"Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name."

France, Anatole on chance
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"The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them."

Confucius on faults
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"I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known."

Confucius on fame
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

Confucius on failure
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"To go too far is as bad as to fall short."

Confucius on excess
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"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."

France, Anatole on curiosity
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"The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign."

France, Anatole on chance   

"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."

France, Anatole on education
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"It is man that makes truth great, not truth that makes man great."

Confucius on truth
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"To love a thing means wanting it to live."

Confucius on love
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"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."

Confucius on mistakes
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"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."

Confucius on revenge
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"Only men who are not interested in women are interested in women's clothes. Men who like women never notice what they wear."

France, Anatole on fashion
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius on beauty
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"Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous."

Confucius on thoughts and thinking
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"The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."

Confucius on action
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"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions."

Confucius on action
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"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."

Confucius on silence
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"He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior."

Confucius on self-control
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"When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."

Confucius on character
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"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

Twain, Mark on facts
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"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Twain, Mark on education
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"Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."

Twain, Mark on duty
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"Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."

Twain, Mark on dress
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"Adam was the luckiest man; he had no mother-in-law."

Twain, Mark on family
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"He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that."

Twain, Mark on flowers
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"I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

Twain, Mark on fools and foolishness
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"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

Twain, Mark on forgiveness
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"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either."

Twain, Mark on freedom
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"Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others."

Twain, Mark on genius
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"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."

Twain, Mark on desire
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"Never let formal education get in the way of your learning."

Twain, Mark on learning
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."

Fuller, Thomas on learning   

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"Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on learning
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"Your ability to learn depends partly on your ability to relinquish what you've held."

Hall, Milton on learning
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"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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"Learn to pause... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you."

King, Doug on learning
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"Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life."

Kraus, Karl on learning
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"What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are."

Mckay, David O. on learning
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