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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952), Life of Reason (1905) vol. 1, ch. 10
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Back to Methuselah (1921) pt. 5
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He who has never hoped can never despair.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4
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There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), Speech in Chicago, 3 Apr. 1903
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
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When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.: Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), My Day
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I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.: Igor Stravinsky (1882 - 1971)
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