Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
-- Clare Boothe Luce "Children spell love...T-I-M-E." (Dr. Anthony P. Witham) It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince The great end of life is not knowledge, but action. What men need is as much knowledge as they
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stupid from One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is
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-- Bertrand Russell If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, 'cause there's a million ways
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-- H. G. Wells, dying words Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never
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-- Unknown history student Shopping
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because
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-- G. K. Chesterton Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in
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-- Calvin Shopping
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-- James Lowell To love another person is to see the face of God.
-- Lyric from Les Miserables Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
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-- ROBERT FROST A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats.
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- George Burns Shopping
A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
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-- Jean Kerr If it weren't for electricity we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
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-- Charlie Chaplin We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we
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-- Cybi Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing.
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-- Oscar Wilde A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
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-- Sioux Indian Prayer Shopping
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Experience teaches only the teachable.
-- Aldous Huxley "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
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-- Neils Bohr Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise Shopping The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
-- Ellen Hubbard Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few.
-- George Bernard Shaw Nothing says lovin' like marrying your cousin!
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