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"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.." -Vaclav Havel-
"A time would come when men should be able to stretch out their eyes... They should see the planets like our earth.".-C. Wren-
"Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.".-Mark Twain
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"They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.".-Voltaire-
"People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.".-Brendan Francis-
"We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.".-Winston Churchill-
"''Doing your own thing'' is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.".-Barbara Sher-
"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.".-Claude M. Bristol-
"The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.".-George Santayana-
"The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.".-Vladimir Ilyich Lenin-
"If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.".-Cavett Robert-
"You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
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"Greatness is a spiritual condition.".-Matthew Arnold-
"The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.".-Anthony Powell-
"Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.".-Elbert Hubbard-
"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents shortcomings.".-Laurence J. Peter-
"Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.".-Oscar Wilde-
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.".-Albert Einstein-
"Here is a field open for talent;and here, merit will a have certain favor, and industry is graced with its due reward.".-Claudius-
"The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
"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-
"It is a happy talent to know how to play.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.".-Ayn Rand-
"Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want.".-Clive Barnes-
"On a group of theories one can found a school;but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.".-Ignazio Silone-
"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.".-Ludwig Wittgenstein-
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"I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.." -Viktor E. Frankl-
"Speech is the gift of all, but the thought of few.".-Cato the Elder-
"Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing;but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus.".-Mark Twain
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"The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!".-Winston Churchill-
"My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.".-Carl Rowan-
"When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.".-Helen Rowland-
"An ordinary man away from home giving advice.".-Oscar Wilde-
"In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.".-Winston Churchill-
"You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.".-Ben Stein-
"All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish.".-Clive James-
"Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind;it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.".-Helen Keller-
"This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.".-Zig Ziglar-
"No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him;it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.".-Charles Francis Adams-
"If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.".-Horace Mann-
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"Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.".-Vaclav Havel-
"No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.".-Bertrand Russell-
"The main reason I wanted to be successful was to get out of the ghetto. My parents helped direct my path.".-Florence Griffith-Joyner-
"People say to me, ''You were a roaring success. How did you do it?'' I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.".-Lee Iacocca-
"A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!".-Philip Roth-
"There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.".-Aldous Huxley-
"Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.".-Collange Christine-
"Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object".-Hermann Hesse-
"Let the path be open to talent.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"Talent for talent's sake is a bauble and a show. Talent working with joy in the cause of universal truth lifts the possessor to new power as a benefactor.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
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"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.".-Billy Joel-
"When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.".-Confucius-
"The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.".-Jean Baudrillard-
"It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.".-Northrop Frye-
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"Responsibility is the price of greatness.." -Winston Churchill-
"Speech has been given to man to disguise his thoughts.".-Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-
"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.".-Ingrid Bergman-
"Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.".-Max Eastman
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"I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.".-Woodrow T. Wilson-
"We ask advice but we mean approbation.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
"I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.".-Oscar Wilde-
"In those days he was wiser than he is now;he used to frequently take my advice.".-Winston Churchill-
"Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.".-Bhagavad Gita-
"The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.".-Colin Powell-
"Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.".-Zig Ziglar-
"Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial;in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage.".-Charles Simmons-
"The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.".-Isaac Bashevis Singer-
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"The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...".-Nelson Boswell-
"Mental toughness is many things. It is humility because it behooves all of us to remember that simplicity is the sign of greatness and meekness is the sign of true strength. Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedicati".-Vince Lombardi-
"Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.".-Bill Cosby-
"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.".-Francis Bacon-
"In Boston they ask, ''How much does he know?'' In New York, ''How much is he worth?'' In Philadelphia, ''Who were his parents?''".-Mark Twain-
"Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.".-Plato-
"Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.".-Alexander Solzhenitsyn-
"A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without finding himself in his rightful place of composition, the small single unluxurious ''retreat'' of the twentieth century, the hotel bedroom.".-Cyril Connolly-
"My God given talent is my ability to stick with training longer than anybody else.".-Herschel Walker-
"Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.".-Nolan Ryan-
"Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity;easy vulnerability;high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting - intensely);a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality;the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.".-Uta Hagen-
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"People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have.".-Brian Friel-
"The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization;the factors of decadence, luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.".-Cyril Connolly-
"Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.".-Karl Kraus-
"Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.".-Oscar Wilde-
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"The price of greatness is responsibility.." -Winston Churchill-
"The superior man is modest in his speech but exceeds in his actions.".-Confucius-
"We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deep".-Konstantin Stanislavisky-
"Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.".-Norman O. Brown
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"It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.".-Aeschylus-
"Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.".-David Seabury-
"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.".-Henry Ford-
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.".-Oscar Wilde-
"If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.".-A. A. Milne-
"On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear.".-Bhagavad Gita-
"But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.".-David Herbert Lawrence-
"There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry.".-Henry Miller-
"Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.".-Albert Camus-
"True greatness consists in being great in little things.".-Charles Simmons-
"We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.".-Jean Baudrillard-
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"All my life I have always known I was born to greatness.".-Oprah Winfrey-
"Exaggeration is the inseparable companion of greatness.".-Voltaire-
"A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.".-Billy Graham-
"The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.".-Frank A. Clark-
"My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.".-Mark Twain-
"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.".-Quentin Crisp-
"Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.".-Antoine Rivarol-
"A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.".-David Ogilvy-
"The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.".-Irving Berlin-
"The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.".-Oliver Wendell Holmes-
"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.".-Albert Camus-
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"A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.".-Camille Paglia-
"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.".-Frank Lloyd Wright-
"When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.".-Karl Kraus-
"To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.".-Oscar Wilde-
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