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"The hottest love has the coldest end."

Socrates on love
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"When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."

Hugo, Victor on listening
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"People who take risks are the people you'll lose against."

Sculley, John on risk
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"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

Adams, John on democracy
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"There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns."

Pilpay on risk
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

Jefferson, Thomas on vigilance
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"Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned."

Gregory, Dick on hell    Share

"When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right."

Guinon, Albert on criticism
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"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

Lee, Harper on science
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"If you want to win anything -- a race, your self, your life -- you have to go a little berserk."

Sheehan, George on adversity
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"The revelation of Thought takes men out of servitude into freedom."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on thoughts and thinking    Share

"The strength of a man consists in finding out the way God is going, and going that way."

Beecher, Henry Ward on strength
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"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."

Hepburn, Katharine on rules
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"He who has not a good memory should never take upon himself the trade of lying."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on memory    Share

"I loved learning, it was school I hated. I used to cut school to go learn something."

Jensen, Eric on learning
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"Smile, it's free therapy."

Horton, Doug on smile
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"The aim of education should be to convert the mind into living fountain, and not a reservoir."

Mason, John L. on education
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"The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around."

Caen, Herb on christians and christianity    Share

"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached."

Kafka, Franz on goals    Share

"We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success."

Thoreau, Henry David on success
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"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."

Lombardi, Vince on commitment
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"Concentrate your strengths against your competitor's relative weaknesses."

Henderson, Bruce on business
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"A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar."

Brookner, Anita on charm
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"Happiness is never stopping to think if you are."

Sondreal, Palmer on happiness    Share

"Children are the keys of paradise."

Stoddard, Richard Henry on children    Share

"If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies."

Kraus, Karl on journalism and journalists
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"If you can make a woman laugh you can do anything with her."

Williamson, Nicol on humor
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"Confess you were wrong yesterday; it will show you are wise today."

Proverb on confession
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"Keep out of the suction caused by those who drift backwards."

Piper, E. K. on friends and friendship
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"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."

Luther, Martin on eternity
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"A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit."

Bach, Richard on writers and writing
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"An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate."

De Chateaubriand on originality
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"A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on intelligence and intellectuals    Share

"When one is willing and eager, the Gods join in."

Aeschylus on power
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"The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else s."

Ace, Goodman on psychology
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"A house is a machine for living in."

Corbusier, Le on home    Share

"A right is not what someone gives you, it's what no one can take away from you."

Clark, Ramsey on right and rightness
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"Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to."

Keightley, Alan on choice
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"Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time."

Fleming, Ian on sex
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"Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God."

Buscaglia, Leo on talent
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