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"With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it." »Aristotle
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"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is." »Johann von Goethe
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"If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool." »Carl Jung
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"Cats regard people as warmblooded furniture." »Jacquelyn Mitchard
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"I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles." »G.K. Chesterton
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"I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something I don't know where I would be without it." »Thomas Mann
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"Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold." »Ecclesiasticus
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"Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord." »Albert Einstein
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"Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent." »Ernest Hemingway
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"Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral." »Vernon A. Walters
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently." »Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"There is a particular disdain with which Siamese cats regard you. Anyone who has walked in on the Queen cleaning her teeth will be familiar with the feeling." »Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt, p. 215
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"Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it." »Frank Herbert, Chenoeh: "Coversations with Leto II"
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"Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort." »James Goldsmith
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"If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain." »Andr Maurois
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"It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides." »George Sand
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"It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more." »Agnes Repplier
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"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages." »Adam Smith
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"Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs." »Albert Einstein
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"In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon." »Horace
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"Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong." »Albert Einstein
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"That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself." »Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
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"With regard to a secret divulged and kept concealed, there is an excellent proverb, that the one is an arrow still in our possession, the other is an arrow sent from the bow." »Jami
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"I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person." »Jane Austen
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"Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)" »Irving Layton
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"The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life." »Thomas Mann
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"Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ." »Clive Staples Lewis
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"It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light, namely, that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of Providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever may be its privations." »Von Humboldt
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"One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding." »Marcus Aurelius, Meditations – Book Three
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