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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
Aristotle

Choose, Existence, Condition

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
Carl Sagan

Power, Science, Technology

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Martin Luther

Alone, Two, Dying

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Value, Number, Principle

All things truly wicked start from innocence.
Ernest Hemingway

Start, Truly, Innocence

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Themselves, Tendency

A mother becomes a true grandmother the day she stops noticing the terrible things her children do because she is so enchanted with the wonderful things her grandchildren do.
Lois Wyse

Mother, True, Children

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Aristotle

Good, Art, Thought

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?
Eminem

Successful, Everything, Succeed

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Jim Rohn

Maturity, Ability, Reap

Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night.
Michael Jordan

Single, May, Night

I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
Francis of Assisi

Work, God, Through

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
Aristotle

Nature, Eyes, Soul

Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.
Steve Jobs

Faith, Good, Technology

We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about.
Joseph Campbell

Forget, Alive, Value

Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
George Bernard Shaw

Why, Dream, Ask

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Lao Tzu

Overcome, Hardest

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
Dr. Seuss

Funny, Here, Everywhere

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King

Important, Feelings, Words

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.
Johnny Depp

Drunk, Laugh, Old

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.
Michael Jordan

Parents, Done, Times

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out.
Stephen Covey

Leadership, Discipline, Management

And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
Martin Scorsese

Live, Kindness, Compassion

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
Lance Armstrong

Hurt, Two, Losing

To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao Tzu

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon

Age, Trust, Best

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
Marianne Williamson

Life, Focus, Wrong

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe

Night, Dream, Escape

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
John Wooden

Faith, Peace, Mind

I don't digest things with my mind.
Marilyn Monroe

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