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You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Expectation
Michael Jordan

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Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.
Labor
Joseph Joubert

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Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.
Monuments
Joseph Joubert

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Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Superstition
Joseph Joubert

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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
Argument
Joseph Joubert

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The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Anger
Joseph Joubert

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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
Mind
Joseph Joubert

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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Books - Reading
Joseph Joubert

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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray.
Humor
Joseph Joubert

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There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
Books - Reading
Joseph Joubert

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They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Proverbs
Joseph Joubert

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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
God
Joseph Joubert

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Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.
Duty
Joseph Joubert

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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
Words
Joseph Joubert

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One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
Books - Reading
Benjamin Jowett

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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Arts and Artists
James Joyce

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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
Churches
James Joyce

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It takes all the fun out of a bracelet if you have to buy it yourself.
Gifts
Peggy Hopkins Joyce

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A collection of a hundred Great brains makes one big fathead.
Committees and Meetings
Carl Jung

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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Addiction
Carl Jung

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Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Imitation
Carl Jung

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Our blight is ideologies -- they are the long-expected Antichrist!
Ideology
Carl Jung

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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.
Youth
Carl Jung

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There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
Emotions
Carl Jung

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The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.
Justice
Junius

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