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"If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it." -Anthony Burgess-
"Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.".-Isaac Disraeli-
"You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.".-Aphra Behn
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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-
"We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners.".-Camille Paglia-
"I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.".-Henry van Dyke-
"When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, ''Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus.'' I said, ''That's where I got my information about hell.''".-Vance Havner-
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"The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.".-Elbert Hubbard-
"The human race has but one really affective weapon, and that is laughter.".-Mark Twain-
"Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world;he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.".-Albert Einstein-
"Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.".-Coco Chanel-
"To treat a ''big'' subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.".-Henry James-
"Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.".-Aleister Crowley-
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"Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines;and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.".-Oliver Goldsmith-
"Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.".-Albert Einstein-
"If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.".-Jean Baudrillard-
"The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.".-Henry Ford-
"Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.".-Bruce Lee-
"Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.".-Indira Gandhi-
"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.".-Pir Vilayat Khan-
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"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.".-Amos Bronson Alcott-
"You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.".-Christopher Marlowe-
"Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.".-Benjamin Franklin-
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"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.." -Arthur C. Clarke-
"What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.".-Jean Baudrillard-
"I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.".-Philip Roth-
"National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.".-Arthur Schopenhauer
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"Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.".-Virgil-
"I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.".-Charlie Chaplin-
"If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.".-Kahlil Gibran-
"Jesus wept;Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.".-Victor Hugo-
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"Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.".-Mark Twain-
"This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.".-Albert Einstein-
"You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.".-Colley Cibber-
"In our own hearts, we mold the whole world's hereafters;and in our own hearts we fashion our own gods.".-Herman Melville-
"Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.".-Alfred E. Smith-
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"A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.".-Henry James-
"Bad manners make a journalist.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.".-Aristotle-
"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.".-Kahlil Gibran-
"The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.".-Oscar Wilde-
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.".-Charles Austin Beard-
"Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.".-Henry Kissinger-
"To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.".-Oscar Wilde-
"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.".-Calvin Coolidge-
"We are no longer in a state of growth;we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.".-Jean Baudrillard-
"Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth;collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.".-Robert Hewison-
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"Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got.".-Andrew Young-
"Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.".-David Lehman-
"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence;and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness.".-Benjamin Franklin-
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"Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.." -Arthur Schopenhauer-
"Truth is stranger than fiction;fiction has to make sense.".-Leo Rosten-
"I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is a myth willfully fostered and nourished by certain semi-scientists and other fiction writers. And it has done more, I suspect, to unsettle marital happiness than any other false doctr".-Phyllis Mcginley-
"Two nations between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy;who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of different planets. The rich and the poor.".-Benjamin Disraeli
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"For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered;for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.".-Henry Kissinger-
"All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.".-Voltaire-
"The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?".-Dale Carnegie-
"None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus;but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.".-Lydia M. Child-
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.".-Albert Einstein-
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"Laughter is day, and sobriety is night;a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.".-Max Eastman-
"''Women's fashion'' is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.".-Andrea Dworkin-
"I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.".-David Bailey-
"Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion - it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.".-Karl Lagerfeld-
"Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.".-Amy Vanderbilt-
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"Simplicity in character, in manners, in style;in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
"Manners are love in a cool climate.".-Quentin Crisp-
"The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.".-Arthur Koestler-
"One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you. Perfection does not exist - you can always do better and you can always grow.".-Les Brown-
"While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy;the sec".-Oscar Wilde-
"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
"The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism;less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.".-Chris Patten-
"Everything is a gift of the universe - even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.".-Ken Keyes Jr.-
"We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.".-Virginia Satir-
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"I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of ''Munich'' may exceed the original error of 1938.".-Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.-
"The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.".-Deepak Chopra-
"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.".-Napoleon Hill-
"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.".-Blaise Pascal-
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"In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.." -Catherine Drinker Bowen-
"But I hate things all fiction... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric - and pure invention is but the talent of a liar.".-Lord George Byron-
"The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!".-Benjamin Franklin
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"The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident;to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.".-Lewis H. Lapham-
"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.".-Winston Churchill-
"Philosophical argument has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that was in me;but my heart has always assured me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be reality.".-Daniel Webster-
"Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind;Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind;neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.".-Matthew Arnold-
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.".-Albert Einstein-
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"In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.".-Kahlil Gibran-
"Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.".-Norman Cousins-
"To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.".-Arthur Wellesley-
"Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.".-Frank Dane-
"We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashion way. We pay it back.".-Lee Iacocca-
"Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.".-Benjamin Disraeli-
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"Clothes and manners do not make the man;but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn t?".-Quentin Crisp-
"So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.".-Beatrice Potter Webb-
"The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.".-Logan Pearsall Smith-
"We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.".-Pierre Corneille-
"There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
"A man's character is the reality of himself;his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him;character resides in him, reputation in other people;that is the substance, this is the shadow.".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.".-Pliny the Elder-
"The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"The entrepreneurial approach is not a sideline at 3M. It is the heart of our design for growth.".-Lewis Lehr-
"Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.".-William B. Yeats-
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"Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, secret treaties, triple alliances, and, during the interim period, appeasement of Fascism.".-Barbara Tuchman-
"At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of geography and colonial history should no longer determine who gets the fish.".-Derek Wall-
"A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.".-Publilius Syrus-
"Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.".-Carl Gustav Jung-
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"Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.." -Coleman Dowell-
"Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.".-Lord George Byron-
"The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality;by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, ".-Vance Palmer-
"I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine;which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.".-Captain J. G. Stedman
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"By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.".-Mark Twain-
"Somewhere in the bible it say Jesus hair was like lamb's wool, I say. Well, say Shug, if he came to any of these churches we talking bout he'd have to have it conked before anybody paid him any attention. The last thing niggers want to think about they God is that his hair kinky.".-Alice Walker-
"All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.".-David Livingstone-
"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires;but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love;and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.".-Alice Meynell-
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"Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.".-Karl Barth-
"The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.".-Oliver Goldsmith-
"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.".-Benjamin Disraeli-
"I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.".-Logan Pearsall Smith-
"Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.".-Benjamin Franklin-
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"Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.".-Horace Mann-
"Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.".-Bishop Robert South-
"I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is…the higher acheivement.".-Lois McMaster Bujold-
"A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.".-Pir Vilayat Khan-
"Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.".-Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-
"Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.".-Laurence J. Peter-
"There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears;but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed,".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.".-George Shinn-
"The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behavior control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.".-Lewis Thomas-
"Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.".-William Pitt-
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"Bad philosophers may have a certain influence;good philosophers, never.".-Bertrand Russell-
"In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.".-Don Marquis-
"Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
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"Space or science fiction has become a dialect for our time.." -Doris Lessing-
"Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.".-Mark Twain-
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.".-Virginia Woolf-
"The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.".-David Herbert Lawrence
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"The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only - not from its privileged classes.".-Mark Twain-
"You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew;the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.".-Anita Brookner-
"A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.".-Dwight L. Moody-
"White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.".-Nikki Giovanni-
"Laughter - An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.".-Ambrose Bierce-
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"Two things reduce prejudice: education and laughter.".-Laurence J. Peter-
"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.".-Buddha-
"Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.".-George Santayana-
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners;it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness;a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.".-Charles Simmons-
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"Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.".-Laurence Sterne-
"Sculpture and painting have the effect of teaching us manners and abolishing hurry.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection never our lot.".-C. J. Weber-
"Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection;no more.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
"Perfection is attained by slow degrees;she requires the hand of time.".-Voltaire-
"Concealed talent brings no reputation.".-Desiderius Erasmus-
"Propriety was a rigid master, but one that must be obeyed if one wanted to keep a sterling reputation.".-Lawana Blackwell-
"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.".-Voltaire-
"Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance;beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.".-Harold Macmillan-
"The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation - must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.".-Lyndon B. Johnson-
"I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive li".-William Wordsworth-
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"There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.".-Booker T. Washington-
"A teacher affects eternity;he can never tell where his influence stops.".-Henry Brooks Adams-
"Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it;for when we fail, our pride supports;when we succeed;it betrays us.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
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"Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.." -Heinrich Heine-
"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities;Truth isn't.".-Mark Twain-
"Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.".-Virginia Woolf-
"We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.".-Dean Acheson
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"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"No man ever loved like Jesus. He taught the blind to see and the dumb to speak. He died on the cross to save us. He bore our sins. And now God says, ''Because He did, I can forgive you.''".-Billy Graham-
"Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!".-Dwight L. Moody-
"Character in a saint means the disposition of Jesus Christ persistently manifested.".-Oswald Chambers-
"The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.".-Anne Rice-
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"Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after.".-Lord George Byron-
"In my mind, there is no, thing so illiberal and so ill-bred as audible laughter.".-Phillip Chesterfield-
"You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.".-Charles Haddon Spurgeon-
"Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.".-Henri B. Stendhal-
"The New is not a fashion, it is a value.".-Roland Barthes-
"Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners.".-Colley Cibber-
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"You lose your manners when you're poor.".-Lillian Hellman-
"There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.".-David Herbert Lawrence-
"The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.".-Mark Twain-
"The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.".-William B. Yeats-
"The more ignorant, reckless and thoughtless a doctor is, the higher his reputation soars even amongst powerful princes.".-Desiderius Erasmus-
"I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.".-Lord George Byron-
"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.".-Aleister Crowley-
"The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.".-Harold Macmillan-
"What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow;nothing can prevent it.".-Mark Twain-
"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.".-Albert Einstein-
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"Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.".-Carl Gustav Jung-
"Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and where ever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.".-Henry George-
"At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on.".-Albert Einstein-
"When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
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"One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.." -Henry Miller-
"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.".-Mark Twain-
"To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization.".-Abraham Lincoln-
"Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?".-Dorothy Thompson
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"He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.".-Blaise Pascal-
"Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.".-Dwight L. Moody-
"The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.".-Oswald Chambers-
"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.".-Charlie Chaplin-
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"Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.".-Lord George Byron-
"Laughter is the closest distance between two people.".-Victor Borge-
"There are a lot of people who must have the table laid in the usual fashion or they will not enjoy the dinner.".-Christopher Morley-
"I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"A good model can advance fashion by ten years.".-Yves Saint-Laurent-
"Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.".-Francis Bacon-
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"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.".-Lord Acton-
"Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.".-Thomas Hardy-
"Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.".-David M. Burns-
"Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.".-Matthew Arnold-
"Good character is like a rubber ball - thrown down hard - it bounces right back. Good reputation is like a crystal ball - thrown for gain - shattered and cracked.".-A. L. Linall Jr.-
"If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.".-Dwight L. Moody-
"To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured;to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.".-Oliver Goldsmith-
"Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.".-Angela Carter-
"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.".-Henry Miller-
"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle...".-Napoleon Hill-
"The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?".-Albert Einstein-
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"The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.".-Charles Horton Cooley-
"The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.".-Alexander Pope-
"Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.".-Charles de Gaulle-
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