Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights. J.
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One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.
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Talking and eloquence are not the same thing: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
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I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.
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He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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The gods too are fond of a joke.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
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Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
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I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
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The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
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If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around you own.
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We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
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How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
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Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams.
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Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.
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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. Richard M.
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Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
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No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist. J.
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Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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In order to write about life, first you must live it
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Live life to the fullest.
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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
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Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
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This is the true joy in life -- being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one...
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And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.
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Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
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How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
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When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for .success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. W.
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From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.
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Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
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Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
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Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.
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