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"Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."

Samuel Johnson

 

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"When making your choices in life, do not forget to live."

Samuel Johnson

 

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"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."

Samuel Johnson

 

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"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

Immanuel Kant

 

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"When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters.
One represents danger, the other represents opportunity."

John F. Kennedy

 

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"Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."

John Maynard Keynes

 

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"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves."

Rudyard Kipling

 

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"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."

Rudyard Kipling

 

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"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvellously."

Henry Kissinger

 

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"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault."

Henry Kissinger

 

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One has to be very clear in choosing a friend, like a priceless book from a Big
Library.

Balasubramanian
Ambattur

 

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I have never felt lonesome, or in the least oppressed by a sense of solitude, but once, and that was a few weeks after I came to the woods, when, for an hour, I doubted if the near neighborhood of man was not essential to a serene and healthy life.
Henry David Thoreau

 

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"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection."

Dalai Lama

 

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"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans."

John Lennon

 

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"In the end it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years."

Abraham Lincoln

 

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"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Abraham Lincoln

 

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"You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time,
but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

Abraham Lincoln

 

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"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

Abraham Lincoln

 

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"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."

Niccolo Machiavelli

 

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"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."

W. Somerset Maugham

 

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"It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late."

W. Somerset Maugham

 

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"To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship."

Thomas Moore

 

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"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."

Isaac Newton

 

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"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

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"What doesn't kill you will make you stronger."

Friedrich Nietzche