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Clever Things People Say - 68
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Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.
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Crow, The
Sarah If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn. People die. But real love lives forever.
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Bertrand Russell
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
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Charles Fillmore
Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
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Kahlil Gibran
The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
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Aristotle
It is easy to fly into a passion--anybody can do that--but to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way--that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it.
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Dwight D Eisenhower
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
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B. J. Gupta
Organizations rarely progress in absence of well defined codes of conduct and system to ensure that these are strictly adhered to. Same is true for society.
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Q., Star Trek, the Next Generation, "Deja Q"
This is getting on my nerves, now that I have them.
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Edmund Burke
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Napoleon I
To Robert Fulton What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.
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Roosevelt, Eleanor
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -- that would be rest.
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