“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Category: smile
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“All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Category: time
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“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”
— William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Category: men
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“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
— Aldo Leopold
Author: Aldo Leopold
Category: respect
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“Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.”
— Billie Jean King
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Category: sports
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“Humility is truth.”
— Desiderius Erasmus
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
Category: truth
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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: time
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“A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.”
— Robin G. Collingwood
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Category: science
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“The Tea Party was born out of the disgust many Americans felt early in the financial crisis upon learning that the federal government was even contemplating reducing the principal on some troubled mortgages.”
— Mark Zandi
Author: Mark Zandi
Category: learning
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“Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.”
— Boris Spassky
Author: Boris Spassky
Category: knowledge
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“Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.”
— John Ruskin
Author: John Ruskin
Category: music
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