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  • John Wooden Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Geoffrey F. Abert When you take charge of your life, there is no longer need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.
    Geoffrey F. Abert
    American author
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  • Oscar Wilde Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Mark Twain Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Francis Bacon A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Confucius Can there be a love which does not make demands on its object?
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Acharya Mahapragya Thinking is good, but excessive thinking is not. Between thoughts if there is a period of thoughtlessness, thoughts will be fresh and pathbreaking. A thinker will be able to cultivate a strain of healthy thoughts only when he pays attention to thoughtlessness also.
    Thought at Sunrise (2007)
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  • Joseph Addison Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Bette Davis Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child. A parent must also not be afraid to hang himself. If you have never been hated by your child, you have never been a parent.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • William Congreve If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Alexander the Great There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Carroll Quigley There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Jules Renard Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.
    Jules Renard
    French writer (1864 - 1910)
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  • Don Delillo Don't you realize that as long as you have to sit down to pee, you'll never be a dominant force in the world? You'll never be a convincing technocrat or middle manager. Because people will know. She's in there sitting down.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Joseph Addison Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • James Stephens ''Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it,'' said the Philosopher.
    James Stephens
    Irish writer and poet (1882 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Smiles ''Where there is a will there is a way.'' is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it, and secures its achievement. To think we are able, is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Meister Eckhart A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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