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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed
us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their
use.
-Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)
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Any fine morning, a power saw can fell a tree that took a thousand
years to grow.
-Edwin Way Teale, naturalist and author (1899-1980)
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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative,
a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
-Franklin P. Jones, businessman (1887-1929)
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Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or
bend a knotted oak.
-William Congreve, dramatist (1670-1729)
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The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake
that, you've got it made.
-Groucho Marx
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered
a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
-Clarence Darrow, lawyer and author (1857-1938)
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The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
-William Wordsworth
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"When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When
the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
--Thomas Jefferson
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
-Navajo Proverb
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And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the
bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin, writer (1903-1977)
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The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.
-Japanese proverb
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The believer is happy; the doubter is wise.
-Hungarian proverb
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Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest
of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into
this world alone; all leave it alone.
-Thomas De Quincey, writer (1785-1859)
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:
it goes on.
-Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963)
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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported
to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context
-- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
-Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it
will be too late.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
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Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from
themselves.
-James Matthew Barrie, author (1860-1937
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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in
my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
-Brendan Francis Behan, playwright (1923-1964)
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Never lend books -- nobody ever returns them; the only books I have
in my library are those which people have lent me.
-Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)
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You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
- Bonnie Prudden, fitness trainer and author (1914- )
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One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
-Rita Mae Brown, author (1944- )
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We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success
of those we don't like?
-Jean Cocteau, author and painter (1889-1963)
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Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility
on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
-Booker T. Washington, reformer, educator, and author (1856-1915)
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It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad
to suspect good.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE)
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Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest
blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
-Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)
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The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their
presence.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)
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There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.
-Aristotle, philosopher (384-322 B.C.)
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We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies?
-Edward Young, poet (1683-1765)
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Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a
great teacher.
-Japanese proverb
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something
from him.
-Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
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I'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is,
I could be just as proud for half the money.
-Arthur Godfrey
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People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when
the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light within.
-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, psychiatrist and author (1926- )
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
-Victor Hugo, poet, novelist and dramatist (1802-1885)
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Asked if he would like to do anything differently, he said, "I
think anybody in life says, 'I wish I could've gone back and done
this differently, done that differently.' There are moments, but
no one that stands out."
-Timothy McVeigh
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve
change amid order.
-Alfred North Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher (1861-1947)
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the U.S (1809-1865)
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If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules
of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
-Chinese Proverb
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Adults are obsolete children. -Dr. Seuss, humorist, illustrator,
and author
(1904-1991)
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It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling
exception, is composed of others.
-John Andrew Holmes
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The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds,
and the pessimist fears this is true.
-James Branch Cabell, novelist, essayist, critic (1879-1958)
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