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Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Politics, Mean, Sometimes

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.
William Shakespeare

Nothing, Together, Wild

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

Good, Aim, Simply

Be not simply good - be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Else, Lose, Gain

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo

Through, Kiss, Compliment

You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius

Learning, Book, Cannot

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership, Art, Someone

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Person, Lazy

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Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.
Julia Child

Find, Keep, Interested

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.
Coco Chanel

Live, Fashion, Ideas

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
Dale Carnegie

Sleep, Worry, Lying

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Beauty, Sympathy

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Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
Albert Schweitzer

May, Wonderful, Imitate

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
Leonardo da Vinci

Life, Simple, Pretty

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
Mitch Hedberg

Great, Two, Eat

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
Thomas A. Edison

Trying, Hell, Here

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Sophia Loren

Beauty, Eyes, Inside

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Insanity, Rule, Nations

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Edgar Allan Poe

True, Saying, Silence

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Good, Yourself

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
Warren Buffett

Life, Long, Idea

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
Aristotle

Life, Happiness, Power

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle

Nature, Marvelous

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, May, Through

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

Anger, Him, Before

If there's not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.
Eminem

Life, Boring, Songs

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Learning, Heartily, Prayed

You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you.
Alan Watts

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.
John Lennon

Love, Peace, Thinking

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