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Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways. - Edward de BonoFame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. - Francis Bacon, 1561 - 1626Upon those who step into the same rivers different

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Fashion can be bought, style one must possess. - Edna Woolman ChaseCustom will reconcile people to any atrocity; and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom. - George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. - George Santayana, 1863 - 1921I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this

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These people who are always briskly doing something and as busy as waltzing mice, they have little, sharp, staccato ideas, such as: I see where I can make an annual cut of $3.47 in my meat budget. But they have no slow, big ideas. - Brenda Ueland, 1891 - 1985Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid only of standing still. - Chinese proverbSlow down and enjoy life. It's not only the

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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty. - Barbara WaltersThey spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910My father's name, when he came to America, was Kassell. At Ellis Island, the registrars changed it to Cohen. I honored my

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A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. - Sophia LorenIn my day a reporter who took an assignment was wholly on his own until he got back to the office, and even then he was little molested until his copy was turned in at the desk; today he tends to become only a homunculus at the end of a telephone wire, and the reduction of his

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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. - Arthur Christopher BensonEvery man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice. - Ayn Rand, 1905 - 1982The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no

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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936The cure for anything is salt water; sweat, tears, or the sea. - Isak Dinesen, pen name of Karen Blixen, 1885 - 1962The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal. -

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March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path. - Kahlil Gibran, 1883 - 1931)Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will. - Thomas Carlyle, 1795 - 1881Don't ever become a

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All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.I love whimsy, don’t you? If you’re going to be working for children, you need to do your best not to lose your childlikeness ... it's wonderful to be able to just be yourself.The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something they really need

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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.- Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.- Henry Van Dyke, 1852 - 1933Be grateful

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Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.- Barbara W. Tuchman, 1912 - 1989 Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.- George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950 If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be

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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.Before God we are equally wise - and equally foolish.Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm

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A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism. - Burton RascoeIn a medium in which a News Piece takes a minute and an In-Depth Piece takes two minutes, the Simple will drive out the Complex. - Frank MankiewiczHalf of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President.

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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that

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Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up. - Edmund RouseWhen life is kicking others in the teeth, become a dentist. - Kevin MeyersRemember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. - Walter Winchell, 1897 - 1972In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if

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To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation. - Albert Camus, 1913 - 1960If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. - Aristotle Onassis, 1906 - 1975The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: They are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating. -

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Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. - Henry Steele Commager, 1902 - 1998It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement. -

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Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to aught that doth on time depend.Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as

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Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.Whatever it is that makes a person charming, it needs to remain a mystery.... Once the charmer is aware of a mannerism or characteristic that others find charming, it ceases to be a mannerism and becomes an affectation. And good Lord, there is nothing less charming than

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Waiting until everything is perfect before making a move is like waiting to start a trip until all the traffic lights are green. - Karen IrelandNatives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. - Mary Ellen KellyGood manners are like traffic rules for society. - Michael LevineIt is disappointing to realize

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All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. - John GuntherMy wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. - Winston Churchill, 1874 - 1965There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace. - Aldo Leopold,

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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.There are some things in painting which cannot be explained, and that something is essential.They tell you that a tree

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Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions. - Alan KeyesIt used to take courage - indeed, it was the act of courage par excellence - to leave the comforts of home and family and go out into the world seeking adventure. Today there are fewer places to

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Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. - Jean Baptiste Alphonse Karr, 1808 - 1890Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. - Brian TracyIf the only prayer you said in your

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All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also.Better is the enemy of good.Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.Nature has made us frivolous to console us for our miseries.The public is a ferocious beast - one must either chain it up or flee from it.The superfluous is very necessary.A witty

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Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.- Booker Taliaferro Washington, 1856 - 1915Inquisitiveness and strength make me want to rise above my valley-bound brothers. I must reach the summit to see the truth.- Delores SeatsRise above principal and do what's right.- Joseph Heller, 1923 -

