Aboriginal proverb
We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn to grow, to love … and then we return home.
Diane Ackerman
I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Lord Acton
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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To be able to look back upon one’s past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
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Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Paul Neal ‘Red’ Adair
American oil well firefighter If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.
Don Adams
Max: Oh, yes, I’m a big music lover. Would you believe that I once listened to three weeks of Beethoven? Would you believe it? Three weeks! Villain: I find that quite hard to believe. Max: Would you believe (thinks a while) Two weeks of Bach? Villain: I don’t think so. Max: Would you believe… one hour of Looney Tunes? – Quote from the TV show ‘Get Smart’, starring Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86.
Douglas Adams
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.
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I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
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The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.
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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
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The ships hung in the sky, in much the same way that bricks don’t.
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There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling.
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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‘A towel, [The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy] says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-boggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough’.
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‘For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons’.
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I’d far rather be happy than right any day.
John Quincy Adams
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
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I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Samuel Adams
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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It does not take a majority to prevail… but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Jane Addams
True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.
Morticia Addams (from the TV show, ‘The Addams Family’)
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
You can’t write a script in your mind and then force yourself to follow it. You have to let yourself be.
Aeschylus
Everyone’s quick to blame the alien.
African proverb
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
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When two elephants fight, only the grass is harmed.
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A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
Laura Agostino
Just because I choose not to walk in the direction of the masses doesn’t mean I am fearful, on the contrary.
Idil Ahmed
You know great things are coming when everything seems to be going wrong. Old energy is clearing out for new energy to enter.
Sara Ajna
The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light.
Mitch Album
Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.
Alan Alda
The meaning of life is life.
Sholom Aleichem
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Alexander Alekhine (considered to be one of the world’s greatest chess champions)
For success I consider three factors are necessary: firstly, an awareness of my own strengths and weaknesses; secondly, an accurate understanding of my opponent’s strengths and weaknesses; thirdly, a higher aim than momentary satisfaction.
Alexander the Great
I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
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Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
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I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.
Dean Francis Alfar
One of the best ways to recharge is by simply being in the presence of art. No thoughts, no critiques. Just full-on absorption mode.
Muhammad Ali
Looking at life from a different perspective makes you realize that it’s not the deer that is crossing the road, rather it’s the road that is crossing the forest.
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I don’t trust someone who is nice to me but rude to the waiter, because they would treat me the same way if I were in that position.
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I hated every minute of training, but said, “don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion”.’
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Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
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I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, to counteract my image in the ring. America has to have its white images, no matter where it gets them. Jesus, Wonder Woman, Tarzan and Rocky.
Amani Al-Khatahtbeh
If I’m being rejected from one thing, it’s really just the path redirecting me elsewhere to where I’m supposed to be.
Woody Allen
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in 20 minutes. It involves Russia.
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Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
Isabel Allende
Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
Salvador Allende
We already had success in creating a democratic, national government that is revolutionary and popular. That is how socialism begins, not with decrees.
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We start from different ideological positions. For you to be a Communist or a Socialist is to be totalitarian; for me no.… On the contrary, I think Socialism frees man.
James Altucher
Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.
B.R. Ambedkar
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man’s life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
Saint Ambrose
When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.
Oscar Ameringer
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
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‘Destiny has two ways of crushing us – by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them’.
Shawn Amos
The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute.
Anaxagoras
Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.
Gillian Anderson
I hope everyone that is reading this is having a really good day. And if you are not, just know that in every new minute that passes you have an opportunity to change that.
Marian Anderson
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
Pamela Anderson
Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals – and the lesson is not a flattering one.
Maya Angelou
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.’
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We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.
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When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
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I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.
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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
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We need much less than we think we need.
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Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.
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I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you’. Thre is an African saying, which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
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If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?
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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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For me writers block is less an issue than “going tharn”, a phrase from the old Watership Down novel to explain what happens to a rabbit when it stops in the middle of the road transfixed by the onrushing headlights of a car.
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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.
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Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.
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I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Susan B. Anthony
You would better educate ten women into the practice of liberal principles than to organize a thousand on a platform of intolerance and bigotry.
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Independence is happiness
Anzac Day
Lest we forget.
Thomas Aquinas
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
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Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Pietro Aretino
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.
Hannah Arendt
Refugees driven from country to country represent the vanguard of their peoples.
Philip Arnold
If you let go of negativity and fear of change you will realize that all is always well in the universe.
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You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of your own false thoughts.
