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1 Albert Camus - "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." Friends- "In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." Attitude- "Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others." Art (Resistance, Rebellion, and Death)- "Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is." Acceptance
2 George Gordon Byron - "Adversity is the first path to truth." Adversity- "For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd;And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!" Death- There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. Doubt- "I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves." Fate and Destiny- Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire,A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an age on every kiss; Nor then my soul should sated be, Still would I kiss and cling to thee: Nought should my kiss from thine dissever, Still would we kiss and kiss for ever; E'en though the numbers did exceedThe yellow harvest's countless seed; To part would be a vain endeavour: Could I desist?--ah! never--never. Kisses
3 "A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something." -Frank Capra ,Creativity
4 Alexis Carrel, Reflections on Life - "The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed." Revolution- "To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know." Responsibility- "All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people." Advice
5 "Humore is an affirmation of man's dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him." -Romain Cary , Humor
6 "Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart." -Pablo Casals ,Music
7 -Willa Cather - "Where there is great love, there are always wishes." Love- "Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again." Memory- "Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything." Solitude
8 "The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed." -Sebastian R. N. Chamfort , Laughter
9 "A market is the combined behavior of thousands of people responding to information, misinformation and whim." -Kenneth Chang , Investment
10 "Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself." -John Jay Chapman, Memories and Milestones ,Teaching
11 Lord Chesterfield, "Letter to his son", April 30, 1750 - "If you are not in fashion, you are nobody." Fashion- "An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult." Insult
12 G. K. Chesterton - People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. Arg & Deb- "Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity." Auth & Litr- "Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle." Bravery
13 "The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life." -Lydia Maria Child , Love
14 "The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: 'It's a girl.'" -Shirley Chisholm ,Equality
15 "To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day." -Sir Winston Churchill Destrt
16 "Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body." -Marcus Tullius Cicero ,Learning
17 "It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something." -Ornette Coleman , Mistake
18 "Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Advice
19 "Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never." -Charles Caleb Colton ,Love
20 "Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World." -Christopher Columbus , Journey
21 "Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." -Confucius , Change
22 "One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide." -Charles Horton Cooley, Life and the Student , Criticism
23 "History is a vast early warning system." -Norman Cousins , History24 Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. -Marie Curie, Fear
25 "The people who oppose your ideas are inevitably those who represent the established order that your ideas will upset." -Anthony D'Angelo ,Ideas 26 "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." -Dalai Lama , Religion
27 "Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die." -Salvador Dali , War
28 "There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court." -Clarence Darrow , Justic
29 "The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant." -Max De Pree, "Leadership Is an Art"
30 "The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults." -Peter De Vries ,Children
31 "The most heroic word in all languages is revolution." -Eugene Debs ,Revolution
32 "Love builds bridges where there are none." -R. H. Delaney ,Love
33 "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." -W. Edwards Deming , Change
34 "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." -Emily Dickinson ,Love
35 "We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end." -Benjamin Disraeli , Love
36 "Nurture your mind with great thoughts." Thought
37 "Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks." -John Donne, "The Bait" ,Love
38 Without a struggle, there can be no progress. -Frederick Douglas ,Advs
39 "We first make our habits, and then our habits make us." -John Dryden , Habit
40 "Beware the fury of a patient man." -John Dryden, patience
41 "Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people." -Andr?Dubus, Shyness
42 "We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory." & "Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it." -Georges Duhamel, Memory
43 Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best. -Tim Duncan , Basketball
44 "Recognition is the greatest motivator." -Gerard C. Eakedale , Motivational
45 "Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace." -Amelia Earhart ,Bravery
46 "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." -Thomas Alva Edison , Genius
47 Albert Einstein - "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Adversity- "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." Creativity- The important thing is not to stop questioning." Curiosity- "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." Imigination- "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." Problem- "The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax." Taxation
48 "In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled." -Paul Eldridge, Fact
49 "Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love." -­Marion Evans Cross,The Mill on the Floss, Anger
50 -Ralph Waldo Emerson - Accept your genius and say what you think & People only see what they are prepared to see. Acceptance- "He who has a thousand friendsHas not a friend to spare,While he who has one enemyShall meet him everywhere." Friends- "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us." Self Respect
51 I always read the last page of a book first so that if I die before I finish I'll know how it turned out. -Nora Ephron ,Literary
52 "Only the educated are free." -Epictetus , Education
53 "It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls." Death & "The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it." Glory -Epicurus
54 "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." -Desiderius Erasmus, perception
55 "You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea." -Medgar Evers ,Death
56 "Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all." -Sam Ewig ,Work
57 "The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder." -Frederick W. Faber, Talent
58 "A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B." -Fats Domino ,Work
59 "To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power." -Jane Fonda ,Revolution
60 "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." -E. M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy , Loyality
61 "Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead." -Gene Fowler ,Auth & Writ
62 "News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day." -Gene Fowler, Skyline, 1961 ,Media
63 "To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all." -Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvester Bernard, 1881 ,Imagination