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A life that hasn't a definite plan is likely to become driftwood. - David SarnoffChop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. - Henry Ford, 1863 - 1947Follow the grain in your own wood. - Howard ThurmanAnd the wind said: May you be as strong as the oak, yet flexible as the birch; may you stand astall as the redwood, live gracefully as the willow; and may you always bear fruit all

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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists. - Anita BrooknerRomance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. - Elinor Glyn, 1864 - 1943In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes. - Elizabeth AshleyTrue love comes quietly, without banners

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The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who posses it;

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Color is my day-long obsession, joy, and torment.Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the

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A happy life is joy in the truth.He who conceals a useful truth is equally guilty with the propagator of an injurious falsehood.If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make

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After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather. - Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. - Frank A. ClarkWithout the rain, there would be no rainbow. - Jerry ChinThe good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 -

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To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic. - Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine, 1790 - 1869It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil. - Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905 - 1961The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us,

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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community. - Andrew Carnegie, 1835 - 1919Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. - Euripides, 484 - 406 BCNothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods,

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In life, as in football, you don't go far unless you know where the goalposts are. - Arnold H. GlasgowBeing in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthyFootball is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings. - George F.

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A good battle plan that you act on today can be better than a perfect one tomorrow.All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty.Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.I want you to remember that no son of a bitch ever won a war by dying for his

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Doubt whom you will, but never yourself. - Christian Nestell Bovee, 1820 - 1904If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - René Descartes, 1596 - 1650If a man will begin in certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin in doubts he shall end in certainties. - Francis

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Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. - Albert Camus, 1913 - 1960Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility. - George Santayana, 1863 - 1921Those who misrepresent the normal experiences of life, who decry being controversial, who shun risk, are the enemies of the

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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.- Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys.- P. J. O'RourkeAs a cure for

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After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.- Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.- Frank A. ClarkAnd when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.- Jerry ChinThe good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave

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We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.-Will RogersThose who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: 'Tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.-Ralph Waldo Emerson There is an election going on all the time... the Lord votes for you and Satan votes against you, and you must cast the deciding vote.-AnonymousSooner will a

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If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation it would appear that God has a special fondness for stars and beetles.This is my prediction for the future - whatever hasn't happened will happen and no one will be safe from it.I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own

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The small businessman is smart; he realizes there's no free lunch. On the other hand, he knows where to go to get a good inexpensive sandwich.- Adam Osborne, 1939 - 2003Even a modestly competent district attorney can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.- Sol WachtlerToo few people understand a really good sandwich.- James BeardIt has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in

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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.- Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.- May Sarton, 1912 - 1995The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.- Thomas Alva Edison, 1847 - 1931Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never

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If fear alters behavior, you're already defeated.- Brenda HammondMany of our fears are tissue paper thin, and a single courageous step would carry us clear through them.- Brendan FrancisYou can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.- Eric Hoffer, 1902 - 1983He who fears he shall suffer already suffers what he fears.- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, 1533 -

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Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.- Andrew Jackson, 1767 - 1845Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.- Ann Morrow Lindbergh, 1906 - 2001Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.- Carl Sandburg, 1878 -

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Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.- Clarence ThomasDefect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882The test of good manners is to be patient with bad ones.- Solomon Ibn Gabirol, 1022 - 1058Be polite to all, but intimate with few.- Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826Those that are good

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception, and ignorance, but it isn't - it's human.Nowadays the rage for possession has got

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Painting isn't a question of sensibility; it's a matter of seizing the power, taking over from nature, not expecting her to supply you with information and good advice.Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.Every positive value has its price in negative terms, and you never see anything very great which is not, at the same time, horrible in some respect. The

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If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room. - Anita KoddickIt has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the more important. - Arthur Conan Doyle, 1858 - 1930The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own

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Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.Friendship is like a sheltering tree.He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.Language is the

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Architecture is the purest of the plastic arts, for it does not reproduce scenes from nature and it does not borrow any literary interest by representing subjects. It stands by itself on its own ground. - Clementina Caroline Anstruther-Thomson, 1857 - 1921Architecture is inhabited sculpture. - Constantin Brancusi, 1876 - 1957In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation,

