Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Than Quotes from famous persons: Robert Fulghum, Aiden Wilson Tozer, Maddie Marlow, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Than Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.
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We have more to offer than just looking good.
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Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.
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A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
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The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.
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Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don’t ignore that critic but don’t give it more attention than it deserves.
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The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
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I believe that each person is more than the worst thing they’ve ever done.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man’s whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.
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Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
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The only thing better than singing is more singing.
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I think there’s no higher calling in terms of a career than public service, which is a chance to make a difference in people’s lives and improve the world.
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Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
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We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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You can’t please everyone. When you’re too focused on living up to other people’s standards, you aren’t spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it’s all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!
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Have confidence in everything. No matter what it is that you’re doing, know that you can do it better than anyone.
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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
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Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
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We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
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After all is said and done, more is said than done.
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It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
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Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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I’d rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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I was never less alone than when by myself.
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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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An unjust peace is better than a just war.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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We all fly. Once you leave the ground, you fly. Some people fly longer than others.
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There’s beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that’s harder than others.
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With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.
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Before the tribunal of nature, a man has no more right to life than a rattlesnake; he has no more right to liberty than any wild beast; his right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing but a license to maintain the struggle for existence, if he can find within himself the powers with which to do it.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That’s nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
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There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it’s just by signing an autograph. A child’s smile is worth more than all the money in the world.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.
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Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
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You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going.
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My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.
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It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
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Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
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Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
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Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
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Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
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It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
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Sometimes it’s more about the journey than the destination.
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I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.
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I am more vintage than I am high fashion.
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It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
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The American Dream is a term that is often used but also often misunderstood. It isn’t really about becoming rich or famous. It is about things much simpler and more fundamental than that.
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Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
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Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
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To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
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People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
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You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
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I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.
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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.
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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.
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We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.
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The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic than to love others.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
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As a street hustler, you’ve got to be smarter than everybody. You have to outsmart the police, you have to outsmart the people in competition with you, you have to outsmart all the opposition.
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
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The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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As you navigate through the rest of your life, be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own. Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life.
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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The most valuable investment we can make is in our children’s education. When we make education a priority, we give our children opportunity. Opportunity to learn at higher levels than their parents were able to learn; to earn at higher levels than we were able to earn.
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A good restaurant is like a vacation; it transports you, and it becomes a lot more than just about the food.
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A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Man has no greater enemy than himself.
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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.
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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
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I don’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 a day.
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The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It’s by giving those people a service that’s better than what they’re receiving from the pirates.
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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It is better to be alone than in bad company.
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It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
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It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.
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As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.
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Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It’s coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
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If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.
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To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing.
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The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
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Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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When we talk about ‘smart transportation,’ it is more than moving cargo from A to B. Digitization within transport and logistics means seamless service to our customers, visibility in the supply chain, and driving a more efficient business.
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In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
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Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.
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There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.
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I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.
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There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.
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Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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Love is a better teacher than duty.
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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family – and I don’t think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
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There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.
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Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion – it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.
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There’s nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
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Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
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Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
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I’m never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
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I think it’s better to feel good than to look good.
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Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
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I’m a comeback waiting to happen. No one deserves it more than I do.
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A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.
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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
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There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.
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I have an impact and people look up to me now. It’s more than the money.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
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Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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Winning or losing of the election is less important than strengthening the country.
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Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
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Smile from your heart; nothing is more beautiful than a woman who is happy to be herself.
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Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.
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I have a lot of great memories, but I can’t imagine anything more exciting than the life I have now.
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Silence is better than unmeaning words.
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Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
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The remedy is worse than the disease.
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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
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Good words cool more than cold water.
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People see me as cute, but I’m so much more than that.
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Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.
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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
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You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.
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Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.
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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
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Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
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There are too many mediocre things in life to deal with. Love shouldn’t be one of them. Anything less than extraordinary is a waste of my time.
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No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity.
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Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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Everyone loves to fly, and flying underwater is even better than flying in air because there are things around you.
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Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
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On a motorcycle, you can’t really think about more than where you are. There’s a freedom that comes with that – from stress, worry, sweating the small stuff.
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The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
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If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
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Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
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Positive thinking is more than just a tagline. It changes the way we behave. And I firmly believe that when I am positive, it not only makes me better, but it also makes those around me better.
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I probably talk to myself more than I talk to anyone.
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I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.
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I’d always rather be lucky than smart.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
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Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
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An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
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Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.
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When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America’s bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
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Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
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I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life.
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There is nothing nobler than risking your life for your country.
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Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Do more than you are being paid to do, and you’ll eventually be paid more for what you do.
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There is nothing better than a proper breakfast.
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
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I firmly believe that respect is a lot more important, and a lot greater, than popularity.
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A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.
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I have always believed that process is more important than results.
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Virtue is more to be feared than vice, because its excesses are not subject to the regulation of conscience.
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Relationships are eternal. The ‘separation‘ is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.
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The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
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I’d rather be rich and miserable than poor and miserable.
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I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.
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The rewards for biotechnology are tremendous – to solve disease, eliminate poverty, age gracefully. It sounds so much cooler than Facebook.
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I think beta males on an evolutionary basis are much more successful than the alpha males are. You don’t hear much about us, but there’s a lot more of us out there.
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Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
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There is more power in unity than division.
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Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.
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Attitudes are more important than facts.
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Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.
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There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
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Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game.
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An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
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The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
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You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
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It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else.
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Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?
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Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
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People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things – to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.
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We’re our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.
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I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.
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Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
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There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do – and I believe that.
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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
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Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.
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True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
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Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
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I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren’t as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.
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There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.
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Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
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You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
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Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
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A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
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Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
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Nothing makes you feel better than when you get into a hotel bed, and the sheets feel so good. Why shouldn’t you wake up like that every day? Spend money on your mattress and bedding because these things make a difference on your sleep and, ultimately, your happiness.
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined – to strengthen each other – to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
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We loved with a love that was more than love.
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He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.
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You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
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They say a midget standing on a giant’s shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.
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If your political views define who you are as a human, and you can’t stand to have friends that have different views than you, than you need to reevaluate, my friend.
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It is better to look good than to feel good.
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
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The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it’s all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.
528
Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.
529
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.
530
531
Error is always more busy than truth.
532
I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
533
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
534
Better a broken promise than none at all.
535
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
536
537
What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.
538
Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.
539
You’ve got to express yourself in life, and it’s better out than in. What you reveal, you heal.
540
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
541
I’d rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.
542
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
543
It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.
544
545
A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.
546
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
547
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
548
549
I hate to lose more than I love to win.
550
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
551
552
There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
553
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
555
There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.
556
Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.
557
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
558
Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.
559
Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.
560
561
All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
562
Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
563
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There is nothing more fearful for the average person in our society than to stand before a group of people and speak.
565
I’d rather be lucky than good.
566
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
567
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
568
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
569
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
570
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
571
Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets.
572
Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.
573
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
574
I’ll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself.
575
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
576
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
577
578
I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
579
A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.
580
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.
581
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
582
583
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
584
585
The truth is more important than the facts.
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Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
591
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.
592
Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.
593
594
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
595
I would much rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.
596
It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
597
598
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
599
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
600
601
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603
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
604
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
605
606
It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
607
Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
608
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
609
610
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612
I’d rather have money and be broken-hearted than be broke and broken-hearted.
613
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Genius ain’t anything more than elegant common sense.
618
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
619
I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I’m a strong person and a strong individual. And that’s what I take with me every day.
620
621
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
622
Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
623
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
624
In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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