"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?"
- Benjamin Franklin
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"Faith crosses every border and touches every heart in every nation."
- George W Bush
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"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it."
-James Boswell, biographer and lawyer (29 Oct 1740-1795)
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"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
-Desiderius Erasmus, philosopher, humanist, and theologian (28 Oct 1466-1536)
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"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."
-Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US president (27 Oct 1858-1919)
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"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth."
- Chanakya
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"Words are a mirror of their times. By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest in a given period, we can form a fairly accurate impression of the chief preoccupations of society at that time and the points at which the boundaries of human endeavour are being advanced."
-John Ayto, lexicographer (b. 1949)
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"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."
- Wayne Dyer
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"I've come to learn that my initial investment is more about the person versus the product that I am buying into. I've also learned that I really do enjoy giving worthy people an opportunity of a lifetime."
-Daymond John
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"If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics."
- Will Rogers
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"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."
- Maya Angelou
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"There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity"
- Anne Frank
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"Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
-John Maynard Keynes
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"It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts."
- Carl Jung
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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
-Lewis Mumford, writer and philosopher (19 Oct 1895-1990)
-Lewis Mumford, writer and philosopher (19 Oct 1895-1990)
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"Pursue your goals even in the face of difficulties, and convert adversities into opportunities."
- Dhirubhai Hirachand Ambani
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
- Ed Markey
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Words are not created by academics in universities and suchlike, rather it is the man in the street who does so. Dictionary compilers almost always recognise them too late and embalm them in alphabetical order, in many cases when they have lost their original meaning.
-Gabriel García Márquez, novelist and journalist, Nobel laureate (1927-2014)
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"The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."
-Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (15 Oct 1844-1900)
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"Money is always eager and ready to work for anyone who is ready to employ it."
- Idowu Koyenikan
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"Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success."
- Abdul Kalam
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"Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines."
-Madeleine M. Kunin
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"I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general and 34th president (1890-1969)
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Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling, and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.
-Bill Bryson, author (b. 1951)
-Bill Bryson, author (b. 1951)
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"Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do.
Nothing to kill or die for,
And no religion, too.
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace."
-John Lennon, musician (9 Oct 1940-1980)
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"You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting."
- Meryl Streep
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"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it."
- Vincent Van Gogh
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"It doesn't matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do."
- Robert Fulghum
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"Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious."
- Napoleon Hill
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"Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth."
- Edmud Burke
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It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy.
-George H. Lorimer, editor (6 Oct 1867-1937)
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"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
- Steve Jobs
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"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
-Mohandas K. Gandhi (2 Oct 1869-1948)
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For there is no friend like a sister /
In calm or stormy weather; /
To cheer one on the tedious way, /
To fetch one if one goes astray, /
To lift one if one totters down, /
To strengthen whilst one stands.
-Christina Rossetti, poet (1830-1894)
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"What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage."
- Laura Linney
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"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
-Truman Capote, author (30 Sep 1924-1984)
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