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I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero
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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
Author: Honore De Balzac
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Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?.
Author: Fanny Brice
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
Author: Vince Gill
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It is the growling man who lives a dog's life.
Author: Coleman Cox
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Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.
Author: Edward M. Forster
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Temperance is a bridle of gold.
Author: Burton
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They are eloquent who can speak low things acutely, and of great things with dignity, and of moderate things with temper.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face.
Author: Robert Burn
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The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.
Author: Richard Clark
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To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty.
Author: Laber
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Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.
Author: Milarepa
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Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.
Author: H. A. Hopf
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If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
Author: Marcus T. Cicero
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Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
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Intelligence is nothing without delight.
Author: Paul Claudel
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True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
Author: Philip Massinger
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My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs.
Author: Marcel Pagnol
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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
Author: Auguste Comte
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You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.
Author: Joseph Stalin
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Author: Charlotte Bronte
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Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.
Author: George Iles
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Oh, how bitter it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
Author: Wilfred T. Grenfell
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No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated...to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
Author: Ellen Glasgow
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Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered.
Author: Jann Mitchell
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The world is your mirror and your mind is a magnet. What you perceive is in this world is largely a reflection of your own attitudes and beliefs. Life will give you what you attract with your thoughts think, act and talk negatively and your world will be negative. Think and act and talk with enthusiasm and you will attract positive results.
Author: Michael Lebeuf
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Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
Author: Marlon Brando
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The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.
Author: Apocrypha
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The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.
Author: Michael Korda
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Hamming's Motto: The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
Author: Hamming
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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
Author: Lucille Ball
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No matter how hard you work for success if your thought is saturated with the fear of failure, it will kill your efforts, neutralize your endeavors and make success impossible.
Author: Baudjuin
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Author: Martin
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Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.
Author: Shakti Gawain
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Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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Gluttony is an emotional sign that something is eating us.
Author: Peter Devries
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Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
Author: Sally Koch
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Some fear the dark; I embrace it. It is the only place where my eyes are blind, and my soul wanders freely from the truth of reality.
Author: Laura
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Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
Author: Louis-ferdinand Celine
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Right is its own defense.
Author: Bertolt Brecht
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A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with
mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to
justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really
attractive.
Author: Bruce Friedman
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I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.
Author: Scotty Bowman
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The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.
Author: Louis Armstrong
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If you don't ask, you don't get.
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
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Either you think -- or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Author: Basho
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A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.
Author: Mary Kay Ash
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