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  Don't give to anyone the power to put you down. Haters are losers pretending to be winners.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Hater, Power

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 04, 2011

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• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

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  The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Circles, Next

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.99, Cambridge University Press

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• Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Courage, Philosophical

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• Everything is hard before it is easy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word tht passes between one's teeth is meant for something.

  Molefi Kete Asante

  Wise, Meaningful, Truth

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• What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Family, Marriage

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• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Life, Positive, Birthday

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  The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

  Albert Einstein

  Motivational, Success, Education

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.44, Princeton University Press

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• Greed is permanent slavery

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wise, Greed, Insightful

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• Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspirational, Wine, Wrinkles

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  The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

  Carl Sagan

  Understanding, Brain, Use

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• Look for the answer inside your question.

  Rumi

  Wise, Clever, Looks

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• Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Grows, Shrinks

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, Military, War

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• The man is a success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Life, Success

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• The trouble is you think you have time.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspirational, Time, Buddhist

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• The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “De Officiis: (English Edition)”, p.149, LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

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• If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

  Marvin Gaye

  Inspirational, Peace, Passion

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• Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

  Laozi

  Love, Passion, Heart

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• We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, Easter, Fire

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• Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Moving On, Mistake, Educational

  Bertolt Brecht (1965). “The Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays”, p.87, Grove Press

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• When you know better you do better.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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