"Superior people never make long visits."

Moore, Marianne on guests   

"Flowers are happy things."

Wodehouse, Sir P(elham) G(renville) on flowers
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"It ain't bragging if you can do it."

Dean, Dizzy on pride
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"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."

Peale, Norman Vincent on achievement
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"Great intellects are skeptical."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on skepticism
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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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"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."

Gibran, Kahlil on suffering
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"All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone."

La Bruyere, Jean De on happiness
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"What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse."

Miller, Henry on sex   

"The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get."

Alexander, Scott on free enterprise   

"Expect victory and you make victory."

Bradley, Preston on expectation   

"He is not the same, nor is he another."

Buddha on spirituality
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"God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk."

Eckhart, Meister on god
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"We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true."

Waitley, Denis on dream
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"When people are bored it is primarily with themselves."

Hoffer, Eric on bores and boredom
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"Any time you try to win everything, you must be willing to lose everything."

Csonka, Larry on winners and winning
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"If you want a high performance woman, I can go from zero to bitch in less than 2.1 seconds."

Kraus, Krystal Ann on performance   

"Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition."

Proverb, American on praise   

"Failure to prepare is preparing to fail."

Wooden, John on planning
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"Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own."

Disraeli, Benjamin on liberals   

"There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it."

Buddha on evil
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"We are what we think. All that we are arises With our thoughts. With our thoughts, We make our world."

Buddha on thoughts and thinking
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"Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing."

Confucius on worry
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"The illiterate of the future are not those that cannot read or write. They are those that can not learn, unlearn, relearn."

Toffler, Alvin on illiteracy
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"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do."

Hendrix, Jimi on death
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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books."

Proverb, Chinese on wisdom
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"The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself."

Messier, Mark on pressure   

"I would live to study, and not study to live."

Bacon, Francis on studying   

"Nothing happens unless first a dream."

Sandburg, Carl on dream
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"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government."

Jefferson, Thomas on government
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"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."

Paine, Thomas on new beginning
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"A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark."

Dante Alighieri on things and little things
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"Perfection is our goal, excellence will be tolerated."

Yahl, J. on perfection
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"Most smiles are started by another smile."

Clark, Frank A. on smile
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"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations."

Saki on nations   

"We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers."

Washington, Booker T. on prejudice   

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

Ford, Henry on failure
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"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."

Cocteau, Jean on mystery
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"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."

Beecher, Henry Ward on books - reading
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"The future of this republic is in the hands of the American voter."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on voting