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"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything."
- Katherine Hepburn

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity."
-Omar Idn Al-Halif

The question "Who ought to be boss?" is like as "Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.
- Henry Ford

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910, U.S. humorist, writer, in "Pudd'n head

Love is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand."
-Mother Teresa

Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none."
- William Shakespeare

"Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the
ordinary man sees one."
- Ezra Pound

"The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life."
- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price."
--Robert Orben

An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible."
-- Unknown

"We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present."
-Marianne Williamson

"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
- C.S. Lewis

"If newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own."
- James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

"Newspaper editor are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff."
- Adlai Stevenson

"The old nobility would have survived if they had known enough to become masters of printing materials."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"The indispensable requirement for a good newspaper-- as eager to tell a lie as the truth."
- Norman Mailer

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are stiffened."
-Billy Graham

Whenever you feel like asking for advice, you may want to think twice about your motivation.

"We ask advice, but we mean approbation."
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832), English author, clergyman

"No one wants advice -- only corroboration."
- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) U.S. author

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
- Erica Jong (b. 1942), U.S. author

"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays

"I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process."
- Oprah Winfrey

"One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody-everything everynight before you go to bed."
-Bernard Baruch

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
-Confucius

"Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
-Abraham Lincoln

"He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life."
-Lauter

"You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose."
-Lou Holtz

The quickest way to end a war is to lose it."
- George Orwell

"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."
- Dale Carnegie

For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news."
- Gloria Borger

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."
- e. e. cummings

The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-Lily Tomlin

We live by encouragement and die without it - slowly, sadly, angrily."
-Celeste Holm

Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

"In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

"Your mind is like a parachute. It only works if it is open."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

"The people who oppose your ideas the most are those who represent the establishment that your ideas will upset."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

"Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance."
- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

"Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight."
- Phyllis Diller

"The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret."
- Henny Youngman

"Back of every achievement is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law."
- Brooks Hays

"People are always asking couples whose marriages have endured at least a quarter of a century for their secret for success. Actually, it is no secret at all. I am a forgiving woman. Long ago, I forgave my husband for not being Paul Newman."
- Erma Bombeck

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs."
- Malcolm Forbes

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
- William Feather

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks."
- John Lyly

"Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids... on my desk in little jars!"
--Stephen King

"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf."
-- Lewis Mumford

"If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars in the bank and no checkbook."
-Les Giblin

"Worry does not empty tommorow of its sorrow; it empties today of its joy."
-Unknown

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill."
-Muhammad Ali

"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."
-James Baldwin

"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside."
-Denis Waitley

"You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lip."
-Oliver Goldsmith

"True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance."
-Akhenaton

"The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Groucho Marx, quotes--

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five."

"Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped."

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."

"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member."

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."

"When I picked up your book I was so convulsed with laughter that I had to set it down, but one day I intend to read it."

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."

"Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere."

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today."
-Stacia Tauscher

"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own."
-Benjamin Disraeli

"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists."
-Japanese proverb

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
-Tom Brokaw

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them."
-Joseph Brodsky

"When you read a book, you hold another's mind in your hands."
-James Burke

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator."
-Francis Bacon

"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away."
-Tom Clancy

"Every man is a moon, and has a dark side, which he never shows to anybody."
-Mark Twain

"Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be."
-Clementine Paddleford

"Man shall never reach the moon for such a quantity of gunpowder would be needed as to gravely injure the crew."
-Childrens Encyclopaedia, 1926

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath - so what does that make today worth?"
-Og Mandino

"When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half."
-Gracie Allen

"Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live."
-- Margaret Fuller

"Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock."
-- Pablo Picasso

"Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?"
-- J. Paul Getty

"If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got."
- W.L. Bateman

I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.
-Richard Nixon

None are so empty as those who are full of themselves."
-Benjamin Whichcote

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government." - Edward Abbey (1927-1989) US author

"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle."
- James Russell Lowell, FiresideTravels

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
-Arthur Ashe

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
-Ben Franklin

"If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you."
- T.S. Eliot

What I'm looking for is a blessing that's NOT in disguise."
-Kitty O'Neill Collins

"You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own."
- Clarence Day

"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
-Calvin Coolidge

"It is bad luck to be superstitious."

