One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Life   
Success   
Work   
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If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
Author:
Bill Clinton
Subject:
American Presidential Quotes   
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I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Humor   
American Presidential Quotes   
Military   
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Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
Author:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Subject:
Fate & Destiny   
Nature   
God   
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Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Author:
Khalil Gibran
Subject:
Wisdom   
Faith   
Doubt   
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Fear   
Women   
American Presidential Quotes   
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I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
War   
Peace   
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Author:
George Bernard Shaw
Subject:
Success   
Mistakes   
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Author:
Martin Luther King Jr.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
Conflict   
Revenge   
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I've been involved with blood donation since the 1980s because there is a critical need.
Author:
Donna Reed
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The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
Subject:
Friendship   
Knowledge   
Art   
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Author:
Aristotle
Subject:
Freedom   
Equality   
Government   
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The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them.
Author:
Socrates
Subject:
Life   
Honor   
Virtue   
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Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.
Author:
Albert Einstein
Subject:
Science   
Art   
World   
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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Author:
Andy Warhol
Subject:
Change   
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Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Freedom   
Government   
American Presidential Quotes   
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
Author:
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Subject:
Creativity   
Nature   
World   
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Ours not to reason why Ours but to do and die.
Author:
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Author:
Plato
Subject:
Children   
Parents   
Respect   
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
Subject:
Belief   
God   
American Presidential Quotes   
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