"The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive."

Fields, W. C. on world
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"The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are."

Fulghum, Robert on world
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"A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature."

Kempton, Murray on politics
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"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

Smiles, Samuel on hope
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"Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that."

Hazlitt, William on hope
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"Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope."

Levi, Peter on action
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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

Johnson, Samuel on hope
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"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained."

Disney, Walt on entertainment
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"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope."

Ovid on hope
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"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."

Card, Orson Scott on words
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"The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does."

Hill, Napoleon on extra mile
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"Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear."

Aurelius, Marcus on endurance
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"You can have it all. You just can't have it all at one time."

Winfrey, Oprah on possibilities
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."

Wilde, Oscar on dream
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."

Wilde, Oscar on dress
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"Sentimentality--that's what we call the sentiment we don't share."

Greene, Graham on time   

"Fit yourself for the best society, and then, never enter it."

Ruskin, John on status   

"Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on status
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"You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid."

Kafka, Franz on suffering
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"Our true nationality is mankind."

Wells, H.G. on racism
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"There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People."

Wilde, Oscar on despotism
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"Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun."

Amis, Martin on peace
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"Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others."

Bierce, Ambrose on happiness
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"A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself."

Crane, Frank on friends and friendship
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