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• I think that failure is just as important as success. In a way, failure is a kind of success if you can look at it in the right way, if you can accept it and enjoy it in the right way.

  Margaret Cho

  Leadership, Thinking, Important

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• To be honest, to be kind-to earn a little and to spend a little less, to make upon the whole a family happier for his presence, to renounce when that shall be necessary and not be embittered, to keep a few friends but these without capitulation-above all, on the same grim condition to keep friends with himself-here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude and delicacy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Honesty, Kindness

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “A Christmas Sermon”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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• In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and are therefore to be feared in proportion, as they are more powerful than their fellows.
  Yet minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Powerful, Men

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.226, Commodius Vicus

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• There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

  Lytton Strachey

  Life, Great Men, Deals

  Lytton Strachey remarks to Dora Carrington, March 23, 1917.

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• There are many kinds of richness, and the man who is rich because of money is the lowest as far as the categories of richness are concerned. Let me say it in this way: the man of wealth is the poorest rich man. Looked at from the side of the poor, he is the richest poor man. Looked at from the side of a creative artist, of a dancer, of a musician, of a scientist, he is the poorest rich man. And as far as the world of ultimate awakening is concerned he cannot even be called rich.

  Rajneesh

  Money, Men, Artist

  Rajneesh Osho (2003). “The World Beyond Time”, p.38, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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• Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.

  Matthew Bellamy

  Music, Dark, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The human attitude of which classical music is the expression is always the same; it is always based on the same kind of insight into life and strives for the same kind of victory over blind change. Classical music as gesture signifies knowledge of the tragedy of the human condition, affirmation of human destiny, courage, cheerful serenity.

  Hermann Hesse

  Music, Attitude, Destiny

  "The Glass Bead Game". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1943.

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• It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'

  Tupac Shakur

  Music, Rose, Scratches

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• Mann
  There are two kinds of people: those who GIVE energy and those who
  DRAIN energy.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Parenting, Two, People

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• That kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Hate, Patriotism, Nations

  Sylvia's Lovers ch. 1 (1863)

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• There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking of is not at the mercy of history's rule, nor is it a passive surrender to the status quo. The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one -- an activity that occurs most naturally, most often in the reading/writing world we live in. Accessible as it is, this particular kind of peace warrants vigilance.

  Toni Morrison

  Peace, War, Reading

  Toni Morrison (2007). “The Dancing Mind”, p.6, Vintage

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• We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.

  Agnes Repplier

  Peace, Struggle, Ubuntu

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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• Doeg, though without knowing how or why,
  Made still a blundering kind of melody;
  Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin,
  Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in;
  Free from all meaning whether good or bad,
  And in one word, heroically mad.

  John Dryden

  Knowing, Mad, Poetry

  John Dryden (1873). “Poetical Works: Containing Original Poems, Tales, and Translations”, p.69

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• Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues."

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Character, Divorce, Dope

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.32, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• So we must lay it down that the association which is a state exists not for the purpose of living together but for the sake of noble actions. Those who contribute most to this kind of association are for that very reason entitled to a larger share in the state than those who, though they may be equal or even superior in free birth and in family, are inferior in the virtue that belongs to a citizen. Similarly they are entitled to a larger share than those who are superior in riches but inferior in virtue.

  Aristotle

  Together, Purpose, Noble

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• The Institutional Church (ecclesia) has killed only two kinds of people: Those who do not believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ, and those who do.

  Will Durant

  Jesus, Believe, Teaching

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• The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe. Stories of this kind had been told of the assassination of Julius Caesar.

  Thomas Paine

  Jesus, Believe, Imagination

  Thomas Paine (1830). “The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To which are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.138

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• You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the greater has been the cruelty and the worse has been the state of affairs. In the so called age of faith, when men really did believe the Christian religion in all its completeness, there was the Inquisition, with its tortures; there were millions of unfortunate women burnt as witches; and there was every kind of cruelty practised upon all sorts of people in the name of religion.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Believe, Men

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• Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things that we take for granted.

  Annie Lennox

  Respect, Attitude, Labels

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• Every society, all government, and every kind of civil compact therefore, is or ought to be, calculated for the general good and safety of the community.

  George Mason

  Government, Safety, Community

  George Mason's remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company, circa April 1775.

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• I think we're creating a situation that's incredibly dangerous. There's a lot of chat at the moment about the war on terror and whilst there are many causes for acts of terrorism, what kind of society are you creating if you allow civil society in Africa to die and create millions upon millions of orphans? Where are they going to go? What kind of cults, what kind of militias, what's going to happen? The accession of violence in those countries, the possibility of that, to me is very terrifying.

  Emma Thompson

  Country, War, Thinking

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• It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.

  Guy Lafleur

  Thank You, Nice, Careers

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• When you see someone you love with somebody else, your heart kind of falls to the ground.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Broken Heart, Fall, Liking Someone

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• If we must part for ever,
  Give me but one kind word to think upon,
  And please myself withal, whilst my heart's breaking!

  Thomas Otway

  Break Up, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  "Best Plays".

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• Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow. Flexible and efficient markets for labor and capital, an entrepreneurial tradition, and a general willingness to tolerate and even embrace technological and economic change all contribute to this resiliency.

  Ben Bernanke

  Change, Technology, Years

  "Letting the air out". www.economist.com. November 19, 2008.

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