Excerpts of Citations
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As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
~Gandhi
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Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
~Confucius
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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet...
~Hugh White
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.
~D.H. Lawrence
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Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a so...
~Harry S. Truman
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Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
~William Shakespeare
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I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high.
~Wilbur Wright
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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
~Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
~David Lloyd George
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the n...
~Eleanor Roosevelt
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If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
~Kahlil Gibran
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Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes.
~Kenneth Hildebrand
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It is never too late to be what you might have been.
~George Eliot
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Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos - the trees, the clouds, everything.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
~Sallust
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Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
~Samuel Johnson