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When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment
[Warren Farrell]

A committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours
[Milton Berle]

Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite
[John Kenneth Galbraith]

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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog
[Jack London]

Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist
[Michael Levine]

If you come to a fork in the road, take it
[Yogi Berra]

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The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do
[John Holt]

It's good to shut up sometimes
[Marcel Marceau]

How can you have charisma? Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are making them feel good about you
[Dan Reiland]

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The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself
[Bo Bennett]

Do not wait for the last judgement. It takes place every day
[Albert Camus]

Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are
[Dale Carnegie]

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Nothing endures but change
[Heraclitus]

Change your thoughts and you change your world
[Norman Vincent Peale]

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change
[Ramsay Clark]

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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself
[Andy Warhol]

Things do not change; we change
[Henry David Thoreau]

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered
[Nelson Mandela]

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Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds
[Franklin D Roosvelt]

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish
[Ovid]

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved
[William Jennings Bryan]

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When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing
[Enrique Jardiel Poncela]

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw
[Havelock Ellis]

Cowards die many times before their deaths
[William Shakespeare]

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Every exit is an entry somewhere
[Tom Stoppard]

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses
[Tom Wilson]

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it
[James Bryce]

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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique
[James Baldwin]

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun
[Pablo Picasso]

Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense
[Chapman Cohen]

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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't
[Erica Jong]

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it
[Arthur Schopenhauer]

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe
[Anatole France]

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Above all, ignore the audience
[Minnie Maddern Fiske]

I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but an adventurer
[Sigmund Freud]

Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does
[Stuart Henderson]

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Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is
[Albert Camus]

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within
[Gandhi]

It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying
[Ingrid Bergman]

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Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all
[Sam Ewig]

There are some women who should barely be spoken to; they should only be caressed
[Edgar Degas]

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest
[Confucius]

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed
[Carl Jung]

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends
[Cicero]

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you
[Dale Carnegie]

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail
[Gore Vidal]

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure
[William Saroyan]

Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it
[Malcom X]

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Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength
[Eric Hoffer]

Experience is a hard teacher: she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards
[Vernon Sanders Law]

My favorite animal is steak
[Fran Lebowitz]

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The foundation of every state is the education of its youth
[Diogenes Laertius]

We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction
[Aesop]

Always forgive your enemies: nothing annoys them so much
[Oscar Wilde]

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As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death
[Leonardo Da Vinci]

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind
[Albert Szent-Györgyi]

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd
[Voltaire]

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Courage is doing what you're afraid to do
[Eddie Rickenbacker]

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources
[Alber Einstein]

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing
[Elbert Hubbard]