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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue Aristotle Quotes

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to t Gertrude Stein Quotes

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong Marlene Dietrich Quotes

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

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I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the Charlie Sheen Quotes

I think my passion is misinterpreted as anger sometimes. And I don't think people are ready for the message that I'm delivering, and delivering with a sense of violent love.

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Would that I were a dry well and that the people tossed stones into me for that would be easier tha Kahlil Gibran Quotes

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

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The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom. Thomas Merton Quotes

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.

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Without tenderness a man is uninteresting. Marlene Dietrich Quotes

Without tenderness a man is uninteresting.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation but the only riches she can call her own. Samuel Johnson Quotes

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation but the only riches she can call her own.

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

Anger: an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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Everywhere in life the true question is not what we gain but what we do. Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Everywhere in life the true question is not what we gain but what we do.

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