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4,945 | 25,274 | The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it. | Hubert H. Humphrey | friendship |
9,667 | 41,552 | I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility. | James E. Rogers | legal |
8,184 | 58,354 | I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it. | Evan Glodell | relationship |
4,867 | 71,561 | We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | war |
5,093 | 36,536 | It's far too much to say that effective hoping is the only - or even the biggest - part of what it takes to succeed. If 14% of business productivity can be attributed to hope, that means 86% is dependent on raw talent, fickle business cycles, the quality of the product you're selling, and often pure, dumb luck. | Jeffrey Kluger | hope |
266 | 35,466 | If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home. | Venus Williams | home |
11,442 | 18,894 | But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10,000 copies I wasn't even in the running for failure! | Rupert Holmes | failure |
707 | 26,781 | Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, r... | Bradley Whitford | future |
7,246 | 29,985 | Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government. | Milton Friedman | government |
2,232 | 39,010 | The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. | Herodotus | knowledge |
9,068 | 71,732 | Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca | war |
11,478 | 27,131 | Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it. | Buffalo Bill | future |
2,836 | 71,174 | The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. | John Stuart Mill | truth |
7,183 | 53,311 | I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace. | Margaret Mitchell | peace |
5,500 | 23,263 | The secret of food lies in memory - of thinking and then knowing what the taste of cinnamon or steak is. | Jerry Saltz | food |
1,471 | 10,165 | People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication. | Yoko Ono | communication |
7,128 | 71,209 | While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward. | Al Gore | truth |
4,167 | 67,798 | My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it. | Justin Timberlake | teen |
4,286 | 39,949 | Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. | Carl Clinton Van Doren | knowledge |
5,497 | 48,774 | I'm going to get up every morning at 6:30 to work out. Then, when I've kept with it all week, I give myself something I really want, like a new handbag or a piece of jewelry I'm coveting. | Molly Sims | morning |
108 | 62,779 | People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that. | Max Cannon | society |
9,692 | 17,255 | The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal. | Leonard Boswell | equality |
5,361 | 34,487 | For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. | Dennis Prager | history |
6,589 | 8,797 | I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him. | John Shelton Reed | car |
9,676 | 10,499 | Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers. | Eric Schmidt | computers |
9,440 | 18,651 | The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed. | Nigel Farage | failure |
2,668 | 65,142 | If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague. | Wilhelm Keitel | strength |
6,154 | 21,944 | There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. | George S. Patton | fear |
5,641 | 75,488 | Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. | Jimmy Cannon | christmas |
6,966 | 6,450 | Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. | Babe Ruth | best |
6,329 | 44,568 | Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time. | Sean Penn | marriage |
9,214 | 23,736 | Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on ... | Garrett Hedlund | food |
10,245 | 19,499 | Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith. | Jon Meacham | faith |
2,381 | 41,940 | Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. | Wayne Dyer | life |
5,204 | 33,703 | We don't come to Canada for our health. We can think of other ways of enjoying ourselves. | Prince Philip | health |
287 | 3,824 | Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. | Louis Kahn | art |
9,933 | 59,364 | In both religion and science, some people are dishonest, exploitative, incompetent and exhibit other human failings. | Rupert Sheldrake | religion |
2,470 | 55,449 | You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed. | Nick Clegg | politics |
8,255 | 6,425 | There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. | Orison Swett Marden | best |
883 | 4,482 | As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. | Albrecht Durer | art |
1,669 | 4,396 | Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. | Walter Savage Landor | art |
8,573 | 52,875 | Never be in a hurry do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. | Saint Francis de Sales | peace |
11,531 | 18,993 | Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. | Montgomery Clift | failure |
1,020 | 71,106 | Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. | Laurence J. Peter | truth |
1,223 | 70,520 | Let's say a Soviet exchange student back in the '70s would go back and tell the KGB about people and places and things that he'd seen and done and been involved with. This is not really espionage there's no betrayal of trust. | Aldrich Ames | trust |
7,195 | 50,526 | If the king loves music, there is little wrong in the land. | Mencius | music |
8,425 | 46,600 | I've never had siblings, I didn't grow up in a big family it was just me and my single mom. And hectic family dysfunction was actually something that I craved. | Emmy Rossum | mom |
966 | 46,439 | My mom was a diabetic. Her sister was a diabetic, so I was already a candidate. | Angie Stone | mom |
6,090 | 30,861 | And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people. | Mitt Romney | great |
4,371 | 43,160 | Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. | Martin Luther King, Jr. | love |
