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The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
Virtue
Jawaharlal Nehru

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The simple joy of taking an idea into one's own hands and giving it proper form, that's exciting.
Ideas
George Nelson

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Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.
Paradise
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Writers and Writing
Friedrich Nietzsche

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So long as you are praised think only that you are not yet on your own path but on that of another.
Praise
Friedrich Nietzsche

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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
Ideals and Idealism
Friedrich Nietzsche

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All you have to do is know where you're going. The answers will come to you of their own accord.
Goals
Earl Nightingale

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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own acres of diamonds.
Opportunity
Earl Nightingale

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The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.
Politicians and Politics
Richard M. Nixon

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Leadership must be established from the top down.
Leaders and Leadership
Sam Nunn

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In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
Taxes and Taxation
Austin O'Malley

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A torchlight procession marching down your throat.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
John Louis O'Sullivan

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I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.
Competition
Al Oerter

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Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better.
Style
Margaret Oliphant

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One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
Catholicism
George Orwell

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I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.
Love
Samuel Osgood

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Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss.
Neighbors
Tai Shang Kan Ying P'Ien

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My own mind is my own church.
Churches
Thomas Paine

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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.
Mistakes
Vilfredo Pareto

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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Critics and Criticism
Dorothy Parker

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Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown?
Dress
Dorothy Parker

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
Character
Charles H. Parkhurst

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When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
Perseverance
Alice Paul

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The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
Planning
Jean Paul

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We live in a web of ideas, a fabric of our own making.
Environment
Joseph Chilton Pearce

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