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"Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.." -David Herbert Lawrence-
"Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue;it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.".-Bernard Mandeville-
"The principal mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.".-Arthur Koestler-
"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.".-Lord George Byron-
"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.".-Indira Gandhi-
"Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.".-Freya Stark-
"Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.".-Dwight D. Eisenhower-
"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.".-Oscar Levant-
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"We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.".-Charles Dudley Warner-
"Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.".-Benjamin Disraeli-
"Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.".-William B. Yeats-
"The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.".-Lee Iacocca-
"Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?".-Bernice Fitz-Gibbon-
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"A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.".-Billy Graham-
"Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.".-Phyllis Mcginley-
"An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.".-Fred A. Allen-
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.".-Booker T. Washington-
"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.".-Norman Vincent Peale-
"Criticism is prejudice made plausible.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [With] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.".-Clare Boothe Luce-
"Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.".-Pierre Joseph Proudhon-
"Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.".-Helen Keller-
"Let thy discontents be thy secrets.".-Benjamin Franklin-
"Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.".-Leonard Cohen-
"Nothing goes out of fashion sooner than a long dress with a very low neck.".-Coco Chanel-
"Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.".-Aldous Huxley-
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.".-Leo Buscaglia-
"Listening to both sides does not necessarily bring about a correct judgment.".-Donald Rumsfeld-
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"Now man cannot live without some vision of himself.." -David Herbert Lawrence-
"No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty;but without it one vastly beneath the rank of man.".-Bruce Barton-
"The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men.".-Blaise Pascal-
"Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.".-Voltaire
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"A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.".-Kahlil Gibran-
"A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
"Humility is no substitute for a good personality.".-Fran Lebowitz-
"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-
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"A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.".-Karl Kraus-
"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"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-
"We begin to live when we have conceived life as tragedy.".-William B. Yeats-
"Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.".-Lewis Grizzard-
"Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.".-Brian Aldiss-
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"Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.".-Elbert Hubbard-
"Anyone who has obeyed nature by transmitting a piece of gossip experiences the explosive relief that accompanies the satisfying of a primary need.".-Primo Levi-
"Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.".-Fred A. Allen-
"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.".-Claude M. Bristol-
"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.".-Orison Swett Marden-
"Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination... from poverty.".-Hubert H. Humphrey-
"You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.".-Desiderius Erasmus-
"Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country.".-Vladimir Ilyich Lenin-
"Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.".-Henry Drummond-
"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.".-Charles Caleb Colton-
"Secrets travel fast in Paris.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you.".-Francoise Sagan-
"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!".-Anne Frank-
"Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.".-Les Brown-
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.".-Doug Larson-
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"A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.." -Denis Waitley-
"Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.".-Christian Nevell Bovee-
"Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.".-Charles Baudelaire-
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.".-Adam Smith
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"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.".-Voltaire-
"Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.".-Lawana Blackwell-
"I hold it true, whatever befall;I feel it, when I sorrow most;Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.".-Francis Quarles-
"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-
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"Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.".-Les Brown-
"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.".-Charlie Chaplin-
"One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.".-A. W. Tozer-
"On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.".-Lou Holtz-
"Creativity is a drug I cannot live without.".-Cecil DeMille-
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"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.".-Walter Winchell-
"Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.".-Julie Burchill-
"One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.".-Dale Carnegie-
"Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.".-Allan Bloom-
"It is just as impossible to help reform by conciliating prejudice as it is by buying votes. Prejudice is the enemy. Whoever is not for you is against you.".-John Jay Chapman-
"Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.".-Doris Lessing-
"Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.".-Aesop-
"The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure - but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the".-Hubert H. Humphrey-
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.".-Colin Powell-
"He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.".-Frank Zappa-
"Questions provide the key to unlocking our unlimited potential.".-Anthony Robbins-
"Knowledge is only potential power.".-Napoleon Hill-
"The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.".-Dwight L. Moody-
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"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.." -Helen Keller-
"I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty. But I am too busy thinking about myself.".-Dame Edith Sitwell-
"He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.".-Charles Lamb-
"Two purposes in human nature rule. Self-love to urge, and reason to restrain.".-Alexander Pope
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"Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.".-Voltaire-
"Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars.".-Leo Tolstoy-
"The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.".-Mark Twain-
"Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.".-Albert Einstein-
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"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.".-Norman Douglas-
"Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.".-Karl Marx-
"The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have sh".-Leon Edel-
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.".-Babe Ruth-
"Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity.".-Vince Lombardi-
"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.".-Edwin H. Land-
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"Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.".-Herb Shriner-
"If we have to tell Hollywood good-by, it may be with one of those tender, old-fashioned, seven-second kisses exchanged between two people of the opposite sex, with all their clothes on.".-Anita Loos-
"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.".-Katharine Hepburn-
"If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.".-Frank A. Clark-
"A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.".-Ambrose Bierce-
"Wherever you see a man who gives someone else's corruption, someone else's prejudice as a reason for not taking action himself, you see a cog in The Machine that governs us.".-John Jay Chapman-
"Either these [unsaved] people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.".-Dwight L. Moody-
"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.".-Albert Einstein-
"Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other;it will unriddle many riddles;it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now.".-Mark Twain-
"Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.".-Don Delillo-
"The virtue of dress rehearsals is that they are a free show for a select group of artists and friends of the author, and where for one unique evening the audience is almost expurgated of idiots.".-Alfred Jarry-
"For age is opportunity no less than youth itself, though in another dress, and as the evening twilight fades away, the sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
"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-
"In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.".-Norman Vincent Peale-
"When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.".-Florence Griffith-Joyner-
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"It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.." -Helen Keller-
"Modesty is the color of virtue.".-Diogenes of Sinope-
"By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress;in the cult of individuality, originality and self-exp".-Dan Cruickshank-
"A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.".-Andrew Matthews
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"Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.".-Albert Camus-
"One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult;one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.".-Louis-Ferdinand Celine-
"It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man that is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change".-Frank Lloyd Wright-
"Our ideals are our better selves.".-Amos Bronson Alcott-
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"There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.".-Woodrow T. Wilson-
"Only little people pay taxes.".-Leona Helmsley-
"Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.".-Mark Twain-
"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-
"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.".-Vince Lombardi-
"The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.".-Edwin H. Land-
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"The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesn't discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have sh".-Leon Edel-
"Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.".-Ben Hecht-
"I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.".-Michael Douglas-
"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.".-Henry David Thoreau-
"The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.".-Frank Lloyd Wright-
"A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.".-B. C. Forbes-
"When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.".-Norman Vincent Peale-
"Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.".-Dorothy Dix-
"I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.".-Anthony Trollope-
"Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.".-Liz Smith-
"The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.".-David Hare-
"Every man is a potential genius until he does something.".-Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree-
"The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.".-Fran Lebowitz-
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