And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Author: Andrew Carnegie

Author: Andrew Carnegie

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Simon," said a voice at his shoulder, and he turned to see Izzy, her face a pale smudge between dark

Author: Cassandra Clare
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The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.

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Today's satori:Such a change of mind wouldNot exist withoutMy lifelong habit of havingMy mind immers

Author: Saigyō
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Sometimes we do not realize how many people give a damn until something horrible happens. And someti

Author: Monika Basile
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There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.

Author: Miguel Ruiz
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A person’s affinity towards his or her own religious beliefs, has the same neurological qualities as

Author: Abhijit Naskar
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Jealousy is a mortal emotion. One that means I feel I have something to lose--something that, if gon

Author: Jackson Pearce
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You can’t fall in love that fast. Not real love. Real love takes time, like a fine wine. Real love t

Author: Kitty Thomas
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The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring

Author: Jami Gertz
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It's funny, because there are so many stereotypes out there about actors and movie stars in general,

Author: Ryan Reynolds
Quote #81140

Leave your comfort-zone and begin to chase your dreams.

Author: Unknown
Quote #198627

Underneath my imagination there didn't seem to be anything solid except for the space where I shoved

Author: Jane Devin
Quote #493668

Older cars tend to drive like older cars. That is not for me.

Author: Robert Herjavec
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I don't fear death, I fear I haven't done enough before it happens

Author: Aryan Xebat‎
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Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal d

Author: Jay Griffiths
Quote #17952

El sabio puede cambiar de opinión. El necio, nunca.

Author: Immanuel Kant
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People would have to learn to deal with old monsters again. Stay in their houses. Shutter their wind

Author: Erin Kellison
Quote #132674

There will be positive and negative references with everything we do in life. At best we can simply

Author: Jay Danzie
Quote #133313

It may not matter how u start but it matters how u finish

Author: Ikechukwu Joseph
Quote #3897

What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie.

Author: Tana French
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Arthur, do you think the fall of the Wall means anything? Do you think that this means that even one

Author: David Burr Gerrard
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Whenever I'm around him, all I can think about is how much more I want to be around him.

Author: Colleen Hoover
Quote #55748

Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded

Author: Steve Kendall
Quote #312137

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Author: Margaret Thatcher
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You need a body to preserve your soul, not a set of abstract principles.

Author: Ahmed Mostafa
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When Ben came back to me, he said, "Why are you laying with your face in the sand?"I made sure all t

Author: Audrey Couloumbis
Quote #343754

May my life radiates the beauty of God's glorious grace to mankind.

Author: Unknown
Quote #482339

Marriage is something that needs to be worked on every day. I don't know if I'm the one to give mari

Author: Emily Blunt
Quote #318610

The employment equation used to be built on a foundation of two-way loyalty. The world has changed.

Author: Gyan Nagpal
Quote #148121

Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone

Author: Michelle Cohen Corasanti
Quote #268491

It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we don’t mean gaining “self-kn

Author: Chang-rae Lee
Quote #238308

It’s not about money or connections — it’s the willingness to outwork and out-learn everyone… And if

Author: Mark Cuban
Quote #133058

If you wish to compare, compare yourself with God's commandment.

Author: Unknown
Quote #122074

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for j

Author: Anonymous
Quote #474696

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Author: Aldous Huxley
Quote #317499

Words have power? That sounds like you're into some Harry Potter juju.

Author: Chloe Neill
Quote #327298

Each year, Gracie Henderson moons a thousand strangers, collects their shocked faces in an annual ph

Author: Aspen Matis
Quote #410127

Friends Romans countrymen lend me your ears.

Author: William Shakespeare
Quote #463271

Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken

Author: Helen Fisher
Quote #309265

Where his boyhood retreat had been a cave hewn for one, it now accommodated two. He was suddenly two

Author: Emma Richler
Quote #465116

Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

Author: Karl Marx
Quote #14350

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his s

Author: Paul Valéry
Quote #211244

It is often the tiny steps that define the big moments in our dreams.

Author: Chris Burkmenn
Quote #421220

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Author: Boris Pasternak
Quote #4595

That is life... to begin again when everything is lost!

Author: A.J. Cronin
Quote #153682

The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Author: Michel de Montaigne
Quote #183262

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and

Author: Oscar Wilde
Quote #97331

Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn't just march into a reco

Author: Nick Hornby
Quote #309593

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Lover of poetry, prose and procrastination.

Author: Stephen Fitzsimons
Quote #400544

Be equal to your talent, not your age. At times let the gap between them be embarrassing.