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You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment. - Alvin TofflerA man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. - Charles F. Kettering, 1876 - 1958The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability

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When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with all other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.- John Muir, 1838 - 1914But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and

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When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity, which delights you and makes you giddy.- Ferdinand Hodler, 1853 - 1918There are moments on most days when I feel a deep and sincere gratitude, when I sit at the open window, and there is a blue sky or moving clouds.- Kaethe Kollwitz, 1867 - 1945We all live under the same sky, but we don't have the same horizon.- Konrad Adenauer, 1876 -

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If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would pick more daisies. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary ones.- Don Herold, 1889 - 1966Spend everyday casual, but industrious; Every moment alert, but relaxed.- Guy FinleyIf a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a

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Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.- Alfred A. MontapertTrust also your own judgment, for it is your most reliable counselor. A man's mind has sometimes a way of telling him more than seven watchmen posted on a high tower.- EcclesiasticusIf we had a reliable way to label

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The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.Years ago, I tried to top everybody, but I don't anymore. I realized it was killing conversation. When you're always trying for a topper you aren't really listening. It ruins communication.Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.I, not

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The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.Formerly a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary to keep him properly in the public eye.I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or

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Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. - Ezra Loomis Pound, 1885 - 1972These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. - Gilbert Highet, 1906 - 1978[A] book ... unlike a television program, moving picture or any other "

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To love for the sake of being loved is human, But to love for the sake of loving is angelic.- Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine, 1790 - 1869It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.- Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905 - 1961The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we

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The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. - Edsger DijkstraComputers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. - Joseph CampbellA computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. - Mitch RatliffeOn the

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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. - Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865Courage is not the towering oakThat sees storms come and go;It is the fragile blossomThat opens in the snow. - Alice Mackenzie SwaimTimes of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest

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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.Poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may

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It's a damned poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. - Andrew Jackson, 1767 - 1845A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. - Burtram Mark Bacharach, 1898 - 1983I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright, 1867 - 1959We need programs that will teach athletes how to spell “jump shot” rather than how to shoot it

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Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. - Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life. - Charles Scribner, Jr.The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites,

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There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. - Carl Gustav Jung, 1875 - 1961Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same old dog's rear end every day. - Darrell RoyalLife's unfairness is not

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.Advertising is legalized lying.Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.Beauty is in

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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Lewis Mencken, 1880 - 1956The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate. - Bern WilliamsEven pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag. - Bela

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before. To test your limits. To break through barriers. 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. - Anaïs Nin, 1903 - 1977People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved. - Anne SullivanGod

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Bronze is the mirror of the form; wine, of the heart. - Aeschylus, 525 - 456 BCThere are three principal ways to lose money: wine, women, and engineers. While the first two are more pleasant, the third is by far the more certain. - Baron RothschildI will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. - Johann Wolfgang

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Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.Liberty is not a matter of words, but a positive and important condition of society. Its greatest safeguard after placing its

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The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. - Alan Ashley-PittFainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus. - Alfred Victor Vigny, 1797 - 1863Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're

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Attempt the impossible in order to improve you work. - Bette Davis, 1908 - 1989The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility. - Charles F. Kettering, 1876 - 1958Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible. - Doug LarsonThe major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that

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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. - Burrhus Frederick Skinner, 1904 - 1990It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends. - Dr. Samuel Johnson, 1709 - 1784Attacking is the only secret.

