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Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Socrates

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When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Confucius

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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Oscar Wilde

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Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Carl Sagan

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Immature love says: "I love you because I need you". Mature love says "I need you because I love you".

Erich Fromm

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A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.

Eugene Delacroix

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Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

J. Paul Getty

3

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Otto von Bismarck

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Confront them with annihilation, and they will then survive; plunge them into a deadly situation, and they will then live. When people fall into danger, they are then able to strive for victory.

Sun Tzu

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Power always thinks that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

John Adams

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The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

Saul Bellow

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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Aristotle

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The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Plato

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I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

George Sand

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