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Arthur Schopenhauer: Of letters and opinions
“To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.” —Arthur Schopenhauer
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Thomas Fuller: Patience and suffering
“All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. ” —Thomas Fuller.
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William Gurnall: Withdrawing God
“The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God. ” —William Gurnall.
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Warren Buffett: Reputation
“It takes twenty years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.” – Warren Buffett
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Jane Austen: Dress and sense
“Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.” —Jane Austen.
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Unknown: Hope
“Never deprive someone of hope — it may be all they have.” —Unknown.
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Desmond Tutu: Cursed neutrality
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality. ” –—Desmond Tutu.
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Samuel E. Morison: Not of the long-suffering wife
“If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife. ” —Samuel E. Morison.
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Pope John Paul II: Freedom
“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.” —Pope John Paul II.
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Bruce Lee: Bank of fortitude
“I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I have come to understand that life is…
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Publilius Syrus: Haste and prudence
“Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.” —Publilius Syrus
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Gloria Vanderbilt: Fame
“The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.” —Gloria Vanderbilt.
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Johnny Ball: Ageism
“Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime. ” —Johnny Ball
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Bob Marley: Prayers to the devil
“If you get down and quarrel everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say. ” —Bob Marley.
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Julie Burchill: Pretty faces
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it’s not, it’s a visa, and it runs out fast. –Julie Burchill, writer and journalist (b. 1959)
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Elie Wiesel: Injustice
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. –Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928 Related articles Elie Wiesel on How He Became a Bernie Madoff Victim (VIDEO)(huffingtonpost.com) Night by Elie Wiesel Audiobook Nazi Holocaust Survivor(lissakr11humanelife.wordpress.com) The Opposite…
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Herbert Prochnow: Questions and answers
“You never have to know all the answers because you won’t be asked all the questions. ”—Herbert Prochnow.
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Robert Frost: Nonsense
“Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense. ” Robert Frost.
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Pablo Picasso: Good taste
Ah, good taste, what a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness. –Pablo Picasso, painter and sculptor (1881-1973)
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Jon Johansen: We knew
“We knew that they would probably go after someone. ” —Jon Johansen.
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Henri Frdric Amiel: Outrage
“Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.” Henri Frdric Amiel
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Pope John Paul II: Excuses
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded. Pope John Paul II
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Chinese Proverb: Teachers
“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.” —Chinese Proverb.
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David Letterman: Television
“Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.” —David Letterman.
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Swami Vivekananda: Thoughts
“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think.” —Swami Vivekananda.
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John Steinbeck: Sad soul
“A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. ” —John Steinbeck.
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Anonymous: Confounding truth
We ignore the ones who adore us, and adore the ones who ignore us. Anonymous
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Wendell Wilkie: Good manners
“The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones. ” —Wendell Wilkie.
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Diogenes: Dream of a waking man
“The question was put to him, what hope is and his answer was, The dream of a waking man.” —Diogenes.
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Nelson Mandela: Negotiation
Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. —Nelson Mandela
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Pope John Paul II: Polish sin
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin. Pope John Paul II
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Abraham Lincoln: Trees and shadows
“Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow.” —Abraham Lincoln.
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Margaret Mitchell: Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!
“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived….…
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John Keegan: Diplomats
“It’s a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble. ” John Keegan
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Johnny Thunders: How I prefer it…
“Many people love me, many people hate me – there’s nobody in between. That’s the way I prefer it. ” Johnny Thunders
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Ronald Reagan: Economists
“One definition of an economist is somebody who sees something happen in practice and wonders if it will work in theory. ” —Ronald Reagan.
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Maxwell Maltz: Opportunity redefined
“What is opportunity, and when does it knock? It never knocks. You can wait a whole lifetime, listening, hoping, and you will hear no knocking. None at all. You are opportunity, and you must knock on the door leading to your destiny. You prepare yourself to recognize opportunity, to pursue and seize opportunity as you…
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Buddha: Be your own lamp
“Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold to the truth within yourself, as to the only truth.” The Buddha
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John Updike: Americans and newness
“Americans have been conditioned to respect newness, whatever it costs them. ”—John Updike.
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St. Augustine: Humility
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart. —St. Augustine
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Pope John Paul II: Celibacy
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one’s word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest’s inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity. —Pope John Paul II
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Oscar Wilde: Reading
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it. ” —Oscar Wilde.
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Oscar Pistorius: Life's only disability
“The only disability in life is having a bad attitude.” —Oscar Pistorius, Olympic and Paralympic runner.
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Jawaharlal Nehru: Facts are facts
“Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. ” —Jawaharlal Nehru
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Raymond Chandler: American civilization
The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt. —Raymond Chandler (1888–1959),…
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Mark Miller: Leadership
“My goal as a leader is not to think less of myself, just [to] think of myself less often.” —Mark Miller, author, writing at SmartBlog on Leadership.
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Benjamin Franklin: Love, absence and presence
“Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. ” —Benjamin Franklin
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Francis John McConnell: Patriotism
“We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. ” — Francis John McConnell
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Honoré De Balzac: Kindness
“Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from.”—Honoré De Balzac