Author: Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Quote #268040

I believe that we should all be free to believe what we want and not be condemned for it,” I say wit

Author: Celia McMahon
Quote #150809

The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human.

Author: Michel Houellebecq
Quote #332337

My life has been like a battlefield, a war that could never be won unless I had her with me, and the

Author: Rebecah McManus
Quote #162326

Human experience is not nest and orderly, ready to be coded into predetermined categories. Real life

Author: Jennifer Gold
Quote #65965

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Quote #311532

We are in an outside that carries inner worlds.

Author: Peter Sloterdijk
Quote #319180

A sacrifice ever remembered.Never forgotten.Another day we live.A sacrifice for you. Only for you. A

Author: Mary E. Pearson
Quote #501441

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are

Author: Sue Kelly
Quote #465131

My countrymen: we have reached a turning point in our history. The choice is yours. Shall we venture

Author: Ferdinand Marcos
Quote #337329

Born born everything is always bornthinking about it try not to

Author: Ikkyu
Quote #329326

Love? Love is for children and poor people...

Author: Molly Harper
Quote #19016

Fallon affected my body in weird ways. But only because she’s different, I told myself.

Author: Penelope Douglas
Quote #429042

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

Author: Edward Young
Quote #268746

People want to feel good, be entertained, eat salty shit, and cum twice a week, and provided they do

Author: Rick Remender
Quote #474214

As a physician and as a pilot, I think it lets me be a pretty good translator having one foot in the

Author: David M. Brown
Quote #240161

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

Author: Bede Jarrett
Quote #60945

Language-lovers know that there is a word for every fear. Are you afraid of wine? Then you have oeno

Author: Steven Pinker
Quote #501853

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society ov

Author: Harriet Martineau
Quote #407152

There are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it.

Author: Unknown
Quote #94225

Seek to know your sacred soul.

Author: Unknown
Quote #162603

Blake gave Selena a nudge "Remember what I taught you, itsy-bitsy-babe

Author: A.E. Kirk
Quote #373586

A hero must hero.

Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Quote #363796

Monday is a sloppy umbrella day, which makes everybody a little blue. Cole, dropping by my office in

Author: Giorge Leedy
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Cole stilled when his feral eyes found her, roaming every inch as though searching for a wound. The

Author: Kerrigan Byrne
Quote #319615

If your positivity immune system is low, any exposure to a person afflicted with negativity can pois

Author: Bryant McGill
Quote #305095

The essence of all human rights is the equality of the entire human race, which the Qur’ān assumed,

Author: Fazlur Rahman
Quote #13221

At beyond continent of reality, there are oceans of ideas.

Author: Toba Beta
Quote #468946

Not only does God play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Author: Stephen Hawking
Quote #480152

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was th

Author: George Galloway
Quote #97417

If you judge art by its cover, you efface the very essence of it

Author: Evy Michaels
Quote #473812

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tel

Author: Tina Fey
Quote #48987

One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels a

Author: Criss Jami
Quote #438096

The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not k

Author: Joseph Rotblat
Quote #245097

Maybe it's better this way-that we keep our darknesses close, hidden in our minds, protected by our

Author: Andrea Cremer
Quote #475198

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll b

Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Quote #181120

When my words are concealedWith lies and disguises, truth and beyondInsecurities in the veil of trus

Author: Irum Zahra
Quote #51707

Education is the key to progress and success for human beings and for a nation.

Author: Debasish Mridha
Quote #207770

I stomped on the spiders as I backed away, halting their progress. A brave one ambled forward and sa

Author: E.J. Stevens
Quote #460

It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you.It's that you need to

Author: Patrick Ness
Quote #353289

Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it’s just b

Author: Geoffrey Wood
Quote #328424

Do not just envisage your own hopes, dreams — but, have the courage to strive toward them.

Author: Eleesha
Quote #464010

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Author: Thomas Jefferson
Quote #371113

The world was different before the war,' he said. 'We didn't have this instantaneous access to infor

Author: Ben Aaronovitch
Quote #265765

Oh, this tormenting concern that your neighbor’s life might be better than yours! And how great it f

Author: Igor Eliseev
Quote #183682

It is like oil. Like molasses, slow at first.Then one morning I woke up and it was flowing free and

Author: Jerry Pinto
Quote #237761

I sometimes stare into fire or into the night sky alone and wish for a girl or my situation to be di

Author: J.D. Taylor
Quote #349070

It's easy to forget that life is the greatest gift of all

Author: Karli Perrin
Quote #408926

God seems to have the receiver off the hook.

Author: Arthur Koestler