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Famous People Quotes
Margot Fonteyn
Life forms
illogical patterns.
It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as
they fly by,
for who knows whether any of them will ever return?
~Margot
Fonteyn~
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Minor things can become moments of great revelation
when
encountered for the first time.
~ Margot
Fonteyn ~
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Take your work seriously, but never yourself.
~ Margot
Fonteyn ~
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Aristotle
A true friend
is one soul in two bodies.
~ Aristotle
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All human
actions have one or more of these seven causes:
chance, nature, compulsions,
habit, reason, passion, desire.
~ Aristotle
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Bashfulness
is an ornament to youth,
but a reproach to old age.
~ Aristotle
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Dignity
consists not in possessing honours,
but in the consciousness that we deserve
them.
~ Aristotle
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who
conquers his enemies;
for the hardest victory is over self.
~ Aristotle
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In a
democracy the poor will have more power than the rich,
because there are more of
them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
~ Aristotle
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Henri Frederic Amiel
Action is
only coarsened thought;
thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
Henri
Frederic Amiel
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion
to the degree of
truth which it contains.
Henri
Frederic Amiel
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Analysis kills spontaneity.
The grain once ground into flour
springs and germinates no more.
Henri
Frederic Amiel
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Blessed be
childhood, which brings down something of heaven
into the
midst of our rough earthliness.
Henri
Frederic Amiel
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Charm is the quality in others
that makes us more satisfied
with ourselves.
Henri
Frederic Amiel
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Laozi
A leader is
best when people barely know he exists,
not so good when people obey and acclaim
him,
worst when they despise him.
But of a good leader, who talks little, when
his work is done,
his aim fulfilled, they will say, 'We did this ourselves.'
Laozi
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For the wise man looks into space
and he knows there is no
limited dimensions.
Laozi
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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither
need you do anything but be yourself.
Laozi
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Karl Marx
Experience
praises the most happy
the one who made the most people happy.
Karl Marx
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For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object
to be
manipulated by him.
Karl Marx
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From each
according to his abilities,
to each according to his needs.
Karl Marx
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Helen Keller
Alone we can
do so little;
together we can do so much.
Helen Keller
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Although the world is full of suffering,
it is also full of
the overcoming of it.
Helen Keller
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As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind,
so love with
its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller
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As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own
feather,
so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
Helen Keller
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We could
never learn to be brave and patient,
if there were only joy in the world.
Helen Keller
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We may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
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What a blind
person needs is not a teacher
but another self.
Helen Keller
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What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.
Helen Keller
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Mother Teresa
Be
faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
Mother Teresa
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Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,
I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty
than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa
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Good works
are links that form a chain of love.
Mother Teresa
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I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God
who is sending a love letter to the world.
Mother Teresa
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I have found
the paradox, that if you love until it hurts,
there can be
no more hurt, only more love.
Mother Teresa
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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa
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Jesus said
love one another. He didn't say love the whole world.
Mother Teresa
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Love is a
fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.
Mother Teresa
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Bertrand Russell
Aristotle
could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men,
by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he
counted.
Bertrand
Russell
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Awareness of
universals is called conceiving,
and a
universal of which we are aware is called a concept.
Bertrand
Russell
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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist,
since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the
fear of it.
Bertrand
Russell
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I've made an
odd discovery.
Every time I
talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility.
Yet when I
talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
Bertrand
Russell
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Indignation
is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Bertrand
Russell
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It has been said that man is a rational animal.
All my life I have been searching for evidence which could
support this.
Bertrand
Russell
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