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A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do - namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

America

5.0 · 58 votes · 122 reads

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Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.

Critics

140 reads

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Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Friendship

5.0 · 54 votes · 132 reads

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Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.

Happiness

5.0 · 30 votes · 186 reads

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I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Fear

3.1 · 22 votes

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Virtues
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.
4.6 · 58 votes · 67 reads
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Nature
If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
3.0 · 43 votes · 23 reads
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Society
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
3.7 · 15 votes · 144 reads
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Countries
It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.
3.9 · 41 votes · 103 reads
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Virtues
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
3.3 · 24 votes · 171 reads
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Thought and Reason
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
4.4 · 8 votes · 63 reads
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Various
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
4.4 · 24 votes · 35 reads
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Nature
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
5.0 · 38 votes · 94 reads
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Nature
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
4.3 · 58 votes · 89 reads
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Various
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
4.0 · 44 votes · 109 reads
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Feelings
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
3.2 · 56 votes · 74 reads
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Thought and Reason
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
3.7 · 57 votes · 1 reads
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Government and Politics
Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.
4.7 · 39 votes · 104 reads
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Thought and Reason
Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own chil
4.9 · 59 votes · 34 reads
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Thought and Reason
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
4.8 · 35 votes · 168 reads
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Nature
The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.
4.2 · 15 votes · 182 reads
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Art and Culture
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
4.4 · 57 votes · 156 reads
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Thought and Reason
Understanding is a two-way street.
4.2 · 48 votes · 164 reads
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Society
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
4.1 · 5 votes · 55 reads
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Feelings
You always admire what you really don't understand.
3.4 · 55 votes · 27 reads
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Feelings
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.” You must do the thing you thi
4.1 · 61 votes · 55 reads
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Various
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.
3.5 · 22 votes · 62 reads
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Feelings
You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.
3.1 · 49 votes · 146 reads
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