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"Everywhere man blames nature
and fate, yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passions,
his mistakes and weaknesses." |
Democritus
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"The whole difference between
construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only
be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it
exists." |
Charles Dickens
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"Nothing in
education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the
form of inert facts." |
Henry Brooks Adams
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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are
ignored." |
Aldous Huxley
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"Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never
see the shadow." |
Helen Keller |
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"The only thing to fear is fear itself." |
Franklin Roosevelt |
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"A pessimist sees the
difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in
every difficulty." |
Winston Churchill |
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"Genius is one percent
inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." |
Thomas Edison |
| "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a
mistake." |
Napoleon Bonaparte
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"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
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Aesop
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"A small error in the beginning is a great one in the end."
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Thomas Aquinas
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"Violence never settles anything."
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Genghis Khan
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| "Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved
at all." |
Saint Augustine |
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"We build too many walls and not enough
bridges."
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Sir Isaac Newton
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"What worries you, masters you."
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John Locke
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"I think; therefore I am."
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René Descartes
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"The bible shows us not how heaven goes, but how to go to
heaven."
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Galileo Galilei
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"Silence is the virtue of fools."
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Sir Francis Bacon
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"Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minutes of
a sermon."
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Mark Twain
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"Two roads diverge in a wood, and I took the one less
traveled by, and that has made all the difference."
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Robert Frost
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"There's two theories
to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works." |
Will Rogers
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"A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol."
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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"Aim at heaven and you will get
earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. "
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C. S. Lewis
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"Before
everything else, getting ready is the secret to success."
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Henry Ford
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"There are two ways
to live your life: One is as though nothing is a miracle -- The other is
though everything is a miracle." |
Albert Einstein
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"Any fool can criticize,
condemn and complain and most fools do." |
Benjamin Franklin
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"Life is
pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that is
troublesome." |
Isaac Asimov
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"Just as iron rusts from
disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect." |
Leonardo da Vinci
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"The secret to getting things
done is to act." |
Dante
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"Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the
former is a Gift from God."
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Blaise Pascal
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| "Leave nothing for
tomorrow which can be done today." |
Abraham Lincoln
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| "Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." |
Aristotle
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| "The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest.
You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit
enough to turn them down." |
George Marian Eliot
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| "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to
have." |
Thomas Jefferson
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| "It may be true that you can't fool all the people all
the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country." |
Will Durant
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| "In general, the art of government consists of taking as
much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another." |
Voltaire
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"What lies beyond us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us." |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Where is there dignity unless there is honesty?" |
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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| "Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is
organized life." |
Immanuel Kant
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| "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for
what he is not, a sense of humor to console him for what he is." |
Francis Bacon
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"Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch
you burn." |
John Wesley
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"Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God." |
Gilbert Chesterton
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"I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well." |
Alexander The Great
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"The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today." |
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." |
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
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"The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what
is untrue." |
Antisthenes
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"To measure the man, measure
his heart." |
Malcolm S. Forbes
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"Hard work spotlights
the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their
noses, and some don't turn up at all." |
Sam Ewing
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"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable
the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of
hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish
yourself if you forget the errand." |
Woodrow Wilson
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"Every man must do two things
alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying." |
Martin Luther
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"We don't see things as they
are, we see them as we are." |
Anais Nin
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"The highest activity a human
being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be
free." |
Baruch Spinoza
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"What you possess in the world
will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what
you are will be yours forever." |
Henry Van Dyke
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"We have two ears and one
mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." |
Epictetus
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