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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx
Time
,
Book
,
Find
Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.
John Lennon
God
,
Loser
,
Thinks
There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Number
,
Clean
,
Shirts
We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.
Barack Obama
Leadership
,
Happen
,
Keep
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
Jackie Robinson
Life
,
Important
,
Lives
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
Che Guevara
Silence
,
Means
,
Argument
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Book
,
Days
,
Read
Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Yogi Berra
Won
,
Yours
,
Otherwise
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Game
,
Thought
,
Two
No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle
Choose
,
Existence
,
Condition
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
Joseph Campbell
Marriage
,
Sacrifice
,
Unity
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
Aristotle
Greatest
,
Useful
,
Virtues
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Aristotle
Friendship
,
Good
,
Men
Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.
Groucho Marx
Art
,
Tell
,
Water
It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good
,
Men
,
Passion
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
Leo Buscaglia
Love
,
Time
,
Death
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.
Plato
Happiness
,
Men
,
Best
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
Hedy Lamarr
Father
,
Loved
,
Equal
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard Shaw
Men
,
Silence
,
Hear
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
Religion
,
Respect
,
Beautiful
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
Aristotle
Live
,
Friends
,
Though
Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
Art
,
Lies
,
Taught
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life
,
Silence
,
Night
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau
Alone
,
Today
,
Wait
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.
Aristotle
Art
,
Lies
,
Taught
Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Erma Bombeck
Success
,
Fame
,
Confuse
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw
Life
,
Heart
,
Two
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Marcus Aurelius
Mean
,
Ambition
,
Idea
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
Nelson Mandela
Good
,
End
,
Leader
The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions.
Paulo Coelho
Mistakes
,
Two
,
Acting
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