Mark Twain: Principles have no real force except when one...

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Quote: I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
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Yogi Berra
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I tell the kids,...

Quote: Though she be but little, she is fierce.
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William Shakespeare
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Though she be but...

Quote: Childishness? I think it’s the equivalent of never losing your sense of humor. I mean, there’s a certain something that you retain. It’s the equivalent of not getting so stuffy that you can’t laugh at others.
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Walt Disney
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Childishness? I think it’s...

Quote: Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man I meet...

Quote: For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself.
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George Orwell
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For the first time...

Quote: I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky things, but now I've got kids and responsibilities, so I can't be my own test pilot. That wouldn't be a good idea. But I definitely want to fly as soon as it's a sensible thing to do.
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Elon Musk
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I would like to...

Quote: I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
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Abraham Lincoln
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I can express all...

Quote: That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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That for which we...

Quote: Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
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Albert Einstein
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Somebody who only reads...

Quote: In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
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Oscar Wilde
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In England, an inventor...

Quote: My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feelings. My love for justice and the striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.
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Albert Einstein
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Quote: If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.
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Voltaire
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If God created us...

Quote: Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
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Aristotle
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Happiness is an expression...

Quote: To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.
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Winston Churchill
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To be really happy...

Quote: who wishes to fight must first count the cost
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Sun Tzu
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who wishes to fight...

Quote: The winds that sometimes take something we love, are the same that bring us something we learn to love.
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Bob Marley
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Quote: Live dangerously.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Quote: In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
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Oscar Wilde
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In judging of a...

Quote: If there is hope, it lies in the proles.
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George Orwell
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If there is hope,...

Quote: Ever make mistakes in life? Let’s make them birds. Yeah, they’re birds now.
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Bob Ross
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Ever make mistakes in...

Quote: Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
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C. S. Lewis
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Affliction is often that...

Quote: Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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Albert Einstein
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Education is what remains...

Quote: Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.
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Sun Tzu
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Build your opponent a...

Quote: I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.
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Elon Musk
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I think you should...

Quote: We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men... We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name.
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Maya Angelou
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We are braver and...

Quote: Stumbling is not falling.
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Malcolm X
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Stumbling is not falling....

Quote: When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
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Confucius
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When it is obvious...

Quote: There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
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Elon Musk
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There's a tremendous bias...

Quote: 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.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Any people anywhere, being...

Quote: Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Be sure you put...

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