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A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Albert Einstein

Problem, Confusion, Means

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
George Carlin

Live, Bad, Reason

The main difference between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
Mark Twain

Lie, Between, Lives

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Mahatma Gandhi

Life, Live, Give

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler

Life, Enjoy, Learned

It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
Rene Descartes

Good, Mind, Enough

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato

Knowledge, Human, Desire

You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.
Steve Jobs

Money, Attention, Happened

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
John Wooden

Team, Rest, Ingredient

The main goal of the future is to stop violence. The world is addicted to it.
Bill Cosby

Future, Goal, Violence

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.
Steve Jobs

Music, Online, Competitor

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Erich Fromm

Life, Important, Give

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Will Rogers

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Stephen Covey

My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
John Henrik Clarke

God, Spiritual, Become

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
William J. Clinton

Live, Mistakes, Long

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Good, Cannot, State

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

Fear, Wisdom, Beginning

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H. L. Mencken

Baseball, Sensible, English

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will.
Alexander Hamilton

Power, Support, Found

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
E. M. Forster

Life, Love, Food

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle

Business, Lies, Hand

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Albert Schweitzer

Others, Example

I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy.
Bertrand Russell

Philosophy, Thoughts, Addiction

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
Peter Tosh

Love, Snow, Black

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.
Tom Landry

Goal, Plan, Achieving

Judging from the main portions of the history of the world, so far, justice is always in jeopardy.
Walt Whitman

History, Justice, Judging

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
Stephen King

Funny, Off, Road

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.
H. G. Wells

Human, Thought, Jesus

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