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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are
capable of being.
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-- Fran Lebowitz "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
- Lucille S. Harper Recreation and Sports
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
-- Josephus Daniels "Nobody minds having what is too good for them." (Jane Austen) The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.
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Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword.
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-- Latin Proverb Recreation and Sports
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-- Lord Byron Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to
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-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President Recreation and Sports
He early on let her know who is the boss. He looked her right in the eye and clearly said, "You're
the boss."
-- Anonymous If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
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-- Beaumont, Francis Recreation and Sports He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
-- J. Heller I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
-- Gandhi I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be
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-- Anne S Recreation and Sports
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the
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-- Mark Twain Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
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-- Benjamin Disraeli "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Recreation and Sports The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
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-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Recreation and Sports
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for
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-- Rich Little Every child is born a genius.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller It's no credit to anyone to work to hard.
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Conversation, fastidious Goddess, loves blood better than brick, and feasts most subtly on the
human will.
-- Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
-- Gamaliel Bradford Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
-- Pablo Picasso "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Recreation and Sports That government is best which governs least.
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-- Polish proverb Recreation and Sports
The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Men have become the tools of their tools.
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-- Samuel Johnson I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.
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-- Bill Moyers Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art
imitates life.
-- Oscar Wilde Recreation and Sports
The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
-- Woodrow Wilson Always talk to your wife while you're making love... if there's a phone handy. "I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found..." (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
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Not to anticipate is already to moan.
-- Leonardo da Vinci Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar
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