Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger
Franklin P. Jones
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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger
Franklin P. Jones
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"The greater the difficulty, .......................................
the more the glory in surmounting it."
Epicurus
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"It is better to debate a question without settling it........................
than to settle a question without debating it."
Jeseph Joubert
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"If you can count your money, ....................................
you don't have a billion dollars."
J. Paul Getty
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The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. .....................................
If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, ......................................
all must be tasted."
Chinese Proverb
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The trouble with America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose,................................................
but that it has turned to advertising copy.
Louis Kronenberger
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"Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. .......
Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees."
Boris Marshalov
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"Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, ....................
for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty."
Henri Frédéric Amiel, The Private Journal of Henri Frédéric Amiel
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"Fortitude is the marshal of thought, ........................................
the armor of the will, and the fort of reason."
Francis Bacon
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"The best minds are not in government............................................
If any were, business would steal them away.
Ronald Reagan
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"A real leader faces the music, ..................................
even when he doesn't like the tune."
Anon.
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There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behooves any of us,
To say anything about the rest of us.
Anon.
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. .................................
The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work
Thomas J. Watson
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Cherish youth, ...............................................
but trust old age.
American Indian Proverb, Pueblo
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"Everyone has a talent, ...................................................
what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads."
Erica Jong, The Craft of Poetry
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"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs................................
is to be ruled by evil men."
Plato
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A brave man dies but once, .................................
a coward many times.
American Indian Proverb, Iowa
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"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
Henry de Bracton, De Legibus, 1240
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"Men are like a deck of cards. ...........................................
You'll find the occasional king, but most are jacks."
Laura Swenson
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"The roots of education are bitter,..............................
but the fruit is sweet."
Aristotle
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"Genius is one percent inspiration ........................................
and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Thomas Alva Edison
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"Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, ..........................................
and the power to appreciate life."
Brigham Young
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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good,...............................
I am satisfied.
Alfred Nobel
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"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, ..................................
except one that you dare not start."
Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Journals
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