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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
George Bernard Shaw

May, Believes, Acts

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso

Life, Work, Happiness

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.
Alexander Pope

Today, Saying, Words

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Voltaire

Father, Child, Sit

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
Marcus Aurelius

Future, Today, Same

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
George Bernard Shaw

Difficult, Question, Answer

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Love, Long, Hide

A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
Sigmund Freud

Nor, Number, Existence

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
George Bernard Shaw

Human, Afraid, Beings

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy

Change, Time, Everything

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wind, Sailing, Favorable

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato

Knowledge, Learning, Ignorant

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
George Bernard Shaw

Care, Office, Trial

The life of an uneducated man is as useless as the tail of a dog which neither covers its rear end, nor protects it from the bites of insects.
Chanakya

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw

Marriage, Thought, Dangerous

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George Washington

Experience, Real, Pride

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus

Truth, Nothing, Passion

Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
Bertrand Russell

Liberty, Tyranny, Exercise

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Today, Off, Point

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
Bill Cosby

Business, Wisdom, Mistakes

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Albert Camus

Music, Art, Understand

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.
Steve Jobs

Design, Together, Soul

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon Hill

Food, Care, Greatest

Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Malice, Explained, Ascribe

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
Barack Obama

Mom, Heart, Gay

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.
George Washington

May, Walk, Ground

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.
Douglas Adams

Money, Integrity, Real

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George Orwell

Men, Duty, Obvious

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.
Napoleon Hill

Judge, Person, Him

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus

Friendship, Truth, Nothing

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