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e e cummings
To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
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Jane Austen
I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me that trouble of liking them.
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Charles Caleb Colton
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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David Brin, on power and corruption
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
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Plutarch
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
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Joseph Smith Jr.
The man who willeth to do well... we should extol his virtues and speak not of his faults behind his back.
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Linda R. Dominguez, How to Shine at Work, (McGraw-Hill)
Strength, courage and power do not exclude kindness, understanding and consideration. You can be strong and kind; you can be courageous and understanding; you can be powerful and considerate.
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, last words, 1762
It has all been very interesting.
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Richard Milhous Nixon
My view is that one should not break up a winning combination.
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Publilius Syrus
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
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Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
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