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"There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule."	Samuel Butler
"Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment."	Eric Butterworth
"You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it."	Charles Roberts Buxton
"Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire With angels shared, by Allah given To lift from earth our low desire."	George Gordon Byron
"The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer."	Elias Canetti
"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it."	Andrew Carnegie
"If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance."	Dale Carnegie
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."	Dale Carnegie
"I may not be where I want to be, But thank God I'm not where I used to be."	Ainsley Carry
"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be."	Rosalynn Smith Carter
"He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist."	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
"A stiff apology is a second insult…. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"I've learned that if you want to cheer yourself up, you should try cheering someone else up."	Child Age 13
"I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life?"	Child Age 15
"When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic."	Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
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Abd Er-Rahman III	Abraham Lincoln	Ainsley Carry
Akhenaton	Alan Alexander Milne	Albert Einstein
Alexander Graham Bell	Andrew Carnegie	André Maurois
Ann Landers	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov	Anwar el-Sadat
Aristotle	Athenæus	A(ngelo) Bartlett Giamatti
Barbara Burrow	Barbara Charline Jordan	Bernard Edmonds
Bernard Mannes Baruch	Bethania McKenstry	Bhagavad Gita
Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba	Bob Dylan	Bob Moawad
Bruce Lee	Buonarroti Michelangelo	B. A. Billingsly
Catfish Hunter	Cathleen Douglas	Charles Dickens
Charles Bukowski	Charles Roberts Buxton	Child Age 13
Child Age 15	Christopher Darlington Morley	Claude Adrien Helvetius
Clifton Paul Fadiman	Clint(on) Eastwood, Jr.	Clive Alexander Barnes
Clive Staples Lewis	Confucius	Curtis Grant
Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold	Dale Carnegie	Damien Hess
Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin	Daniel Patrick Moynihan	David Broder
David Havard	David McCord	Dennis McKinsey
Diane Ackerman	Dick Allen	Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Dr. Arthur Kellerman	Dwight David Eisenhower	D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
Edmund Burke	Edward Dahlberg	Edward R(oscoe) Murrow
Elias Canetti	Ella Fitzgerald	Emma Albani
Epictetus	Epicurus	Erich Fromm
Eric Butterworth	Eric Hoffer	Eric Lustbader
Erma Louise Bombeck	Ernest Miller Hemingway	Eubie
Euripides	Eustace Budgell	Federico Fellni
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky	Fran Lebowitz	Francis William Bourdillon
Frank Herbert	Frederick Douglass	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
F(rancis) Scott	F. H. Bradley	Galileo Galilei
Gamal Abdel Nasser	Garrison Keillor	Garry Gamble
General Charles De Gaulle	Geoffrey F. Abert	George Eliot
George Dana Boardman	George Foreman	George Frost Kennan
George Gordon Byron	George Stanley McGovern	Georg Christopher Lichtenberg
Gerald R. Ford	Gilbert Keith Chesterton	Golda Meir
Gurdjieff	Gustave Flaubert	Gérard Depardieu
G. Campbell Morgan	Hal	Harold Howe II
Harold S. Geneen	Helen Adams Keller	Helen Merrell Lynd
Henrik Ibsen	Henry Hitt Crane	Herbert Clark Hoover
Honoré de Balzac	Horace Mann	H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky
H. Jackson Browne	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacques Martin Barzun
James Arthur Baldwin	James Lane Allen	Janet Jackson
Jane Austen	Jan Ashford	Jean de La Fontaine
Jean Kerr	Jeff Herman	Jerry Lewis
Jesse Lair	Jiddu Krishnamurti	Joe Moore
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	John Blofeld	John Burroughs
John B. Gough	John Cleese	John Dryden
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	John Kenneth Galbraith	Joseph Brooks
Joseph Conrad	Joseph Wood Krutch	Josh Billings
Juvenal	J(ames) William Fulbright	J. Brotherton
J. F. Boyse	Kahlil Gibran	Karen Burka
Kathe Kolliqitz	Kurt Lewin	Lady Nancy Astor
Lawrence Peter Berra	Leonard Bernstein	Leonardo DiCaprio
Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca	Lillian Hellman	Lisa Alther
Louis Kronenberger	Lyndon Baines Johnson	Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Marcus Tullius Cicero	Margaret Mead	Margaret Anderson
Maria Montessori	Mario M(atthew) Cuomo	Mark McGee
Marlon Brando	Marquis de Sade	Martin Luther
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Mary Ingraham Bunting	Maxim Gorky
Max Lerner	Max Lucado	Michael Korda
Michael Landon	Michel Eyquem de Montaigne	Michio Kushi
Mignon McLaughlin	Mike McLaren	Miles Dewey Davis
M. Shawn Covey	Napolean Hill	Neill MacRae
Niccolo Machiavelli	Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev	Ogden Nash
Orison Swett Marden	Paul Beatty	Paul Hawken
Percy H. Johnson	Phillip K. Dick	Phillips Brooks
Philo Judaeus	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Ralph Bunche
Raymond Holliwel	Ray Douglas Bradbury	Rena Harmon
Rene Descartes	Richard Lamm	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Richard M. Mathews	Robert Baker	Robert Francis Kennedy
Robert Fritz	Robert F. Bennett	Robert Henri
Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole	Robert Lee Frost	Romare Beardon
Rosabeth Moss Kanter	Rosalynn Smith Carter	Saint Augustine
Sally Field	Samuel Goldwyn	Samuel Butler
Sandra Cisneros	Shakti Gawain	Shirley Mount Hufstedler
Sigmund Freud	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Sir Francis Bacon
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill	Smiley Blanton	Sophia Loren
Stuti Garg	Sydney J. Harris	Taylor Hanson
Terry Goodkind	Thomas Jefferson	Tibetan Doctrine
T. S. Eliot	Ursula K. LeGuin	Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi
Vinny Nayak	Virginia Hanson	Walter Frederick Mondale
Warren G. Bennis	William Blake	William Hazlitt
William James	William Adams	William E. Holler
William Seward Burroughs	William Sherman Pene du Bois	Witold Gombrowicz
Woody Allen	Wystan Hugh Auden	Zelda
Zora Neale Hurston	(John) Calvin Coolidge