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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.: Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.: Victor Hugo (1802 - 1885)
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.: Salma Hayek
All appears to change when we change.: Henri-Frédéric Amiel
You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, October 20, 2003
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.: Marlene Dietrich (1901 - 1992)
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There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
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One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.: Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)
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By the work one knows the workmen.: Jean De La Fontaine (1621 - 1695)
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.: Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
They always talk who never think.: Matthew Prior (1664 - 1721)
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.: Jewish Proverb
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We touch other peoples lives simply by existing.: J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way he steadily raises his level of aspiration.: Kurt Lewin (1890 - 1947)
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Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.: Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
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When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.: Ugo Betti, Struggle Till Dawn
It is true that I was born in Iowa, but I can't speak for my twin sister.: Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), (Dear Abby)
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I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.: Dick Gregory (1932 - )
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