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"You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.
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Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Public office is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-- Boies Penrose, 1931 My religion consists of a humble admiration of the unlimitable superior who reveals Himself in the
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- Oscar Wilde "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain
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-- Oscar Wilde Local Government
Some men are born with cold feet; some acquire cold feet; and some have cold feet thrust upon
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-- Anonymous Local Government Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
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"People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne I read the book of Job last night - I don't think God comes out well in it.
-- Virginia Woolf "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
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-- Nick Mirov Local Government Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
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-- Paul Ehrlich A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Local Government
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than
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-- Thornton Wilder "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) Only the little people pay taxes.
-- Leona Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989 Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through
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-- Albert Einstein "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Local Government
Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
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-- Ralph Waldo Emerson Local Government
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." (Mark Twain) The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not
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-- Isaac Asimov We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
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Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.
-- Gloria Steinem God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
-- Voltaire We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
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-- Marie Tonkin Local Government
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Use your own best judgment at all times.
-- The entire Nordstrom's Department Stores policy manual Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein The gods too are fond of a joke.
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-- Will Rogers Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.
-- Lord Byron "Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come." (Perry Paxton) Local Government
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
-- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." (Helen Keller) All marriages are happy--it's the living together afterward that causes all the problems. The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
-- William Hazlitt "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) Local Government Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
-- Aldous Huxley The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. The best defense is a good offense.
-- Anonymous Local Government
