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The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Bertrand Russell

Great, Men, History

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison

Maturity, Often, Youth

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.
Peter Drucker

Work, Done, Difficult

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.
Lord Chesterfield

Everything, Give, Laziness

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton

Peace, Truth, War

I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
Dr. Seuss

End, Try, Start

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
Drew Barrymore

Love, Difficult, Break

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Charles Darwin

History, Long, Learned

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Wisdom, Mediocrity, Discourage

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.
Joel Osteen

Change, Wrong, Tell

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch

Powerful, Human, Fire

You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens.
Kirsten Dunst

Life, Love, Time

Be friendly to everyone. Those who deserve it the least need it the most.
Bo Bennett

Friendly, Everyone, Deserve

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.
Voltaire

Age, After, Energy

Overall I think that the most important thing is to have true friends, and always to stay true to yourself and never try to be somebody that you're not.
Diego Boneta

Yourself, True, Important

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.
Thomas Merton

Spiritual, True, Darkness

If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.
Emmet Fox

Love, Powerful, Person

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I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Truth, Mind, Nothing

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
Walt Disney

Job, Different, Difficult

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
Samuel Smiles

Life, Success, Struggle

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Aldous Huxley

Politics, War, Human

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.
Coco Chanel

Time, Women, Alone

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
Erma Bombeck

Women, Put, Kids

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life, Happy, End

Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.
Phyllis Diller

Home, Children, Parents

My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Work, Mind, Give

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
H. L. Mencken

Government, Moral, Often

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
Aleister Crowley

Absence, Complete, Talents

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Person, Happens, Sensible

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