"The foolish think that nothing is well done, except that which they do themselves."

Unknown, Source on organization
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"By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."

Twain, Mark on adversity
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"Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid."

Twain, Mark on complaints and complaining
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"Amateurs hope, professionals work."

Kanin, Garson on hope
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"When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."

Twain, Mark on ignorance
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"Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."

Twain, Mark on deception
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"All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism."

Unknown, Source on criticism
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"I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."

Hepburn, Katharine on regret
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"The best work never was and never will be done for money."

Ruskin, John on work
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"Teach only love for that is what you are."

A Course In Miracles on love
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"Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is."

Ackerman, Diane on love
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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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"Love means the body, the soul, the life, the entire being. We feel love as we feel the warmth of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us."

Maupassant, Guy de on love
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"Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all. How do we define this lively darting about with words, of hitting them back and forth, this sort of brief smile of ideas which should be conversation?"

Maupassant, Guy de on conversation
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"Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another. -"

Budgell, Eustace on friends and friendship
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"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on cheerfulness
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"Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."

Schweitzer, Albert on kindness
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"A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."

Wilde, Oscar on pessimism
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"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

Croft, Roy on love
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"Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone, you don't."

Wilson, Earl on gossip
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"The truth is more important than the facts."

Wright, Frank Lloyd on truth   

"The distinctive character of a child is to always live in the tangible present."

Ruskin, John on children
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"Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ignorance
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"When you doubt, abstain."

Zoroaster on doubt   

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"Never begin the day until it is finished on paper."

Rohn, Jim on planning
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"One brave deed makes no hero."

Whittier, John Greenleaf on heroes and heroism
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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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"Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on understanding
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"College isn't the place to go for ideas."

Keller, Helen on colleges and universities
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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

Aristotle on self-control
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"I have never developed indigestion from eating my words."

Churchill, Winston on words
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"There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius."

Whitman, Walt on education   

"It takes little talent to see clearly what lies under one's nose, a good deal of it to know in which direction to point that organ."

Auden, W. H. on talent
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"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

Welles, Orson on isolation
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"Curses are like chickens, they always come home."

Proverb on curses
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"Home is any four walls that enclose the right person."

Rowland, Helen on home
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"Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change."

Kempis, Thomas on change
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"Socialism can only arrive by bicycle."

Gallo, Jose Antonio Viera on socializing and socialism   

"In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!"

Welles, Orson on achievement
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"Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love."

Buscaglia, Leo on love
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