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"It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant."	(Sarah) Margaret Fuller
"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me."	Abraham Lincoln
"How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?"	Alan Greenspan
"...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."	Albert Einstein
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."	Albert Einstein
"I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play. (referring to America)"	Albert Einstein
"The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province."	Albert Einstein
"The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree."	Alexander Graham Bell
"If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain."	André Maurois
"He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist."	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."	Aristotle
"Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable."	Aristotle
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self."	Aristotle
"All men by nature desire to know."	Aristotle
"I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victort is the victory over self."	Aristotle
"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them; attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger."	Bhagavad Gita
"Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free."	Bhagavad Gita
"Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down."	Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba
"Lord grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish."	Buonarroti Michelangelo
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Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba	Buonarroti Michelangelo	Charles Krauthammer
Charlie McCarthy	Claude Adrien Helvetius	Confucius
Daniel Patrick Moynihan	David Guterson	David Havard
Dean Koontz	Dr. Samuel Johnson	Edmund Burke
Edward Dahlberg	Epictetus	Eric Butterworth
Eric Hoffer	Euripides	George Gordon Byron
Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Gérard Depardieu	Hal
Helen Adams Keller	Helen Merrell Lynd	Henrik Ibsen
Herbert Kaufman	Honoré de Balzac	Horace Mann
H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky	H. Jackson Brown	Ilie Nastase
I Ching	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jan Ashford
Jean de La Fontaine	Jeb Stuart Magruder	Jiddu Krishnamurti
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Keats	Juvenal
Kahlil Gibran	Maria Montessori	Marie Curie
Marquis de Sade	Maya Angelou	Michael Korda
Michio Kushi	Mike Newlin	M. Shawn Covey
Napolean Bonaparte	Napolean Hill	Niccolo Machiavelli
Orison Swett Marden	Pearl Bailey	Phillips Brooks
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Rene Descartes	Robert Burton
Robert F. Bennett	Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole	Robert Lee Frost
Saint Augustine	Shakti Gawain	Sigmund Freud
Sir Francis Bacon	Sir John Lubbock	Smiley Blanton
Sophia Loren	Ted W. Engstrom	Terry Josephson
Tibetan Doctrine	Walter Elliott	Walter Savage Landor
William Blake	William Hazlitt	William Adams
(Sarah) Margaret Fuller