"One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world."

Proverb, Jewish on Family
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"Imitation belittles."

Bovee, Christian Nevell on Imitation
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"No one ever became great by imitation."

Johnson, Samuel on Greatness
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"An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate."

De Chateaubriand on Originality
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"Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything."

Brookner, Anita on Women
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"On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women."

Mencken, H. L. on Agreement
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"Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading."

Auden, W. H. on Conceit
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"See the man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope for a fool than for him. [Proverbs 26:7]"

Bible on Conceit
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"I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment."

Mother Teresa on Jesus Christ
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"Somewhere in the bible it say Jesus hair was like lamb's wool, I say. Well, say Shug, if he came to any of these churches we talking bout he'd have to have it conked before anybody paid him any attention. The last thing niggers want to think about they God is that his hair kinky."

Walker, Alice on Jesus Christ
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"Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God."

Athanasius, St. on Jesus Christ
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"Country music is three chords and the truth."

Howard, Harlan on Music
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"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

Auerbach, Berthold on Music
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"Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst."

Lin Yu-tang on Peace of Mind
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"Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun."

Unknown, Source on Peace
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"Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight."

Hansen, Mark Victor on Achievement
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"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide."

Gandhi, Mahatma on Humor
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"One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool."

Proverb, Chinese on Humor
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"It is easy enough to be virtuous When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within No voice of sin Is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire."

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler on Virtue
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"O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul."

Renan, Joseph Ernst on Soul
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"And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. [Matthew 10:28]"

Bible on Death and Dying
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"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit."

Schweitzer, Albert on Cooperation
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"Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back."

Rubinstein, Arthur on Love
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"To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead --somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble punk and to love an honest man who believes himself to be an honest man --somewhere these, too, come together."

Duras, Marguerite on Love
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on Hatred
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"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship, never."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Love
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"Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake."

Blake, William on Friends and Friendship
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"Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon."

Butler, Samuel on Loyalty
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"Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength."

Hoffer, Eric on Manners
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"Physical strength in a woman -- that's what I am."

Turner, Tina on Strength
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"Without consistency there is no moral strength."

Owen on Consistency
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"Union gives strength."

Aesop on Cooperation
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"He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity"

Jonson, Ben on Adversity
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"The education of a man is never complete until he dies."

Lee, Robert E. on Education
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"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked."

Ginsberg, Allen on Insanity
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"Nine tenths of education is encouragement."

France, Anatole on Education
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"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Success
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"Broken friendships can be soldered, but never sound."

Proverb on Friends and Friendship
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"Despair gives courage to a coward."

Fuller, Thomas on Despair
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"My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em."

Lynn, Loretta on Adultery
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