Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity."

Holtz, Lou on adversity
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"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it."

Holtz, Lou on attitude
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"I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary."

Holtz, Lou on potential
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"If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today."

Holtz, Lou on self-improvement
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"When all is said and done, more is said than done."

Holtz, Lou on action
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"If you're bored with life -- you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things -- you don't have enough goals."

Holtz, Lou on bores and boredom   

"To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy."

D'Amato, Cus on opponents   

"The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it."

Holtz, Lou on complaints and complaining
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"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love"

Mother Teresa on love
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"Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."

Mother Teresa on action
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"If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."

Mother Teresa on service
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"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell."

Borman, Frank on capitalism
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"Believe me - the Government will help you anytime it needs you. "

Kocher, Gerhard on government   

"A good health policy is based on three principles. Unfortunately, nobody knows them. "

Kocher, Gerhard on health   

"Do not forget: in medicine, there are more important things than life and death: dollars and cents. "

Kocher, Gerhard on medicine   

"Do not ask what the Government can do for you. Ask why it doesn't."

Kocher, Gerhard on government   

"One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes."

Galsworthy, John on eyes
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"He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away."

Hull, Raymond on approval
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"You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else."

Marden, Orison Swett on joy   

"It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well."

Marden, Orison Swett on joy
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"Appearances are deceptive."

Aesop on appearance
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"We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance."

Aesop on mind
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"Slow and steady wins the race."

Aesop on patience
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"It is easy to be brave when far away from danger."

Aesop on risk
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"Little by little does the trick."

Aesop on things and little things
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"If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world."

Pascal, Blaise on gossip   

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"Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener."

Thomason, Pauline on marriage
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"Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man."

Gibran, Kahlil on money
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