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When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.
Lord Falkland
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Give no decision till both sides thou'st heard.
Phocylides
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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Henry Ford
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Never judge a man's actions until you know his motives.
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Little by little, one travels far.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
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Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Henry Ford
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
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Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
M.K. Gandhi
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To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside where it functions best.
Margaret Thatcher
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Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov
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Never take anything for granted.
Benjamin Disraeli
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If something is not worth doing well, it might not be worth doing at all.
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It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
Bertrand Russell
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Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything.
Mary Hemingway
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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
Betrand Russell.
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I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell
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To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable. To be certain is to be ridiculous.
Chinese proverb
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In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand Russell
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The one serious conviction that a man should have, is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
Nicholas Butler
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravitiy.
G.K. Chesterton.
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We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.
Calvin & Hobbes
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
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To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
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Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr
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They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Carl W. Buechner
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Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
Gene Fowler
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Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
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Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw
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Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.
Winston Churchill
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One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell
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