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"If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.." -Henry David Thoreau-
"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.".-Horace-
"God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.".-Imamu Amiri Baraka-
"Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal. [On Washington D. C.]".-Frank Dane-
"Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.".-Denis Waitley-
"Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny;it is the political defense of women hating.".-Andrea Dworkin-
"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.".-Plato-
"To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.".-Charles Baudelaire-
"It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.".-Anthony Robbins-
"Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.".-Camille Paglia-
"Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.".-Robert Hewison-
"The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.".-Herb Caen-
"Failing to plan is planning to fail.".-Alan Lakein-
"If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.".-Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt-
"I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me-spiritually and financially.".-Denzel Washington-
"Pride is an admission of weakness;it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.".-Fulton John Sheen-
"Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.".-Chris Evert-
"We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.".-Mark Twain-
"We never live;we are always in the expectation of living.".-Voltaire-
"Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike;that".-Andy Warhol-
"Every professional athlete owes a debt of gratitude to the fans and management, and pays an installment every time he plays. He should never miss a payment.".-Bobby Hull-
"Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.".-Dwight D. Eisenhower-
"Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear.".-Ihab Hassan-
"New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.".-David Letterman-
"We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.".-Camille Paglia-
"When I think of this life I have led;the desolation of solitude it has been;the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!".-Herman Melville-
"Such indeed is the superior longevity of the fair females of Surinam, compared to that of the males (owing chiefly, as I said, to their excesses of all sorts) that I have frequently known wives who have buried four husbands, but never met a man in this country who had survived two wives.".-Captain J. G. Stedman-
"Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.".-Jean Baudrillard-
"It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.".-Francis H. Bradley-
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"What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.." -Horace-
"In days gone by, we were afraid of dying in dishonor or a state of sin. Nowadays, we are afraid of dying fools. Now the fact is that there is no Extreme Unction to absolve us of foolishness. We endure it here on earth as subjective eternity.".-Jean Baudrillard-
"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.".-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.".-Henry George-
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.".-Don Marquis-
"Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.".-Camille Paglia-
"Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.".-Ayn Rand-
"They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.".-Katherine Anne Porter-
"Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.".-Anthony Robbins-
"Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [With] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.".-Clare Boothe Luce-
"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.".-Vaclav Havel-
"We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.".-Nicolai A. Berdyaev-
"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now.".-Alan Lakein-
"Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.".-Kwame Nkrumah-
"Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved - commitment to a scenario.".-Jean Baudrillard-
"Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.".-Henry Ford-
"The only prudence in life is concentration.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.".-Mark Twain-
"No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.".-Bertolt Brecht-
"No one can transcend their own individuality.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot be expected to recognize a good idea unless it is presented to them by a good salesman.".-David Ogilvy-
"Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.".-Les Brown-
"Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.".-Orson Welles-
"We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.".-Hubert H. Humphrey-
"Understand that you, yourself, are no more than the composite picture of all your thoughts and actions. In your relationships with others, remember the basic and critically important rule: If you want to be loved, be lovable. If you want respect, set a respectable example!".-Denis Waitley-
"Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.".-Lord George Byron-
"Wives are young men's mistresses;companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.".-Francis Bacon-
"Freedom is the opportunity to make decisions...".-Kenneth Hildebrand-
"In art economy is always beauty.".-Henry James-
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