811 | 49,306 | Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master, his philosophy, his movement, both physically and mentally, were very strong. | Jet Li | movies |
6,052 | 46,870 | My mom was a source of strength.She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all. | Gloria Estefan | mom |
8,220 | 62,399 | A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. | Phyllis Diller | smile |
7,081 | 8,975 | Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things. | Lauren Ambrose | car |
4,305 | 68,175 | Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. | Mark Twain | time |
8,942 | 32,800 | Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it. | Rachel Field | happiness |
2,723 | 20,189 | So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. | Will Rogers | family |
10,295 | 9,518 | Until we totally change the way we elect our leaders, until we remove private money from public campaigns, lying will be the de facto method of governance in this country. | Peter Schuyler | change |
4,192 | 50,186 | There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving. | Phylicia Rashad | movingon |
9,866 | 62,366 | But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper. | Michael Shermer | science |
9,015 | 17,186 | The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule. | James Bovard | equality |
1,241 | 61,693 | Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. | Ludwig Wittgenstein | science |
11,497 | 1,566 | As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good. | Tom Hanks | alone |
3,966 | 56,045 | My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience. | Jack Kevorkian | positive |
7,055 | 34,757 | I must admit, maybe I am a piece of history after all. | Alan Shepard | history |
6,304 | 35,303 | I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star. | Sojourner Truth | home |
9,042 | 23,428 | I always made my food congenial to my constitution, and my health was always excellent. | Giacomo Casanova | food |
8,782 | 32,328 | You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy. | John Mayer | happiness |
118 | 11,776 | Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character. | Loretta Young | courage |
10,459 | 11,764 | Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. | Plautus | courage |
9,892 | 58,038 | I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.' | Michael Ian Black | relationship |
5,365 | 50,794 | Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past? | David Byrne | music |
5,625 | 12,747 | My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.' | Dhani Harrison | dad |
7,125 | 53,866 | I try not to wear anything I have to fidget with - there's nothing worse than wearing something and pulling down the hem and re-adjusting the top. My pet hate is when girls wear those strapless dresses and spend the whole night yanking them up. | Sophie Ellis-Bextor | pet |
3,955 | 75,131 | Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool. | Eddie Van Halen | work |
451 | 71,875 | No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man's front embraces the whole universe. | Henry Miller | war |
7,497 | 41,970 | I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. | Grandma Moses | life |
6,771 | 21,559 | The world's most famous and popular language is music. | PSY | famous |
11,722 | 57,945 | The needs of babies and toddlers were constant and drained the life out my sense of self and my family's relationship with each other. | Mika Brzezinski | relationship |
11,817 | 59,892 | If you don't respect me you're not gonna get that respect back. | David Hasselhoff | respect |
2,147 | 44,557 | Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit. | Seamus Heaney | marriage |
7,264 | 12,037 | Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding. | Edward Albert | courage |
5,099 | 29,915 | The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. | Milton Friedman | government |
847 | 32,029 | We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. | George Bernard Shaw | happiness |
252 | 152 | Age is not important unless you're a cheese. | Helen Hayes | age |
9,597 | 9,065 | Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. | Arnold Bennett | change |
7,913 | 2,029 | Nothing amazes me anymore. | David Beckham | amazing |
5,762 | 48,457 | Chronic malnutrition, or the lack of proper nutrition over time directly contributes to three times as many child deaths as food scarcity. Yet surprisingly, you don't really hear about this hidden crisis through the morning news, Twitter or headlines of major newspapers. | Cat Cora | morning |
9,371 | 52,447 | Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness. | Thomas Huxley | patience |
1,200 | 15,342 | As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through. | Otto Dix | dreams |
876 | 71,496 | Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't. | Jeanette Winterson | truth |
1,672 | 37,932 | I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am. | Alessandro Nivola | imagination |
100 | 17,700 | Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. | W. H. Auden | experience |
248 | 63,137 | I don't have any well-developed philosophy about journalism. Ultimately it is important in a society like this, so people can know about everything that goes wrong. | Charles Kuralt | society |
2,508 | 53,562 | The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization. | Lytton Strachey | peace |
3,375 | 21,826 | The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. | Winston Churchill | fear |
11,413 | 45,311 | Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company. | George Washington | men |
7,927 | 16,555 | Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. | George Savile | education |
672 | 48,028 | In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home. | Leslie Banks | money |
7,106 | 14,511 | User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process. | Jesse James Garrett | design |
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