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• Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

  Oscar Wilde

  Education, Pain, Genius

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.15, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one of the last arts. Listening means not only hearing with the ears but hearing from the heart, in utter silence, in absolute peace, with no resistance. One has to be vulnerable to listen, and one has to be in deep love to listen. One has to be in utter surrender to listen.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Mean, Deep Love

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• A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.

  William James

  Motivational, Meaningful, Perseverance

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• A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world: if the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applauses of the public.

  Joseph Addison

  Honesty, Heart, Men

  "Addison's Essays".

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• You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Respect, Money, Honesty

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• So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Business, Successful, Men

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.478

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• People are too durable, that's their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Silly, Long, People

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Jungle of Cities: And Other Plays”, p.77, Grove Press

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• Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools.

  Og Mandino

  Live For Today, Calendars, Fool

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.86, Bantam

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• Know what you did last summer, so I started hookin'

  Method Man

  Summer, Rap, Knows

  Song: Blackout!

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• God is the last link of the chain, but He is the first also.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Ties, Firsts, Links

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Regret, Years, Bird

  "The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha".

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• 'Confusion is the last stop on the way to clarity,' he told me. 'The part of your mind that thinks it knows it all is butting up against a bigger idea. It's only a matter of time until the smaller thought gives way to the greater. Don't fight it. Just try to enjoy the ride.'

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Fighting, Thinking

  Alan H. Cohen (2011). “How Good Can It Get?: What I Learned from the Richest Man in the World”, p.19, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.

  Dean Koontz

  Life, Spring, Butterfly

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Brother Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.103, Bantam

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• No louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or lap-dogs breathe their last.

  Alexander Pope

  Dog, Husband, Loss

  Alexander Pope (2002). “Alexander Pope: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.76, Routledge

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• When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly.

  William J. Clinton

  Country, Moving, Weekend

  "Interview on MTV's "Enough is Enough" Forum". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. April 19, 1994.

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• Freedom is not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment.

  Henry Steele Commager

  Indulge In, Luxury, Enlightenment

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• Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power. We must snatch the present moment, and employ it well, without too much solicitude for the future, and content ourselves with reflecting that our part is performed. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions and barren zeal.

  Samuel Johnson

  Regret, Opportunity, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• The last birthday that's any good is 23.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Age

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• Atheism is the last word of theism

  Heinrich Heine

  Atheism, Theism, Last Words

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• So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky.

  Russell Baker

  Science, Moon, Men

  1969 Editoral pages, the New York Times, 21 Jul.

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• As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.

  Confucius

  Progress, Tipping, Action

  Confucius (1992). “Confucius: The Analects”

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• What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

  Rollo May

  Country, Courage, Moving

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• The more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed.

  Murray Rothbard

  Recovery, Liberty, Economics

  Murray N. Rothbard (2009). “Man, Economy, and State, Scholar's Edition”, p.1001, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Liberty, Analysis

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.49, Lexington Books

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• The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but a conclusion drawn from a broad look at the trends of the last decade and a half, which, if we take the right steps, can continue on into the next century. What has happened around the world - nations states collapsing, markets outwitting planners, citizens rising up against government masters - can and is happening here at home.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Home, Rising Up, Government

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