"The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it."
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"Don't put the cart before the horse."Comment
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"Do whatever comes your way as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people and other things that are interesting. Put a good deal of thought into happiness that you are able to give."Comment
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"Don't shut the barn door after the horse is gone."Comment
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"The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy."Comment
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"Don't shut the gate after the horse has bolted."Comment
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"Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said."Comment
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"Don't spit into the wind."Comment
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"I tried to find Him on the Christian cross, but He was not there; I went to the Temple of the Hindus and to the old pagodas, but I could not find a trace of Him anywhere. I searched on the mountains and in the valleys but neither in the heights nor in the depths was I able to find Him. I went to the Caaba in Mecca, but He was not there either. I questioned the scholars and philosophers but He was beyond their understanding. I then looked into my heart and it was there where He dwelled that I saw Him; He was nowhere else to be found."Comment
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"Education, which was at first made universal in order that all might be able to read and write, has been found capable of serving quite other purposes. By instilling nonsense it unifies populations and generates collective enthusiasm."Comment
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"Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, to one's affections, and one's inner happiness."Comment
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"Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character."Comment
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"I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement."Comment
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"The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them."Comment
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"The ability to relate and to connect, sometimes in odd and yet striking fashion, lies at the very heart of any creative use of the mind, no matter in what field or discipline."Comment
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"Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one."Comment
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"The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company."Comment
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"An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling."Comment
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"You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you."Comment
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"Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed."Comment
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"It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him."Comment
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"A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage."Comment
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"Someone asked Sophocles, "How do you feel now about sex? Are you able to have a woman? He replied, "Hush man; most gladly indeed am I rid off it all, as though I had escaped from a mad and savage master."Comment
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"The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful."Comment
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"Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin."Comment
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"There is no such thing, at this date of the world's history, in America, as an independent press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalists is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes."Comment
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"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls."Comment
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"After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement."Comment
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"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."Comment
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"Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else."Comment
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"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future."Comment
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"Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."Comment
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"I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can you can't do any better."Comment
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"I have a prejudice against people who print things in a foreign language and add no translation. When I am the reader, and the other considers me able to do the translating myself, he pays me the quite a nice compliment-- but if he would do the translating for me I would try to get along without the compliment. (A Tramp Abroad,1880)"Comment
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"Yesterday's failures are today's seeds That must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest Tomorrow's success."Comment
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"If an artist is not able to commit himself totally to his art, how can he expect the world to do so?"Comment
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"For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference."Comment
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"Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best."Comment
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