- Andrew W. Mathis

"Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope."
- John Johnson

Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective but this is not the case.A We see the world not as it is but as we are conditioned to see it.
- Stephen R. Covey

I have had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time."
- Sam Walton

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside."
-Wayne Dyer

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Gandhi

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
- Mark Twain

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."
- Langston Hughes

"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs."
-Anonymous

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
-General H. Norman Schwarzkopf

"Our ego is our silent partner -- too often with a controlling interest."
-Cullen Hightower

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."
-Confucius

"You must be single minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided."
- George S. Patton

I'd rather be a failure in something that I love than a success in something that I don't."
- George Burns

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."
-Antointe de Saint-Exupery

"We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't."
-Frank A. Clark

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours"
-Thoreau

"Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself."
-Alfred Sheinwold

"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
-Harry Emerson Fosdick

"There is a theory which states that if anyone discovers exactly what the Universe if for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is
another which states that this has already happened."

"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen."

"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. "

If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
-George Carlin

"If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books."
- Alan King

"Ah -- love -- the walks over soft grass, the smiles over candlelight, the arguments over just about everything else."
- Max Headroom

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished."
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

"Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years."
- Richard Bach, "Illusions"

"Count your age with friends but not with years."
- Anonymous

"A true friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until lost."
- Chinese Proverb

"Flatterers look like friends, as wolves like dogs."
- George Chapman

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."
--John F. Kennedy

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
--Mohammed Ali

Journalism is the ability to meet the challenge of filling space."
- Rebecca West

"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves."
- Dale Carnegie

"Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark."
- Samuel Johnson

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."
- Marcus Aurelius

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler."
- Albert Einstein

"When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?"
- Sydney J. Harris

"Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen."
- Samuel Paterson

"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books."
- Chinese Proverb

No one will ever win the battle of the sexes: there's too much fraternizing with the enemy."
-Henry Kissinger

You can observe a lot just by watching.
-Yogi Berra

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
-William Blake

The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And, because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how our failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.
-R. D. Laing

"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
-Ralph Waldo Emmerson

"The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love, do not require coupons."
- G.T. Hewitt

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) (Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.)

"Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
-Walter Andersen

Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt."
-Kin Hubbard

Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every decision you make, the words from your mouth will be empty, and each action will be meaningless. Truth and confidence are the roots of happiness."
- Kathleen Pedersen

These days, the wages of sin depend on what kind of deal you make with the publisher."
-Ivern Ball

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."
- Zig Ziglar

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."
- Bernice Johnson Reagon

"People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges."
--Unknown

"Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it... The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."
--Woodrow Wilson

Imagine believing in the control of inflation by curbing the money supply! That is like deciding to stop your dog fouling the sidewalk by plugging up its rear end. It is highly unlikely to succeed, but if it does it kills the hound."
--Michael D. Stephens

You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art."
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)

"A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier."
- Gustave Flaubert

"A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car."
- Kenneth Tynan (1865-1957)

"No statue has ever been put up to a critic."
- Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

"You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it."
- Samuel Butler, Notebooks

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books."
--John Lubbock

Art Is Long, Life Is Short

There are so many skills and so much knowledge to acquire that a lifetime is not long enough to do it.

Tremendous happiness and peace of mind are the results of loving service to others. Nobody can live fully and happily who lives only unto himself or herself

"Some people make things happen, some watch while things happen, and some wonder 'What happened?'"
-- Unknown

A democratic government is only as strong as the alert conscience of its people."
-Charles W. Tobey

"Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together."
--Carl Zwanzig

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
- William F. Buckley, Jr.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
- Herbert Hoover

The idealist is incorrigible. If he is turned out of his heaven, he makes an ideal out of his hell.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"
-- Clarence Darrow

"The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence."
-- Joan Baez

"Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!"
-- Matt Frewer as Dr. Mike Stratford in "Doctor, Doctor"

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
--Elizabeth Bowen

The only thing that ever sat it's way to success was a hen."
-Sarah Brown

"Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Learn to listen. Opportunity could be knocking at your door very softly.
--Frank Tyger

a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
-Joseph E. O'Donnell

"Be a fountain, not a drain."
-Rex Hudler

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody."
-- W. S. Gilbert

"Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation."
-- Howard Scott

"The basic difference between an ordinary person and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary person takes everything as a blessing or a curse."
- Carlos Castaneda