64 "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." -Anatole France ,Ambition
65 "A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him." -Brendan Francis ,Listening
66 "No man can discover his own talents." -Brendan Francis , Talent
67 "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes." -Victor Frankl ,Freedom
68 "The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." -Ben Franklin ,Happiness
69 Benjamin Franklin - "Time is money." Efficiency- "Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other." Experiance - "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals." Self-love - "You may delay, but time will not." Time
70 "Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand." -Frederick the Great ,Religion
71 "Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." -Anna Freud ,Creativity
72 "Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" -Erich Fromm ,Love
73 -Robert Frost - "Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." -Robert Frost Education- "The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office" Thought - "By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day." Bureacracy
74 "In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects." -J. W. Fulbright , Democracy
75 "Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live." -Margaret Fuller ,Work
76 "It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts." -Millard Fuller ,Life and Actions
77 -Thomas Fuller "One that would have the fruit must climb the tree." Effort "All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer." patience
78 "Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue." -John Kenneth Galbraith, Virtue
79 "Image creates desire. You will what you imagine." -J. G. Gallimore ,Intention
80 Indira Gandi- "We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose." Action(s)- "Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away." Action - "Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic." Patriotism - You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. Quoted by Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 1982 ,Peace- "The power to question is the basis of all human progress." Progress- "There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there." Work
81 Mahatma Gandhi- "The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within." Acceptance - "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Change - To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith. November 24, 1946, Cowardice/Weakness - "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes." Freedom - "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." N.B.: This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms. An Autobiography ,Gun Control - "Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." Live - "Where there is love there is life." Love - "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Progress- "Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress." Progrss - "It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence." Violence
82 "For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul." -Judy Garland ,Love
83 "In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters." -Paul Gauguin ,Art
84 "Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality." -Jules de Gautier ,Imagination
85 "Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way." -Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) ,Journeys86 "Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." -David Lloyd George ,Ambition
87 -J. Paul Getty - "Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells." Money - "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." Wealth - "Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?" Work
88 Kahlil Gibran- "Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood." "The Visit of Wisdom" Ambition - "Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed." "A Handful of Sand on the Shore" ,Art- "Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow." "A Handful of Sand on the Shore" , Attitude- "The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers." "A Handful of Sand on the Shore" - "Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers." "Beauty" - "You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth." Children - "We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." Choice- "Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people." "The Voice of the Poet" Death- "All that spirits desire, spirits attain." "The Poet of Baalbek" Desires - "Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain." "The Voice of the Poet" Difficulty- "Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever." "The Voice of the Poet" Faith - "Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do." Generosicy - "Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds." "A Handful of Sand on the Shore" Knowledge- "I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." Learning - "Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes." Ligacy - "Life without liberty is like a body without spirit." "The Vision" Liberty - "Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit." Love- "If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved." "The Voice of the Poet" Pacifism- "What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?" Patriotism - "The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom." People- "The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is." Perception- "A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland." "The Poet of Baalbek" Poetry- "We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble." "Children of Gods, Scions of Apes" ,Power- "Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be." Progress- "Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love." Progress- "Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms." "The Philosophy of Logic" , Reflection- "If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul." Religion- "Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife." - "I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit." - Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert. Revolution- "What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?" "The Captive King" Shyness- "I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here; and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end." "Anthem of Humanity" Seoul- "Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration." Time- "Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being." War- "Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation." Wealth- "Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking." "My Soul Is Heavy Laden with its Fruits" - "Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents." "Between Reality and Fantasy" Wisdom - "Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy." Work
89 "Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness." -Mike Gill, Money
90 "Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born." -Gary Mark Gilmore ,Death
91 "One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." -Arnold Glasgow ,Leadership
92Ellen Glasgow, Letters of Ellen Glasgow - "I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end." Advice- "Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted." Violence
93 "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre." -Gail Godwin ,Education
94 "No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure." -Emma Goldman,Education
95 "If you have a lemon, make lemonade." -Howard Gossage ,Hope
96 "Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment." -Baltasar Gracian, The Oracle ,Ability
97 "If wishes were horses, beggars would ride." -James Halliwell, Nursery Rhymes of England, 1844 ,Desires 98 Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. -Dag Hammarskj? Journey
99 "There is only one terminal dignity -- love." -Helen ,Love100 "Music is the soul of language." -Max Heindel ,Music