Aristotle
Anyone who doesn’t need company is either greater than a man, and is a God, or lesser than a man, and is a beast.
— Aristotle, as quoted by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Anyone can become angry – that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way, this is not easy.
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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
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The secret to humor is surprise.
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
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Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Memory is the scribe of the soul.
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Louis Armstrong
If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.
Neil Armstrong
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
Isaac Asimov
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
St Francis of Assissi
While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.
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Remember, when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received, only what you have given: a heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.
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If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.
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Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Fred Astaire
The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
Atticus
I hope to arrive to my death late, in love and a little drunk.
Clement Attlee
Charity is a cold, grey, loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at whim.
Margaret Atwood
If I waited for perfection, I would never write a word.
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I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one ‘race’ – the human race – and that we are all members of it.
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We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.
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Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
W.H. Auden
I and the public know
What all schoolchildren learn,
Those to whom evil is done
Do evil in return
Marcus Aurelius
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
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You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
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Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
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When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
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Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
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Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
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‘Life is a stranger’s sojourn, a night at an inn’
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Everything we hear is an opinion not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective not the truth.
Jane Austen
One man’s style must not be the rule of another’s.
Kathy Austin
Managers light a fire under people; leaders light a fire in people.
Ayurvedic proverb
When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use. When diet is correct, medicine is of no need.
Sai Baba
‘A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.’
Richard Bach
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
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The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.
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Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull’s life is so short, and with those gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.
– Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
Lord Robert Baden-Powell
Be prepared.
Gamaliel Bailey
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
James Baldwin
Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
Iain Banks
Empathize with stupidity and you’re halfway to thinking like an idiot.
Amiri Baraka
Art is whatever makes you proud to be human.
Carl Bard
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
L.L. Barkat
Writing starts with living.
J.M. Barrie
‘Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one within the other, that come from the puzzling East, however many you discover there is always one more … ‘ from Peter Pan.
Carlos Barrios, Mayan elder and Ajq’ij of the Eagle Clan
‘The greatest wisdom is in simplicity. Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness. It’s not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It’s encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning. Find your heart, and you will find your way’.
John Bartlett
Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.
Bernard Baruch
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
Matsuo Basho
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
I’m not a real person. I’m a legend.
Charles Baudelaire
One should always be drunk. That’s all that matters…But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.
Pierre Beaumarchais, playwright (1732-1799)
Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.
Henry Ward Beecher
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
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It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Max Beerbohm
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
Ludwig van Beethoven
To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.
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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Harry Belafonte
You can cage the singer, but not the song.
Alexander Graham Bell
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
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When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.
John Belushi
‘Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!’
Tony Benn
The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin’s Russia: it’s like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.
Jeremy Bentham
The rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
John Bercow
Fairness is not about statistical equality.
Milton Berle
Laughter is an instant vacation.
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‘If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door’.
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He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.
Lawrence Peter ‘Yogi’ Berra (American former Major League Baseball catcher, outfielder and manager)
You should always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise, they won’t come to yours.
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You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.
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‘Nobody goes there any more. It’s too crowded’.
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‘It’s like deja vu all over again’.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
Chuck Berry
Don’t let the same dog bite you twice.
John Berryman
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made. – from his poem Bats have no bankers and they do not drink
Valerie Bertinelli
There’s going to be stress in life, but it’s your choice whether to let it affect you or not.
Jello Biafra
I’ve never been a big fan of subtle art. I like art that gets deep into my head and starts my brain spinning with new ideas and inspiration and my whole body is full of energy.
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If you love god, burn a church.
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If I go without rock for too long, I feel depressed.
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If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.
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Don’t hate the media, become the media.
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For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.
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Punk was originally about creating new, important, energetic music that would hopefully threaten the status quo and the stupidity of the 1970s.
Bible
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy. – Proverbs 31:8-9 (NIV)
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Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.
Ambrose Bierce
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ronald Biggs
There’s a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy’s brains out. I’m a crook.
Steve Biko
If one is free at heart, no man-made chains can bind one to servitude, but if one’s mind is so manipulated and controlled by the oppressor, then there will be nothing the oppressed can do to scare his powerful masters.
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‘The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.’
Simone Biles
I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all.
Laurence Binyon
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. (From the poem For the Fallen, written in September 1914).
John Birmingham
For me writers block is less an issue than “going tharn”, a phrase from the old Watership Down novel to explain what happens to a rabbit when it stops in the middle of the road transfixed by the onrushing headlights of a car.
German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
‘One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans’. (Said by Bismarck in 1888).
Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen
‘I call it, “feeding the chooks”.’
(Sir Joh describing news conferences)
Black Elk
Sioux Holy Man, Second-cousin of Crazy Horse, 1863 – 1950. ‘I could see that the white man did not care for each other the way our people did … They would take everything from each other if they could … some … had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all … This could not be better than the old ways of my people’.
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As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
Black Sabbath
‘I’ve crossed the ocean, turned every bend I found the crossing near a golden rainbow’s end I’ve been through magic and through life’s reality I’ve lived a thousand years and it never bothered me‘ – from the Black Sabbath song ‘Supernaut’
Gary Ryan Blair
Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.
William Blake
Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
Lawrence Block
Dreams are like stars … you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny.
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If you cannot stand a spoon upright in the cup, then the coffee is too weak.
Luka Bloom
‘Skin raw like a sushi dinner And an appetite That would eat the hind leg of the lamb of God Even though you know I wouldn’t dream of doing such a thing’ – from Acoustic Motorbike.
Blur
Mr. robinson and his quango Drinks with the general and the county wives Yes the family business is doing all right They are doing tangos down in the quangos He makes them tick and he makes them tock And if he doesn’t like you he’ll put you in the dock –
Blur, from the song, Mr Robinson’s quango
Bodhidharma
The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons. Greed, anger, and delusion.
Wayne Boggs
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that’s why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
Marc Bolan
‘Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can’t assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution’. ‘I feel there is a curse on rock stars’. ‘I don’t like telephones’.
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The prospect of being immortal doesn’t excite me, but the prospect of being a materialistic idol for four years does appeal.
Daniel J. Boorstin
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
Jorge Luis Borges
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
Hal Borland
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
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Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
Sergei Bondarchuk
‘all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing’ – from Sergei Bondarchuk’s Soviet film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s book ‘War and Peace’, in which the narrator declares ‘All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing’, although since the original is in Russian various translations to English are possible. The quote has also incorrectly been attributed to Edmund Burke (as noted on Wikiquote)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.
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We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.
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Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak, Not to act is to act.
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We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Bono
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
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‘Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.’
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We can eradicate extreme poverty, because the power of the people is so much greater than the people in power.
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To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
David Bowie
I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human.
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I re-invented my image so many times that I’m in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
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I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.
Ray Bradbury
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
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You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
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Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do. Real brains don’t do that.
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You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Andew Bradford
Oh Lord, forgive the misprints! (Bradford’s last words)
Sir Richard Branson
Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.
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If you want to be a millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.
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‘To me business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials’.
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My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.’
Bertolt Brecht
What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.
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The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can’t do it all by themselves.
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Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.
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Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.
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To live means to finesse the processes to which one is subjugated.
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One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.
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From the cradle to the coffin, underwear comes first.
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‘What they could use around here is a good war. What else can you expect with peace running wild all over the place? You know what the trouble with peace is? No organization.’
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Charles I
While I breath, I hope.
Charles Bronson
I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited.
Charlotte Brontë
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.
Emily Bronte
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
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Having leveled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
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A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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Having leveled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading: It vexes me to choose another guide.
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
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Terror made me cruel.
Brené Brown
Integrity is choosing courage over comfort. It’s choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy. It’s choosing to practice your values rather than simply professing them.
Dan Brown
To permit ignorance is to empower it.
(From Origin)
Dee Brown
Treat all men alike…. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. Let me be a free man…free to travel… free to stop…free to work…free to choose my own teachers…free to follow the religion of my Fathers…free to think and talk and act for myself.
From ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’
H. Jackson Brown Jr
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.
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Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
Leon Brown
Do not judge others by your standards, for everyone is making their way home, in the way they know best.
Rita Mae Brown
Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Giordano Bruno
What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
James Buchanan
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
Buddhist sayings
To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.
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Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
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Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.
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The mind is everything. What you think, you become.
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A man who conquers himself is greater than one who conquers a thousand in battle.
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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
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Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
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These three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.
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You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you’re too busy; then you should sit for an hour.
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Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are. It solely relies on what you think.
Jimmy Buffett
‘Breathe in, breathe out, move on’.
Charles Bukowski
Those who escape hell, however, never talk about it, and nothing much bothers them after that.
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
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There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
John Bunyan
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Anthony Burgess
It’s always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you’re going.
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Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.
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One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
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The downtrodden are the great creators of slang.
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Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don’t know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
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Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
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Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
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It’s always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you’re going.
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Every dogma has its day.
