"Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one."

Gracian, Baltasar on Heroes and Heroism
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"I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was."

Ali, Muhammad on Humility
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"A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective."

Gide, Andre on Goals
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"Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too."

Unknown, Source on Humankind
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"The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity."

Fromm, Erich on Security
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"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on Tolerance
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"Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength."

Lao-Tzu on Cunning
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"The great tragedy of science is the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."

Huxley, Thomas H. on Science and Scientists
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"Obey the principles without being bound by them."

Lee, Bruce on Principles
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"The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing."

Delacroix, Eugene on Perfection
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"Wise men do not quarrel with each other."

Proverb, Danish on Quarrels
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"We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Wish and Wishing
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"Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world."

Margolius, Hans on Perception
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"A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on God
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"Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors."

Twain, Mark on Invention and Inventor
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"We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority."

Adler, Alfred on Inferiority
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"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."

Chuang Tzu on Happiness
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"Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man."

Whately, Richard on Honesty
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"Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren't good at details. Don't ignore details. Lick them."

Given, William B. on Detail
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"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

Peale, Norman Vincent on Change
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"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free."

Hughes, Charles Evans on Freedom
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"Bad philosophers may have a certain influence; good philosophers, never."

Russell, Bertrand on Philosophers and Philosophy
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"A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous."

Heard, Jane on Adaptability
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"Diplomacy is thinking twice before saying nothing."

Unknown, Source on Diplomacy
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"It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie."

O'Malley, Austin on Truth
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"Ignorance is not bliss -- ignorance is ignorance."

Unknown, Source on Ignorance
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"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."

Marden, Orison Swett on Opportunity
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"No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort."

Ruskin, John on Ability
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"An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots."

Unknown, Source on Failure
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"Failure is the path of least persistence"

Unknown, Source on Failure
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"We only think when we are confronted with problems."

Dewey, John on Challenges
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"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Miracles
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"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

Almanac, Mary S. on Change
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"Be happy or die."

Cohen, Rob on Happiness
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