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"Sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it."

Andrews, Julie on attitude
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"There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes."

Bennett, William John on attitude
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"It's not the situation. It's your reaction to the situation."

Conklin, Robert on attitude
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"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

Epictetus on attitude
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"Difficulties are things that show a person what they are."

Epictetus on difficulties
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"Only the educated are free."

Epictetus on education
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"Freedom is the right to live as we wish."

Epictetus on freedom
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"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

Epictetus on power
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"The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

Epictetus on truth    Share

"You got to sing like you don't need the money; Love like you'll never get hurt; You got to dance like nobody's watchin'; It's gotta come from the heart if you want it to work."

Clark, Susanna on attitude
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"Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth."

Lawrence, D. H. on decadence
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"The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure."

Lawrence, D. H. on flowers    Share

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."

Lawrence, D. H. on speech
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"Once while St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden, he was asked, What would you do it you were suddenly to learn that you were to die at sunset today? He replied, I would finish hoeing my garden."

Unknown, Source on determination
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"It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look."

Francis of Assisi, St. on cheerfulness
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"Start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible."

Francis of Assisi, St. on dream
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"Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it."

Eliot, George on integrity
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"There is nothing more likely to drive a man mad, than the being unable to get rid of the idea of the distinction between right and wrong, and an obstinate, constitutional preference of the true to the agreeable."

Hazlitt, William on integrity    Share

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"The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on integrity
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"Be good. And if you can't be good, be careful. And if you can't be careful, name it after me."

Unknown, Source on integrity    Share

"There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age."

Bryson, Bill on farming and farmers
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"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on farming and farmers    Share

"Like a gardener I believe what goes down must come up."

Giacomini, Lynwood L. on farming and farmers
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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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"Alas after a certain age, every man is responsible for his own face."

Camus, Albert on faces
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"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more."

Camus, Albert on government
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"The superior doctor prevents sickness; The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness; The inferior doctor treats actual sickness;"

Proverb, Chinese on doctors
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"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience."

Cervantes, Miguel De on proverbs
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"We are all born mad. Some remain so."

Beckett, Samuel on insanity
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"When men make gods, there is no God!"

O'Neill, Eugene on god    Share

"Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe."

Homer on empathy
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"I used to be indecisive; now I'm not sure."

Graffiti on indecision
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"In a mad world, only the mad are sane."

Kurosawa, Akiro on sanity
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"An asylum for the sane would be empty in America."

Shaw, George Bernard on sanity
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"Know thyself."

Socrates on knowledge
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"In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent."

Socrates on life
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"I am not an Athenian, nor a Greek, but a citizen of the world."

Socrates on humankind
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"Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service."

Socrates on greed    Share

"Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior."

Socrates on feminism
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