"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on Institutions
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"Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune."

Socrates on Change
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"The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible."

DeVos, Richard M. on Belief
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"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."

Fitzgerald, F. Scott on Memory
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"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

James, William on Purpose
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"Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others."

Braude, Jacob M. on Change
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"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."

Hubbard, Elbert on Stupidity
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"There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on Conversation
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"the loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired"

Southey on
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"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."

Barrie, Sir James M. on Happiness
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

Hughes, Langston on Dreams
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

Coolidge, Calvin on Perseverance
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"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, Here comes number seventy-one!"

DeVos, Richard M. on Perseverance
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"As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason."

Browne, Sir Thomas on Reason
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"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."

Epictetus on Affirmation
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"Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough."

Wilson, Earl on Problems
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"It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

Nin, Anais on Courage
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"A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked"

Nin, Anais on Joy
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"Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. It is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart, and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with it, earth is heaven, and we are gods. "

Ingersoll, Robert Green on Uncategorised
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

Mead, Margaret on Teams and Teamwork
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"Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor."

Quarles, Francis on Flattery
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"Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it."

Gracian, Baltasar on Evil
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"A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark."

Allen, Woody on Relationships
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Achievement
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"I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end."

Thatcher, Margaret on Patience
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"Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

Thatcher, Margaret on Power
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"To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects."

Thatcher, Margaret on Consensus
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"Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you."

Horace on Anger
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"I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book."

Marx, Groucho on Television
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"Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned."

Chesnutt, Charles W. on Impossibility
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"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."

Angelis, Barbara De on Love
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"It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country."

Durant, William J. on Country
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"Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry."

Beecher, Henry Ward on Anger
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"Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness."

Goldsmith, Sir James on Tolerance
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"Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish."

Ovid on Fate
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"If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?"

Fromm, Erich on Possessions
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"Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on Mistakes
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"Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made."

Browning, Robert on Age and Aging
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"Feelings are like chemicals, the more you analyze them the worse they smell."

Kingsley, Charles on Feelings
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"Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality."

Marston, Ralph on Reality
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