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Lao Tzu
To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue.
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Jim Rohn
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
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Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
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Dave Storer
Don't get suckered in by the comments ... they can terribly be misleading.
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G. K. Chesterton
I believe in getting into hot water it keeps you clean.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
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William Lyon Phelps
The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.
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Bernard M. Baruch
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must be grappled with. You may not like what you find. In that case you are entitled to try to change it. But do not deceive yourself as to what you do find to be the facts of the situation.
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Golda Meir
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil
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Learned Hand
The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.
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Ronnie Hawkins
We had parties that Nero would have been ashamed to attend
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Amanda Cross
The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
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