Edmunde Burke
‘Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little’.
Carol Burnett
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Language is a virus from outer space.
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Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.
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Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs.
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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager’.
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In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people, they have no lawyers.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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There’s something wrong with that boy. He frowns for no reason.
(in conversation with his secretary after a visit from Kurt Cobain)
John Burroughs
I still find each day too short for the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame someone else.
William S. Burroughs
Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.
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The world wasn’t a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.
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The face of evil is always the face of total need.
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The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager’.
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Sometimes paranoia’s just having all the facts.
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In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
Leo Buscaglia
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
George W. Bush
‘There’s an old saying in Tennessee – I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee – that says, fool me once, shame on – shame on you. Fool me – you can’t get fooled again’.
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‘This thaw … took a while to thaw, it’s going to take a while to unthaw’.
Major General Smedley D. Butler
War is a racket. It always has been… A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can’t end it by disarmament conferences. You can’t eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can’t wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.
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There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights.
Lord Byron
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
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The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Caligula
‘adhuc vivo!’ – Translates as ‘I still live!‘. Reportedly his final words as he was being stabbed.
Calvin & Hobbes
We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.
Hélder Câmara
‘If there is some corner of the world which has remained peaceful, but with a peace based on injustices the peace of a swamp with rotten matter fermenting in its depths – we may be sure that that peace is false. Violence attracts violence. Let us repeat fearlessly and ceaselessly: injustices bring revolt, either from the oppressed or from the young, determined to fight for a more just and more human world’.
Ann Campanella
One of the benefits of being bi-cultural is simply awareness that how you live is not the only way.
Albert Camus
In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
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I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
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I know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Orson Scott Card
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.
Thomas Carlyle
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
Lewis Carroll
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
Jimmy Carter
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we’ve discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We’ve learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.
Pable Casals
The love of one’s country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
Johnny Cash
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Fidel Castro
They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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There is often talk of human rights, but it is also necessary to talk of the rights of humanity. Why should some people walk barefoot, so that others can travel in luxurious cars? Why should some live for thirty-five years, so that others can live for seventy years? Why should some be miserably poor, so that others can be hugely rich? I speak on behalf of the children in the world who do not have a piece of bread. I speak on the behalf of the sick who have no medicine, of those whose rights to life and human dignity have been denied.
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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To be an internationalist is to pay our own debt to humanity. Whoever is incapable of fighting for others will never be sufficiently capable of fighting for himself or herself.
Nick Cave
Certainly being proficient in an instrument does have its problems. Because the better you get, the more you just start sounding like an ordinary guitarist. There are certainly guitarists that transcend that and do really find their sound and all that sort of stuff.
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I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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‘I’m a believer. I don’t go to church. I don’t belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn’t write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief’.
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‘When I explained to someone that what I wanted to write about was the memory of things that I thought were lost for me, I was told that the Portuguese word for this feeling was “saudade”. It’s not nostalgia but something sadder’.
Chanakya
The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.
Raymond Chandler
The tragedy of life, Howard, is not that the beautiful die young, but that they grow old and mean. (from The Long Goodbye)
Charlie Chaplin
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
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We think too much and feel too little.
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You need power, only when you want to do something harmful, otherwise love is enough to get everything done.
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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
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What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
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Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.
Dave Chappelle
The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself especially when everybody is watching.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Anton Chekhov
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.
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Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
G.K. Chesterton
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
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New roads; new ruts.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
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The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying My mother, drunk or sober.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
Chief Red Eagle
Angry people want you to see how powerful they are… loving people want you to see how powerful You are.
Julia Child
A party without cake is just a meeting.
Chinese Proverb
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion.
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‘The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now’.
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When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.
Pema Chodron
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.
Noam Chomsky
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
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I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.
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Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
Deepak Chopra
Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that’s karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there’s karma all over again.
Winston Churchill
A free press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that free men prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny. Where men have the habit of liberty, the Press will continue to be the vigilant guardian of the rights of the ordinary citizen.
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This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, it is just the end of the beginning.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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Be kind, but be fierce.
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
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We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
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Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
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You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
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You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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One of the infamous exchanges between Winston Churchill and Lady Astor: Lady Nancy Astor: ‘Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink‘. Churchill: ‘Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it‘.
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‘I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly’. – Winston Churchill (to Lady Astor who accused him of being drunk at a public function).
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‘Many a man stumbles across the truth, then picks himself up and hurries on as though nothing had happened’.
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
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The safety of the people shall be the highest law.
