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Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

Honore de Balzac

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

Jean Paul

Nothing can be othewise than it already is. What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgments about things.

Epictetus

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Ray Bradbury

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

Andrew Carnegie

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

Miriam Makeba

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Simone Weil

Poetry is the deification of reality.

Edith Sitwell

I took some time out for life.

James L. Brooks

What you are will show in what you do.

Thomas Edison

But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.

Bodhidharma

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

Michel de Montaigne

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

Mike Ditka

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Milton Friedman

It is good for society to have this introspection.

Jacques Verges

Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.

Ambrose Bierce

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Margaret Mead

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.

Jeremy Taylor

Don't gamble take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

Will Rogers

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Blaise Pascal

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

Steve Jobs

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

Bo Bennett

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Dante Alighieri

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

Stephen Hawking

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.

Charles Lamb

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Albert Einstein

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.

William Hazlitt

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

John Calvin

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Winston Churchill

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Benjamin Franklin

Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services.

Henry Ford

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Helen Keller

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

Andy Warhol

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Benjamin Franklin

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Edward de Bono

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

William Hazlitt

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Henry David Thoreau

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Emo Philips

One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.

Douglas MacArthur

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

Colin Powell

There is no avoiding war it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

Niccolo Machiavelli

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

Peter De Vries

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Robin Morgan

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

Rita Dove

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

John C. Maxwell

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Thomas Hobbes

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

Oprah Winfrey

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

Lena Horne

All those who offer an opinion on any doubtful point should first clear their minds of every sentiment of dislike, friendship, anger or pity.

Sallust

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

John Maynard Keynes

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Dylan Thomas

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phil Jackson

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

H.L. Menchen

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.

Christopher Dawson

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

Woody Allen

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.

Laurence J. Peter

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Will Rogers

Home is where the heart is.

Pliny the Elder

If one had but a single glance to give the world, one should gaze on Istanbul.

Alphonse de Lamartine

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

Orison Swett Marden

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

Joe Baca

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Alexander Hamilton

The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.

Pope John XXIII

If we are not free, no one will respect us.

Abdul Kalam

Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

Salvador Dali

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Aristotle Onassis

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

Nate Silver

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Niels Bohr

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

Henry Rollins

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

O. Henry

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Napoleon Bonaparte

He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Mother Teresa

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.

Tecumseh

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

Kurt Vonnegut

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Alan Watts

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

Logan P. Smith

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

Larry Wall

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Francis Bacon

I believe only in art and failure.

Jane Rule

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Ben Okri

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

Frida Kahlo

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Carl Jung

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Albert Einstein

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.

Candace Bushnell

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

Charles Spurgeon

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.

Tom Landry

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

Virginia Woolf

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

Joseph Stalin

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

Logan P. Smith

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Benjamin Franklin

Boredom - the desire for desires.

Leo Tolstoy

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Bob Dylan

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

E. M. Forster

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.

Socrates

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

Ernest Holmes

When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

Jean-Paul Sartre

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Thomas Carlyle

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Thomas Szasz

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Pablo Picasso

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Aldous Huxley

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Ovid

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Aristotle

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

E. O. Wilson

I read poetry to save time.

Marilyn Monroe

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

Deepak Chopra

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

Oliver Goldsmith

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Benjamin Disraeli

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederic Bastiat

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Elbert Hubbard

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

Victor Hugo

Death is not extinguishing the light it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

Rabindranath Tagore

Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

Margaret Walker

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Francois Rabelais

The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

Joan Miro

Form follows function.

Louis Sullivan

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

John Donne

Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

Julius Caesar

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

Josh Billings

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Maya Angelou

A professor is someone who talks in someone else's sleep.

W. H. Auden

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

Milton Friedman

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Albert Camus

Justice delayed is justice denied.

William E. Gladstone

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Henry David Thoreau

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

William Shakespeare

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

Mike Tyson

For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.

Alexander Pope

Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.

G. M. Trevelyan

While there's life, there's hope.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

John Burroughs

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Denis Waitley

One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.

William Feather

Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.

Alfred A. Montapert

A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady.

Thomas Moore

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Will Rogers

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

E. B. White

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Abdul Kalam

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.

Plutarch

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

Steven Seagal

Have the courage of your desire.

George Gissing

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

Sophocles

At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child's success is the positive involvement of parents.

Jane D. Hull

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Elbert Hubbard

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

George Bernard Shaw

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Jane Austen

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

William Butler Yeats

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

Saint Francis de Sales

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

Emma Goldman

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

Alexander Chase

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Henry David Thoreau

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

George Orwell

Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.

Dale Carnegie

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

Dan Gable

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Bruce Lee

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Robert Frost

It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.

Philip Green

Teach a child what is wise, that is morality. Teach him what is wise and beautiful, that is religion!

Thomas Huxley

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Henry Ford

Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Soren Kierkegaard

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

Valerie Bertinelli

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Mario Puzo

We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!

William Lloyd Garrison

Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end.

Helen Hayes

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

Dave Barry

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

Sun Tzu

I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.

Marilyn Monroe

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

Paulo Coelho

The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Havelock Ellis

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Thomas Jefferson

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Bo Bennett

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

Julie Walters

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

William James

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Mahatma Gandhi

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

Bill Cosby

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.

Marsha Sinetar

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