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Napolean Hill
You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity
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Agnes Repplier
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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John F. Kennedy, October 26, 1963
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
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Robert Solow
It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.
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Thomas Hobbes
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
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Arnold Bennett
Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.
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Robert Hutchins
The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.
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Bruce Barton
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage.
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John Burroughs
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Anais Nin
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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George Will, Newsweek, 2/22/93
...in the lexicon of the political class, the word sacrifice means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it.
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