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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

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“A life spent making mistakes is not only

more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

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“Expectation is the root of all heartache.”

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“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever

deserves them will not make you cry.”

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“Our lives begin to end the minute we

become silent about things that matter.”

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“40 years ago I found a Ruble in the street, since then I

didn’t raise my sight off the road. Right now I can count my properties like the wealthy people in the end

of their lives do. I have 2917 buttons, 34172 pins, 13 feathers, a pen, a handkerchief, a backache, a weak

vision and a miserable life.”

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“A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.”

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“As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which

course he will, he will be sure to repent.”

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“How could I lose faith in the justice of life especially when I know that the dreams of

those who sleep on feathers are not better than of those who sleep on the ground?”

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“I have never met a man so ignorant that I

couldn't learn something from him.”

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“Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness

is doing the right things.”

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“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from

where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other

way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so

intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”

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“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is

necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”

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“A man is but the product of his thoughts,

what he thinks, he becomes.”

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“About morals, I know only that what is

moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.”

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“When I sit at my table to write, I never know

what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back

waiting for it. I work every day.”

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“Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding

the problems of running a country.”

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“I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of

all titles, the character of an honest man.”

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“Women represent many questions, but only

god knows the answers.”

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“Ideas shape the course of history.”

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“However many holy words you read,

however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”

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“It is too difficult to think nobly when one

thinks only of earning a living.”

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“For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and

enhances the freedom of others.”

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“We build too many walls and not enough

bridges.”

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“It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five

minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.”

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“An education isn't how much you have

committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between

what you know and what you don't.”

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“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you

don't have, you will never, ever have enough.”

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“An unfortunate thing about this world is that

the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.”

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“I didn't make any money from my writing

until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.”

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“We learn from history that man can never

learn anything from history.”

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“Nothing is more despicable than respect

based on fear.”

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“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the

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“It's the possibility of having a dream come

true that makes life interesting.”

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“Let us be a little humble; let us think that the

truth may not perhaps be entirely with us.”

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“The great question that has never been

answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into

the feminine soul, is ''What does a woman want?” 100 of my favorite quotes- by Anjad Qusaibaty

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“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of

colored ribbon.”

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“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to

write it.”

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“It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of

the truth.”

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“How great God is.

As great as he is as lonely as I am.”

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“Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges

bones with another.”

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“I count him braver who overcomes his desires

than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”

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“I do not read advertisements. I would spend

all of my time wanting things.”

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“Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside

ourselves will affect us.”

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“If you don't stand for something you will fall

for anything.”

Malcolm X is also know as Malik Shabazz, the name he choose after he converted to Islam.

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“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

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“There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained

shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.”

Isabel Allende to her dyeing daughter (Eva Luna)

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“Nothing is more intolerable than to have to

admit to yourself your own errors.”

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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it

is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

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“Love is a serious mental disease.”

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“God grants victory to perseverance.”

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“A person needs a little madness, or else they

never dare cut the rope and be free.”

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“If you ask me what I came to do in this world,

I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”

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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse

yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.”

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“Life is really simple, but we insist on making

it complicated.”

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“All the great things are simple, and many can

be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

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“I despise those who do not cry. They are

either Titans or hypocrites, and in both cases they do not deserve respect.“

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“Only mothers can think of the future -

because they give birth to it in their children.”

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“All the forces in the world are not so

powerful as an idea whose time has come.”

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“Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive

discovery of our own ignorance.”

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“All of the great leaders have had one

characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much

else, is the essence of leadership.”

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“It opens the lungs, washes the countenance,

exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.”

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“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or

is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”

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“I do not agree with what you have to say, but

I'll defend to the death your right to say it.”

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“History is always written by the winners.

When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause

and disparage the conquered foe.”

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“All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator

for all I have not seen.”

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“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no

use for it.”

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“Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained

than lying to others.”

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“Dream no small dreams for they have no

power to move the hearts of men.”

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“Death is the golden key that opens the palace

of eternity.”

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“Let us live so that when we come to die even

the undertaker will be sorry.”

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“It's amazing. The moment you show cash,

everyone knows your language.”

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“A good husband is never the first to go to

sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.”

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“What we observe is not nature itself, but

nature exposed to our method of questioning.”

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“It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence

which could support this.”

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“My God, these folks don't know how to love -

- that's why they love so easily.”

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“The most beautiful things in the world are not seen nor touched. They are felt with the heart.”

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“Advertising is legalized lying.”

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“Most of the energy of political work is

devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.”

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“Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is

capable of feeling ultimate bliss.”

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“Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up

working for one.”

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“The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a

living soul.”

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“Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present

condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.”

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“If people knew how hard I have had to work

to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem wonderful at all.”

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“I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own

feelings.”

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“A leader does not deserve the name unless he

is willing occasionally to stand alone.”

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“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for,

forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than

the person who has nothing to eat.”

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“I remind myself every morning: Nothing I

say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening.”

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“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”

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“Love is patient, love is kind, love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way, it is not irritable or resentful, it does not rejoice in wrong doing, but rejoices in the truth. It

bears all things, believes in all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.”

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“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but

no one thinks of changing himself.”

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“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him

to make war at pleasure.”

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“If you don’t fulfill your own joy with your work-life plan, one day you’ll wake up in a

special kind of hell, where everyone is happy but you.”

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“Whether you think you can or think you

can't - you are right.”

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“Funeral by funeral, theory advances.”

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“Always forgive your enemies - nothing

annoys them so much.”

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“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be

better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”

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“Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then

for money.”

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“You shall find out how salt is the taste of

another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.”

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“Remain in me, and I will remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless

you remain in me.”

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“If you saw something bad happening, try to

change it by your hands, if you couldn’t, try by your tongue, if you couldn’t, change it inside your heart, and this is the least any faithful must do.”

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