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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.Harshness towards individuals who flout the laws and commands of the state is for the public good; no greater crime against the public interest is possible than to show leniency to those who violate it.Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. In everything man has accomplished, we have only manipulated nature into doing what it is. - Francis Bacon, 1561 - 1626...nobody has the right to manipulate anybody or to impress anybody with his stronger personality, not even for the other's imagined good, for nobody can know what that good is. This is courtesy rather than callousness, for the other's

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Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. - Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955Congenial labor is the secret of happiness. - Arthur C. BensonIt is only by labor that thought can be made healthy, and only by thought that labor can be made happy, and the two cannot be separated with impunity. - John Ruskin, 1819 - 1900Manual labor to

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At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me. - Barnaby C. Keeney, Brown UniversityI find the three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. - Clark Kerr, University of California at BerkeleyMuch that

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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait. - A. Whitney BrownEducation is the process of casting false pearls before real swine. - Irsin EdmanSoap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue more clever than

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To those who think that liberty is a good thing, and that it may someday be possible for people to live in a society fit for free, fully human individuals, a thorough education in the nature of language, its uses and abuses, seems indispensable. - Aldous Leonard Huxley, 1894 - 1963Genius without education is like silver in the mine. - Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790The one real object of

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It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table. - Angelo Bartlett Giamatti, 1938 - 1989When the student is ready. . . the lesson appears. - Gene OliverWhoever ceases to be a student has never been a student. - George IlesIt is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their

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Blessed be the memory of those who have left their blood, their spirits, their lives, in these precious books, and have willingly wasted themselves into these enduring monuments, to give light unto others. - Bishop Joseph Hall, 1574 - 1656Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which

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If kids come to us [teachers] from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important. - Barbara ColoroseThe dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you on to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called

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The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. - Ernest RenanAs we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that, thank Heaven, nobody is reporting in this fashion on us. - John Boynton Priestley, 1894 - 1984High school is closer to the core of the American experience than

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The thing that I still come back away with is how close so many people feel to the mountain [Mount Rainier] emotionally and psychically, and yet how far away the world is when you're on the mountain. - Bruce BarcottThe great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time. -

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Advice, n. The suggestions you give someone else which you hope will work for your benefit. - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1881 - 1906The best advice one can offer to both press and public is the suggestion Ronald Reagan himself gave to students in Chicago ... “Don't let me get away with it. Check me out. Don't be the sucker generation.” - Jean Nathan MillerBy its very

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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. - AesopThe best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. - Aristotle, 384 - 322 BCA Dream is woven from thin air and nothing, Embroidered with wishes and everything, Then filled with the padding of hope and delight. - James W. KingHappy is the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes

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Four be the things I'd have been better without:love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be a darling at it.Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.The best way to

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One pill makes you largerand one pill makes you smallAnd the ones that mother gives youdon't do anything at all.Go ask Alicewhen she's ten feet tall. - Grace Slick, White Rabbit, 1967You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims - Harriet WoodsTo expect to rule others by assuming a loud tone is like thinking oneself tall by putting on high

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An occasional lucky guess as to what makes a wife tick is the best a man can hope for, Even then, no sooner has he learned how to cope with the tick than she tocks.Family: A unit composed not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds

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Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.He who hesitates is a damned fool.I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an

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That fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which, therefore, the true value cannot be assigned. - Dr Samuel Johnson, 1709 - 1784All that is gold does not glitter;not all those that wander are lost. - John

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When there is good news, and it is news, we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.We call them twinkies. You've seen them on television acting the news, modeling and fracturing the news while you wonder whether they've read the news - or if they've blown dried their

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to ArrasWe are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. - R. Buckminster Fuller, 1895 - 1983A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. -

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Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world. - Charles Hanson TowneWith the pride of an artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists, the small trumpet of your defiance. - Norman MailerWisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down. - Olive SchreinerEach time a man stands up for an

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Men do not invent Myths. They only invent fables, and tell lies. True Myths create themselves, and find their expression in the men who serve their purpose. - Denis JohnstonEach religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. - George Santayana, 1863 -

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Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.... The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. - Frank Herbert, 1920 - 1986Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of the few; and number not

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We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin. - Andre BerthiaumeOne day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings. - Franklin ThomasWe are

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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted. - Leaving Home (1987)Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. - We Are Still Married (1989)My ancestors were Puritans from England. They arrived

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