Violence Quotes - Martin Luther King

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“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning

Fear - Freedom Quotes - Eric Hoffer

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“The real 'haves' are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real 'have nots' are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and

Power Quotes - James Byrnes

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“Power intoxicates men. It is never voluntarily surrendered. It must be taken from them.”James F. Byrnes (1879 – 1972) U.S. politician

Immortality Quotes - Woody Allen

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“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.”Woody Allen (b. 1935) U.S. humorist, actor and film director

Habit Quotes - Youth - George Crabbe

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“Habit with him was all the test of youth,It must be right: I've done it from my youth.”George Crabbe (1754 - 1832) English poet

Funny - Fools Quotes - Mark Twain

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“Ah well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Finance Quotes - Robert Sarnoff

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“Finance is the art of passing currency from hand to hand until it finally disappears.”Robert Sarnoff (b. 1918) U.S. TV executive

Absence - Justice Quotes - Brendan Behan

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“I was ... court-martialled in my absence, sentenced to death in my absence. So I said, right, you can shoot me in my absence.”Brendan Behan (1923 – 64) Irish playwright and poet

Strategy Quotes - Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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“To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.”Rosabeth Moss Kanter (b. 1943) U.S. management theorist, academic and writer

Praise Quotes - Mary Kay Ash

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“Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.”Mary Kay Ash (1915 – 2001) U.S. founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics

Dictatorship - Democracy Quotes - Peres

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“Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.”Shimon Peres (b. 1923) Israeli prime minister

Human Rights Quotes - Eleanor Roosevelt

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“One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.”Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962) U.S. human rights activist, author, and first lady

Military Power Quotes - Eisenhower

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“In the councils of government we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”Dwight David Eisenhower (1890 – 1969) U.S. president

Responsibility Quotes - Nancy Peretsman

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“There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to the same thing. Deny your responsibility.”Nancy Peretsman (b. 1955) U.S. investment banker

Sincerity Quotes - John F Kennedy

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“Civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof.”John F. Kennedy (1917 – 63) U.S. president

Toastmaster Quotes - Adlai Stevenson

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“The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.”Adlai E. Stevenson (1900 – 65) U.S. politician

Mutual Success Quotes - Bruyere

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“The shortest and the best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interests to promote yours.”Jean de La Bruyère (1645 – 96) French moralist and essayist

Teamwork Quotes - Daniel Goleman

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“Self-deception operates both at the level of the individual mind, and in the collective awareness of the group. To belong to a group of any sort, the tacit price of membership is to agree not to notice one's own feelings of uneasiness and misgiving, and certainly not to question anything that challenges the group's way of doing things.”Daniel Goleman (b. 1946) U.S. behavioral scientist and

Wealth - Poverty Quotes

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“The rich would have to eat money, but luckily the poor provide food.”Anonymous (Russian proverb)

Love Quotes - WH Auden

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“Will it come like a change in the weather?Will its greeting be courteous or rough?Will it alter my life altogether?O tell me the truth about love.”W. H. Auden (1907 – 73) U.S. poet

Ambition Quotes - Jonathan Swift

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“Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.”Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) Irish writer and satirist

Bank Loan Quotes - Bob Hope

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“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.”Bob Hope (1903 – 2003) U.S. comedian and actor

Bureaucracy Quotes - Max Weber

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“However many people complain about the 'red tape', it would be sheer illusion to think for a moment that continuous administrative work can be carried out except by means of officials working in offices ... The choice is only that between bureaucracy and dilettantism in the field of administration.”Max Weber (1864 – 1920) German political economist and sociologist

Corporate Disclosure Quotes - Ellison

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“We will ship them our garbage. We believe in full disclosure.”Larry D. Ellison (b. 1944) U.S. co-founder and C.E.O. of Oracle Corporation

Progress Quotes - Gerald Sparrow

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“It depends entirely upon the image of you that people have in their minds whether you will climb the ladder slowly, painfully, or with a rapidity that will surprise – and appall – your friends.”Gerald Sparrow (1903 – 88) British business executive and writer

Media - Newspaper Quotes - Mark Twain

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“You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir! I have been through it from Alpha to Omega, and I tell you the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Humor - Love Quotes - SJ Perelman

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“Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin – it is the triumphant twang of a bedspring.”S. J. Perelman (1904 – 79) U.S. humorist and author

Humans Quotes - Miguel de Cervantes

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“Every man is as God made him, and often even worse.”Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

Funny Quotes - Advertising

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“When the client moans and sighsMake his logo twice the size.If he still should prove refractory,Show a picture of a factory.Only in the gravest casesShould you show the clients' faces.”Anonymous (Quoted in Ogilvy on Advertising 1983)

Funny Quotes - Anonymous

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“[Accountancy is] a profession whose idea of excitement is sharpening a bundle of No. 2 pencils.”Anonymous (Quoted in Time Magazine 1993)

Age - Wisdom Quotes - Miriam Makeba

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“Age is other things too. It is wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly. It is experience and knowledge. And it is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.”Miriam Makeba (b. 1932) South African singer

Character Quotes - Ronald Reagan

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“You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by the way he eats jelly beans.”Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004) U.S. president

