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Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.
History and Historians
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
Destiny
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time.
Time and Time Management
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

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In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
Faith
Friedrich Schlegel

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Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more.
Discipline
Harold Schoenberg

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Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
Relationships
Arthur Schopenhauer

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It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.
Character
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
Books - Reading
Arthur Schopenhauer

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The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
Ideas
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.
Challenges
Robert H. Schuller

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Winning starts with beginning.
Action
Robert H. Schuller

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Nothing right can be accomplished in art without enthusiasm.
Arts and Artists
Robert Schumann

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A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Crime and Criminals
Howard Scott

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But with morning cool repentance came.
Repentance
Sir Walter Scott

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Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Sir Walter Scott

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Perfect love cannot be without equality.
Equality
Scottish Proverb

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The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.
Preparation
David Searles

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He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
Anger
Thomas Secker

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Autobiographies ought to begin with Chapter Two.
Autobiography
Ellery Sedgwick

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I have a rendezvous with Death at some disputed barricade.
Death and Dying
Alan Seeger

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The world cannot be governed without juggling.
Leaders and Leadership
John Selden

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A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.
Fools and Foolishness
Seneca

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A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Individuality
Seneca

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A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
Sin
Seneca

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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
Fate
Seneca

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