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He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

Good, Eyes, Dead

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
Vince Lombardi

Good, Heart, Greatest

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein

Age, Mind, Thinking

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert Einstein

Forget, Fate, Interest

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C. Maxwell

Smart, Strong, Mistakes

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Him, Free, Guilt

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.
Franz Schubert

Happy, True, Wife

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha

Mind, Enemy, Evil

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.
Ronald Reagan

Job, Depression, Lose

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
Thomas Jefferson

Experience, Rich, Poor

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha

Woman, Person, Between

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu

Work, Best, Done

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln

Work, Him, Down

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X

Respect, Someone, Him

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

Change, Mind, Won

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde

Truth, Person, Him

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Success, Dreams

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway

Time, Drunk, Sometimes

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Muhammad Ali

Life, Same, Wasted

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde

Good, Friends, Cannot

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
Robert A. Heinlein

Life, Good, Society

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle

Self, Him, Victory

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
William Shakespeare

Father, Laugh, Son

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln

Thoughts, Show, Books

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
Abraham Lincoln

Him, Liberty, Same

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.
Abraham Lincoln

Live, Him, Place

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Abraham Lincoln

Great, Men, True

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh

Love, Mother, Father

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon

Love, Peace, Someone

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