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If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
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The more laws, the less justice.
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
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What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.
Eric Clapton
One of the most beneficial things I’ve ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut.
Frank A. Clark
‘We find comfort among those who agree with us — growth among those who don’t’.
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‘Gossip needn’t be false to be evil – there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around’.
Arthur C. Clarke
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets.
Claudius
No one is free who does not lord over himself.
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To do no evil is good, to intend none better.
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Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
Eldridge Cleaver
The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
Bill Clinton
Just because we cannot do everything for everyone, does not mean we should do nothing for anyone.
DeWitt Clinton
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration.
Kurt Cobain
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
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‘Punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster’s terms, ‘nirvana’ means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that’s pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock’.
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‘They’re claiming that [the grunge bands] finally put Seattle on the map, but, like, what map? …I mean, we had Jimi Hendrix. Heck, what more do we want?’
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Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
Tom Cochrane
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That’s really where failure comes.
Paulo Coelho
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
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Be present. Make love. Make tea. Avoid small talk. Embrace conversation. Buy a plant, water it. Make your bed. Make someone else’s bed. Have a smart mouth, and quick wit. Run. Make art. Create. Swim in the ocean. Swim in the rain. Take chances. Ask questions. Make mistakes. Learn. Know your worth. Love fiercely. Forgive quickly. Let go of what doesn’t make you happy. Grow.
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The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.
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I prefer to be crazy and happy rather than normal and bitter.
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What is success? It’s being able to go to bed at night with your soul at peace.
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One day, you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. DO IT NOW.
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Don’t say ‘maybe’ if you want to say ‘no’.
Leonard Cohen
I don’t really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I’d like to come back as my daughter’s dog.
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There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
Bainbridge Colby
An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
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Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions form our true honor.
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Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
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Swans sing before they die – ’twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.
Robbie Coltrane
The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it’s really all about them.
Confucius
Silence is a true friend who never betrays.
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Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
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If you hate a person, then you’re defeated by them.
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No matter how busy you think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
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He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
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It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
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Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
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‘The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell’.
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The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
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Never give a sword to a man who can’t dance.
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‘To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it’.
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‘Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?’
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‘The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.’
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‘When anger rises, think of the consequences’.
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When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
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‘Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire’.
Lauren Conrad
I think a good friend, to me, is all about trust and loyalty. You don’t ever want to second-guess whether you can tell your friend something.
Captain James Cook
Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.
Calvin Coolidge
‘Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas’.
Coolio
Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.
Sheldon Cooper (Big Bang Theory)
Sheldon Cooper: 73 is the 21st prime number. Its mirror, 37, is the 12th, and its mirror, 21, is the product of multiplying – hang on to your hats – seven and three. Heh? Heh? Did I lie?
Leonard Hofstadter: We get it. 73 is the Chuck Norris of numbers.
Sheldon Cooper: Chuck Norris wishes. In binary, 73 is a palindrome: 1001001, which backwards is 1001001. Exactly the same. All Chuck Norris backwards gets you is “sirron kcuhc.”
Rachel Corrie
Maybe if people stopped thinking of themselves, and started thinking of the other sides of things, people wouldn’t hurt each other.
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We should be inspired by people… who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.
Stephen Covey
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
Laverne Cox
I would never be so arrogant to think that someone should model their life after me. But the idea of possibility . . . the idea that I get to live my dreams out in public, hopefully will show to other folks that it’s possible. So I prefer the term ‘possibility model’ to ‘role model’.
Davy Crockett
We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
Aleister Crowley
It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people’s business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.
Whitney Cummings
Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they truly are.
Cyrus the Great
Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth — these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die.
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In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.
Roald Dahl
Never mind about 1066 William the Conqueror, 1087 William the Second. Such things are not going to affect one?s life…but 1932 the Mars Bar and 1936 Maltesers and 1937 the Kit Kat – these dates are milestones in history and should be seared into the memory of every child in the country.
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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else … Kindness — that simple word. To be kind — it covers everything, to my mind. If you’re kind that’s it.
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If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
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If you are going to get anywhere in life, you have to read a lot of books.
Salvador Dali
Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.
Herman E. Daly
There is something fundamentally wrong with treating the Earth as though it were a business in liquidation.
Rodney Dangerfield
Yeah, I know I’m ugly… I said to a bartender, ‘Make me a zombie.’ He said ‘God beat me to it.’
Dante Alighieri
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
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If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Charles Darwin
To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.
