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Plato
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll of the neighbors, so it is irrational to prescribe for the body politic by polling the opinions of the people at large.
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Albert Einstein
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
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William Shakespeare
The sands are number'd that make up my life.
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James Arthur Baldwin
No one can possibly know what is about to happen it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.
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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
For how many things, which for our own sake we should never do, do we perform for the sake of our friends.
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Titus Livius
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
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Phillips Brooks
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
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Edward H. Harriman
Every man should make up his own mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.
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Napolean Hill
Your mental attitude is someting you can control outright and you must use self-discipline until you create a Positive Mental Attitude -- your mental attitude attracts to you everything that makes you what you are.
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Aesop
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
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King Charles I
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
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