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Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.
Planning
Mark Caine

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Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Respectability
Albert Camus

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As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.
Goodness
Elias Canetti

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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Potential
Thomas Carlyle

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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Biography
Thomas Carlyle

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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Beginning
Thomas Carlyle

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Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Excellence
Thomas Carlyle

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The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
Bed
Angela Carter

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Adversity
M Kathleen Casey

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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Desire
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.
Misers and Misery
Miguel De Cervantes

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Fashion is made to become unfashionable.
Fashion
Coco Chanel

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In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Uniqueness
Coco Chanel

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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
Giving
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

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He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.
Death and Dying
Charles II

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One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.
Success
Anton Chekhov

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Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.
Perseverance
Lord Chesterfield

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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
Love
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Silence is the unbearable repartee.
Silence
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Wisdom
Chinese Proverb

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Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.
Habit
Chinese Proverb

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To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
Certainty
Chinese Proverb

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It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Charity
Winston Churchill

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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Achievement
Winston Churchill

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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Defeat
Winston Churchill

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun