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Mark Twain: The noblest work...

Mark Twain: The noblest work...

The noblest work of God? Man.
Who found it out? Man.


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Friedrich Nietzsche: To exercise power...

Friedrich Nietzsche: To exercise power...

To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: This is the...

Friedrich Nietzsche: This is the...

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and to keep modest as a...

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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Curses always recoil...

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Curses always recoil...

Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them. If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other...

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Henry Ward Beecher: You never know...

Henry Ward Beecher: You never know...

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right...

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J G Ballard: The car as...

J G Ballard: The car as...

The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned...

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John Steinbeck: People need responsibility....

John Steinbeck: People need responsibility....

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

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Louisa May Alcott: My definition [of...

Louisa May Alcott: My definition [of...

My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which...

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature that is...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Literature that is...

Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society...

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Jane Austen: Business, you know,...

Jane Austen: Business, you know,...

Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.

Source: Emma,...

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Jane Austen: I do not...

Jane Austen: I do not...

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great...

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James Allen: To begin to...

James Allen: To begin to...

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the...

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Richard Bach: The best way...

Richard Bach: The best way...

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Source: The Bridge Across...

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Winston Churchill: Do not let...

Winston Churchill: Do not let...

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us rather speak of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days...

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Winston Churchill: There is a...

Winston Churchill: There is a...

There is a precipice on either side of you -- a precipice of caution and a precipice of...

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Winston Churchill: Courage is going...

Winston Churchill: Courage is going...

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Source: In The...

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Winston Churchill: The nose of...

Winston Churchill: The nose of...

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting...

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Abraham Lincoln: When I do...

Abraham Lincoln: When I do...

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion.

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Barack Obama: Focusing your life...

Barack Obama: Focusing your life...

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself....

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James A Garfield: A university is...

James A Garfield: A university is...

A university is a student on one end of a pine log and Mark Hopkins [president of Williams College ] on the...

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