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• If women could go into your Congress, I think justice would soon be done to the Indians.

  Sarah Winnemucca

  Women, Thinking, Justice

  Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1883). “Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims”, p.53, University of Nevada Press

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• Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

  Martin Luther

  Hope, Benefits, World

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.146

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• The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

  Susan Glaspell

  Knowledge, Past, Men

  Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• To lead people, walk beside them ... As for the best leaders, the people do not notice their existence. The next best, the people honor and praise. The next, the people fear; and the next, the people hate ... When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves!

  Laozi

  Leadership, Hate, People

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• What have I done? What horrid crime committed?
  To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.

  Colley Cibber

  Life, Crime, Worst

  Colley Cibber (1760). “The careless husband; The rival fools; The lady's last stake; Richard III”, p.334

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• No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Writing, Skills

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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• There's nothing you can do that can't be done, Nothing you can sing that can't be sung, Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game, It's easy...
  All you need is love.

  John Lennon

  Life, Song, Games

  "Song: All You Need Is Love (Magical Mystery Tour)". July 7, 1967.

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• I do not love thee less for what is done,
  And cannot be undone. Thy very weakness
  Hath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth
  My love will have a sense of pity in it,
  Making it less a worship than before.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Weakness, Worship

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

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• O Love, O great god Love, what have I done,
  That thou shouldst hunger so after my death?
  My heart is harmless as my life's first day:
  Seek out some false fair woman, and plague her
  Till her tears even as my tears fill her bed.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Life, Heart, Tears

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.656, Delphi Classics

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• Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

  Mick Jagger

  Music, Courses

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• I feel very, very gratified when people are complimentary to what I have done or appreciated it with sincerity... It makes me feel that maybe I did do something that was proper and that was right.

  Elvin Jones

  Music, People, Jazz

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• All that I've played, all that I've sung, I couldn't have done any other way.

  Jack Teagarden

  Music, Way, Jazz

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• Is it so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light
  in the sky, to have loved, to have thought, to have done?

  Matthew Arnold

  Nature, Light, Sky

  'Empedocles on Etna' (1852) act 1, sc. 2, l. 397

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• Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Memorable, Men, Poetry

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.99

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• When a man has done me an evil turn once, I don't like to give him the opportunity to do so twice.

  John A. Macdonald

  Opportunity, Men, Evil

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• The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Years, Wish

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• At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

  Robert Frost

  Relationship, Money, Issues

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.402, Harvard University Press

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• I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

  Mark Twain

  Biblical, Men, Religion

  Mark Twain (2016). “Mark Twain in Eruption (Abridged, Annotated)”, p.177, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought
  The better fight, who single hast maintain'd
  Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.

  John Milton

  Truth, Honesty, Fighting

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 6, l. 29

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• In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it - not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it.

  W. H. Auden

  Success, Work, Thinking

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• I was proud to work with the great Gershwin, and I would have done it for nothing, which I did.

  Howard Dietz

  Work, Proud, Gershwin

  Howard Dietz (1974). “Dancing in the dark”

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• In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!

  Mark Twain

  Work, Mean, Loss

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!

  Charles Dickens

  Happiness, Blessed, Home

  Charles Dickens (1850). “Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observations of David Copperfield the Younger”, p.86

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• Jane Fonda, who divided her life into three acts, decided after her sixtieth birthday that she was now facing the final act, and came to the following conclusion: "I thought to myself, well if that's the case and if what I'm scared of isn't death, but getting to the end with regrets, then I've got to figure out what would be the things that I would regret when I got to the last act if I hadn't done them or achieved them by then. And they were: having an intimate relationship and having made a difference."

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Regret, Business, Intimate Relationships

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.130, Penguin

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• Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Business, Work, Hands

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.63, Penguin

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