Funny Quotes - Fatness - Sydney Smith

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“Going to marry her! Impossible! You mean a part of her; he could not marry her all himself ... There is enough of her to furnish wives for a whole parish ... You might people a colony with her; or give an assembly with her; or perhaps take your morning's walk round her, always provided there were frequent resting-places, and you were in rude health.”Sydney Smith (1771 – 1845) English clergyman

Opera Quotes - Humor - Edith Wharton

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“An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.”Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937) U.S. novelist and designer

Self Regard Quotes - Addison Mizner

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“Don't talk about yourself, it will be done when you leave.”Addison Mizner (1872 – 1933) U.S. architect

Humor - Exercise Quotes - Oscar Wilde

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“The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.”Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) Irish playwright, novelist, and poet

Cup of Tea Quotes - AP Herbert

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“I like a nice cup of tea in the morning,For to start the day, you see,And at half-past elevenWell, my idea of HeavenIs a nice cup of tea:I like a nice cup of tea with me dinnerAnd a nice cup of tea with me tea,And when it's time for bedThere's a lot to be saidFor a nice cup of tea.”A. P. Herbert (1890 – 1971) English writer and politician

Truth - Fiction Quotes - Mark Twain

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“Truth is stranger than fiction – to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it. Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Cynicism Quotes - George Canning

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“And finds, with keen discriminating sight,Black's not so black; - nor white so very white.”George Canning (1770 – 1827) British prime minister

Love - Death - Quotes - William Penn

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“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still.”William Penn (1644 – 1718) English founder of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

Character Quotes - George Eliot

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“Our deeds still travel with us from afar,And what we have been makes us what we are.”George Eliot (1819 – 80) British novelist

Age - Limitations Quotes - Saki

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“The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened. It's only the middle-aged who are really conscious of their limitations.”Saki (1870 – 1916) British author

Children - Adults Quotes - Peter De Vries

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“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.”Peter De Vries (1910 – 93) U.S. novelist

Friendship Quotes - Mary Catherwood

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“Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.”Mary Catherwood (1847 – 1902) U.S. writer

Money - Time Quotes - Samuel Johnson

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“Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and ... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.”Samuel Johnson (1709 – 84) British poet and lexicographer

Quotes - Power - John Milton

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“Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in hell:Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.”John Milton (1608 – 74) English poet

Clever - Quotes - William Whitelaw

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“It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.”William Whitelaw (1918 – 99) British politician

Achievement Quotes - Donald Trump

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“In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.”Donald J. Trump (b. 1946) U.S. real estate developer and author

Quotes - Charity - Somerset Maugham

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“People often feed the hungry so that nothing may disturb their own enjoyment of a good meal.”W. Somerset Maugham (1874 – 1965) British novelist and short story writer

Funny Writers Quotes - Flannery O Connor

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“Everywhere I go I am asked if university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.”Flannery O'Connor (1925 – 64) U.S. novelist

Meetings - Quotes - Scott Fitzgerald

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“No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.”F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940) U.S. novelist and short-story writer

Change Quotes - Richard Branson

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“No one has ever accused us of lagging behind. In fact, I am willing to turn an entire company upside down if it's time to do that. We're in perpetual evolution.”Richard Branson (b. 1950) British founder of the Virgin Group

Humor - Ethics Quotes - Mark Twain

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“Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Accomplishment Quotes - CJ Walker

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“There is no royal flower-strewn path to success. And if there is, I have not found it for if I have accomplished anything in life it is because I have been willing to work hard.”C. J. Walker (1867 – 1919) U.S. first female American self-made millionaire

Humor - Confidence Quotes - Mark Twain

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“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.”Mark Twain (1835 – 1910) U.S. humorist and writer

Information Quotes - Tony Benn

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“If you file your waste basket for 50 years, you have a public library.”Tony Benn (b. 1925) British politician

Common Sense Quotes - Gerald Blair

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“The first steps to becoming a really great manager are simply common sense; but common sense is not very common.”Gerald M. Blair (b. 1959) U.S. writer

Quality TV Quotes - Warren Buffett

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“The funny thing is better TV shows don't cost that much more than lousy TV shows.”Warren Buffett (b. 1930) U.S. C.E.O. of Berkshire Hathaway

Learning Quotes - Tony Buzan

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“Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.”Tony Buzan (b. 1942) U.S. psychologist and originator of mind mapping

Patriotism Quotes - Carl Schurz

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“American people ... will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: 'Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.'”Carl Schurz (1829 – 1906) U.S. politician

Anger - Hate Quotes - Booker Washington

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“I would permit no man, no matter what his color might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”Booker T. Washington (1856 – 1915) U.S. political scientist, educator, and author

Men Masculinity Quotes - Betty Friedan

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“Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.”Betty Friedan (1921 – 2006) U.S. activist and writer

Power - Leader Quotes - Bertrand Russell

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“In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils. There is no hope for the world unless power can be tamed, and brought into the service, not of this or that group of fanatical tyrants, but of the whole human race ... for science has made it inevitable that all must live or

Adapt Change - Quotes - Arthur Clarke

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“The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers and thermonuclear weapons.”Arthur C. Clarke (b. 1917) British science fiction writer and inventor
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