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
--Henry Steele Commager

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

"So of cheerfulness, or a good temper... the more it is spent, the more it remains."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Problems are only opportunities in work clothes."
-Henry J. Kaiser

"My grandfather told me, 'Never let your mind write a check that your body isn't prepared to cash.' "
-Red Green

"Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."
-Lady Bird Johnson

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
--Robert F. Kennedy

"I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 4:00 in the afternoon, I'd be a college graduate today."
- George Foreman (1949-) US boxer

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind."
- Samuel Johnson

"Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find."
-- Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

"They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them."
-- Eeyore, Pooh's Little Instruction Book

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."
-- Helen Keller

"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage."
- Victor Kiam

Rain does not fall on one roof alone.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish."
- John Ray

"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top."
- Unknown

"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
- Thomas Huxley

"The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
- William Shakespeare

Sarcasm is the safe alternative to expressing anger."
--Richard North Patterson

You live and learn. At any rate, you live."
-- Douglas Adams

"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."
-- Quentin Crisp

Begin somewhere. You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.
-- Liz Smith

Truth hurts--not the searching after, the running from!"
- John Eyberg

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved."
- W.J. Bryant

"A memory is a photograph taken by the heart to make a special moment last forever."
- Anonymous

"Memory is the personal journalism of the soul."
- Richard Schickel

"One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget."
- Franklin P. Jones

"A clear conscience is most often a sign of a bad memory."
- Unknown

"The big thieves hang the little ones."
-- Czech proverb

There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.
-William Hazlitt

Better shun the bait than struggle in the snare.
- John Dryden

As the Sandwich-Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptations we resist.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a moveable body.
-H. L. Mencken

The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.
--Milo Bloom

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for its own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts"
-Mary Ellen Chase

"As you see yourself, I once saw myself; as you see me now, you will be seen."
- Mexican Proverbs

"I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on."
- Oscar Levant

"We need laws that protect everyone. Men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion."
- Bella Abzug, New York politician (address a rally for the Equal Rights Amendment)

"For seven and half years I've worked alongside President Reagan. We've had triumphs. Made some mistakes. We've had some sex... uh...setbacks."
- President George Bush (stated when Vice President)

"[I ask you to] work together with me for a better life for oil... I mean all."
- Senator Henry Jackson, campaigning in 1976

"The United Sates has much to offer the third world war."
- President Ronald Reagan (state in a speech on what the US has to offer the Third World.A he repeated this error nine times in the same speech.)

"My fellow Americans. I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes."
- President Ronald Reagan (famous mic check just before he was going to make a radio broadcast. He was showing his humorous side.)

My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no character."
- Charles Barkley, on hearing Tonya Harding proclaim herself "the Charles Barkley of figure skating"

You've got to say, "I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it." It's called perseverance.
-Lee J. Iacocca

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
- Babe Ruth

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."
- J. B. Yeats, Letters to His Son

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
- Nelson Mandela

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it."
-- Elias Schwartz

"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you."
-- Larry Gelbart

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

He who does not cultivate his field, will die of hunger.

"Freedom is when the people can speak, democracy is when the government listens."
-Alastair Farrugia

"Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude."
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Time 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

"A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken."
-James Dent

"Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you."
-Maori Proverb

A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.
-- Ancient Proverb

"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad."
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them."
-Joshua Liebman

"Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth."
-Thich Nhat Hanh

"Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much."
-Luke 16:10

To begin to think with purpose is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment."
- James Allen

"Ideas must work through the brains and arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams."

The fool is thirsty in the midst of water.

"No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor."
- Andrew Carnegie

"A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble."
-Mohandas Gandhi

"The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a veil."
- Bede Jarrett, The House of Gold

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Carl Sagan

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
- Albert Einstein

"The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop."
- P. J. O'Rourke

The Everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
-Charles Kuralt

"You know there is a problem with the education system when you realize that out of the 3 R's only one begins with an R."
--Dennis Miller

"Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in a year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another gets a full year's value out of a week."
-Charles Richards

"If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners."
- Johnny Carson

"Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do."
- Jose Ortega Y Gasset

"If it's painful for you to criticize your friends- you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it- that's the time to hold your tongue."
-Alice Duer Miller

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