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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Good, Bad

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
Epictetus

Men, View, Disturbed

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
Garrison Keillor

Children, Nothing, Eyes

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
Margaret Mead

Women, Simple, Children

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.
Horace

Keep, Sure, Hear

People are what you make them. A scornful look turns into a complete fool a man of average intelligence. A contemptuous indifference turns into an enemy a woman who, well treated, might have been an angel.
Andre Maurois

Fool, Enemy, Woman

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
Harry S. Truman

Great, Men, Victory

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
Blaise Pascal

Faith, Against, Above

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Blaise Pascal

Wish, Write, Against

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.
Blaise Pascal

Place, Speak, Write

And I think both the left and the right should celebrate people who have different opinions, and disagree with them, and argue with them, and differ with them, but don't just try to shut them up.
Roger Ebert

Different, Try, Both

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
Quentin Tarantino

School, Tell, Film

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo Galilei

Beauty, Simple, Stand

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
Ovid

Love, Person, Wish

Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.
Anne M. Mulcahy

Person, Mean, Whole

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.
William Jennings Bryan

Faith, Money, God

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
E. O. Wilson

Great, Blessed, Debt

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
Edmund Burke

May, Before, Liberty

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.
Lee Iacocca

Good, Start, Rules

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Aleister Crowley

Nature, Drunk, Fighting

I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
Chuck Palahniuk

Time, Forget, Trying

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Horace Mann

Children, Means, Books

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne Frank

Heart, Hard, Words

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.
James Madison

Free, Opinions, Property

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To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
Charles de Montesquieu

Great, Become, Stand

There's really no point in having children if you're not going to be home enough to father them.
Anthony Edwards

Home, Father, Children

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel Proust

Time, Changes, Image

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
W. H. Auden

Both, Almost, Run

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Number, Fascism, Defined

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen

Live, Laugh, Turn

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