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-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
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-- George Bernard Shaw Porano It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
-- Lou Holtz We do not remember days; we remember moments.
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- Saint Augustine Porano Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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It was just him and me. He fought with honor. If it weren't for his honor, he and the others would
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The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the
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-- W. Somerset Maugham As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust
there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
-- Andre Norton The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it." (Christopher Darlington Morley) Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Porano The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
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false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
-- Salvador Dali Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
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-- Helen Giangregorio Porano Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique
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"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet) The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this
is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I found out that
Uncl The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST A friend is a gift you give yourself.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson Porano We are the echo of the future.
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-- Buddha Porano
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
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-- Kant, Immanuel The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the
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Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
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-- Albert Einstein Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
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-- Salvador Dali Porano The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
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-- Woody Allen The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change
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My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
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-- INDIRA There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-- Robert Frost >From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
-- Sigmund Freud I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox.
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For a male and female to live continuously together is...biologically speaking, an extremely
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-- Robert Briffault Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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