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Old age has deformities enough of its own.
It should never add to them the deformity of vice.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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The inherent vice of capitalism
is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill
As far as I'm concerned, I prefer
silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
- Albert Einstein
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.
- Benjamin Franklin
If the children are untaught,
their ignorance and vices will in future life
cost us much dearer in their consequences
than it would have done in their
correction by a good education.
- Thomas Jefferson
It has been my experience that folks who
have no vices, have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
He has all of the virtues I dislike,
and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is not the easy or convenient life
for which I search,
but life lived to the edge
of all that I may be.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole
for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast
and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat -
dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty,
the contemplation of mystery,
or the search of truth or perfection
is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession
of such days is fatal to human life.
- Lewis Mumford
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
Be an Original, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat, dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone
who is more deserving of your
love and affection than you are yourself,
and that person is not to be found anywhere.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe
deserve your love and affection.
- The Buddha
Who made the rule that life has to be so serious?
One would think that "life is serious" had been engraved
upon stone tablets to judge from how most lives are lived.
Get a life, smile broadly, sing loudly,
paint your rooms in bold colors,
search every rabbit hole for a magical white bunny,
have caviar for breakfast and oatmeal for dinner,
wear a purple coat with a red hat - dance lightly with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We will bankrupt ourselves in
the vain search for absolute security.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The search after the great men is the dream of youth,
and the most serious occupation of manhood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is curious to observe what different
ideals of happiness people cherish,
and in what singular places they look
for this well-spring of their life.
Many look for it in the hoarding of riches,
some in the pride of power,
and others in the achievements of art and literature;
a few seek it in the exploration of their own minds,
or in search for knowledge.
- Helen Keller
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing,
and should be treated with caution.
- J. K. Rowling
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
Fear defeats more people than
any other one thing in the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein
Competition has been shown to be useful
up to a certain point and no further,
but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today,
begins where competition leaves off.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
- Helen Keller
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anger is a killing thing:
it kills the man who angers,
for each rage leaves him less than he had been before -
it takes something from him.
- Louis L'Amour
A quotation is a handy thing to have about,
saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead
Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi
I teach one thing and one only:
that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
- The Buddha
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -
nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it.
Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return.
Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
- Epictetus
The most difficult thing is the decision to act,
the rest is merely tenacity.
The fears are paper tigers.
You can do anything you decide to do.
You can act to change and control your life;
and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
- Amelia Earhart
The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -
an instruction book didn't come with it.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
It's the little things you do
that can make a big difference.
What are you attempting to accomplish?
What little thing can you do today
that will make you more effective?
You are probably only one step away from greatness.
- Bob Proctor
We tell lies when we are afraid...
afraid of what we don't know,
afraid of what others will think,
afraid of what will be found out about us.
But every time we tell a lie,
the thing that we fear grows stronger.
- Williams Tad
Confidence is the most important thing,
more important than gold or currency.
- Wen Jiabao
"Be Prepared."
"Be prepared for what?"
"Why, for any old thing."
- Robert Baden-Powell,
the founder of Scouting.
[as quoted in the Boy Scout Handbook]
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
The truth of the matter is that
you always know the right thing to do.
The hard part is doing it.
- Norman Schwarzkoff
Nothing is more valuable than your self respect.
When you lose respect for yourself, you have lost everything.
Whatever it takes, and whoever you upset,
do what you know - deep inside - is the right thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The nature of life is to be
a study of contrasts: joy/sadness, full/empty.
The Main Thing is to Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed
is more important than any other one thing.
- Abraham Lincoln
Do the thing you fear,
and death of fear is certain.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.
- Bertrand Russell
Sometimes it is better to lose
and do the right thing
than to win and do the wrong thing.
- Tony Blair
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
It is against everything we stand for to take a human life.
Making an exception to that code is a bleak thing.
- Sam, from Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
It is the only thing.
- Albert Schweitzer
If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing.
- Anatole France
To know how to free oneself is nothing;
the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
- Andre Gide
Whenever you do a thing,
act as if all the world were watching.
- Thomas Jefferson
The thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
To have a right to do a thing
is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Every time you smile at someone,
it is an action of love,
a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
- Mother Teresa
Take a deep breath and do the difficult thing first.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you were a warrior,
you would know that the worst thing
one can do is confront human beings directly.
- Carlos Castaneda
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