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“There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.” — Christopher Morley

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“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.” — Aristotle

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“Life is not perfect. It never will be. You just have to make the very best of it. And you have to open your heart to what the world can show you. And sometimes it's terrifying. And sometimes it's incredibly beautiful. And I'll take both, thanks.” — Graham Nash

Source:Wisdom (2008). Film.

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“It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.” — Dalai Lama

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“Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.” — Victor Hugo

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“Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.” — Sigmund Freud

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“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” — Albert Einstein

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