Ram Dass
Love is the most transformative medicine For Love slowly transforms you Into what psychedelics only get you to glimpse.
Leonardo da Vinci
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
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I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
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Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.
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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
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The greatest deception we suffer from is our own opinions.
Angela Y. Davis
The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve?
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I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
Thema Davis
Have the maturity to know sometimes silence is more powerful than having the last word.
Dorothy Day
We must talk about poverty, because people insulated by their own comfort, lose sight of it.
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I firmly believe that our salvation depends on the poor.
Honore de Balzac
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
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A mother’s happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.
Simone De Beauvoir
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Eugene Debs
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.
Deep Purple
‘… but Swiss time was running out, it seemed we would lose the race. Smoke on the water, fire in the sky’ … RIP Jon Lord, 9 June 1941 – 16 July 2012, co-founder of Deep Purple, musician, song-writer.
Daniel Defoe
All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
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‘Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about : …’ From ‘Robinson Crusoe‘.
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In trouble to be troubled, is to have your trouble doubled.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
Edgar Degas
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
Ellen DeGeneres
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
Edmond de Goncourt
Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists… When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence.
Marquis de Lafeyette
I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can.
Lalah Delia
Your brain needs plenty of rest to function at it’s optimal level. Go to sleep!
Lorenzo de’ Medici
I wish that death had spared me until your library had been complete.
William Deming
You can expect what you inspect.
Democritus
I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
Michel De Montaigne
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.
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He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Mark DeNicola
We think we know one another so well that we actually never give ourselves the chance to truly get to know one another.
C.J. Dennis
‘On thro’ the hours, triumphant, proud an’ fit, The champeen marches on ‘is up’ard way, Till, at the zenith, bli’me! ‘E–is–IT! And all the world bows to the Boshter Day. The jealous Night speeds ethergrams thro’ space ‘Otly demandin’ terms, an’ time, an’ place.’ – from ‘The Stoush of Day‘, ‘Songs of a Sentimental Bloke‘ … originally published in The Bulletin on 1 April 1909 … note that C.J. Dennis foretold email by about 90 years with his reference to ‘ethergrams thro’ space’
Jacques Derrida
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
Charles de Secondat
‘Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason’.
William F. Devault
Hatred unlocks no doors in heaven.
Peter Diamandis
The day before something is a breakthrough it’s a crazy idea.
Philip K. Dick (1928-1982)
There will come a time when it isn’t ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me’.
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Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.
Charles Dickens
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.
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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.
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The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.
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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
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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.
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Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
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Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.
Joe DiMaggio
There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first or the last time, I owe him my best.
Diogenes of Sinope
I’m not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
‘Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent’.
E. L. Doctorow
‘Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way’.
Ariel Dorfman
We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.
Frederick Douglass
To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.
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Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.
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The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
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The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
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Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. The struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, or it may be both. But it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
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How good life is when one does something good and just!
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Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.
William O. Douglas
‘The liberties of none are safe unless the liberties of all are protected’.
Drake
Sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.
Dr Who
The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their view to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views … which can be very uncomfortable if you’re one of the facts that needs altering.
(Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, episode ‘Face of Evil’)
W. E. B. Du Bois
The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
Alexandré Dumas
It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
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Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
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Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
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I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
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Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
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All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Shane Duran
Care about other people, not about what other people think.
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Care about others, not about what others think.
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‘As the Olympics kicks off in London, it’s time to get the ball rolling. All Olympians need to knuckle down, take the gloves off and come out fighting. Now is not the time to pull punches. Who will go the distance? Hopefully the officials won’t move the goal-posts and no-one will hit below the belt or take a dive. Will one country win the medal tally hands-down or will it be by a nose? Almost every country in the world has thrown their hat in the ring. Thanks to television, the whole world has a ring-side seat.’ – July 2012
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‘he/she/it went off like a fruit-bat in a mango tree … ‘ Slang for any person or thing who is undertaking an activity in a noisy, frenzied, indulgent manner. It is a metaphor which occurred to me years ago while I was kicking back on my patio in North Queensland and admiring the sunset as the fruit-bats came into feed on the neighbour’s mango tree … as they did every night … in a crazy, squawking, ear-splitting, bacchanalian food binge …
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Try everything at least twice.
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The less that a product costs to buy, the more that it usually costs to own.
Tyler Duran
Life’s a playground. Have fun!
Wayne Dyer
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing.
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My goal is not to be better than anyone else, but to be better than I used to be.
Bob Dylan
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
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Don’t criticize what you can’t understand.