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Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.: Ben Jonson (1572 - 1637)
If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.: John Abrams, The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community and Place
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 Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), quoted in New York Times, March 19, 1940
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Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC), Moral Sayings, 100 B.C.
As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Nomination Acceptance Speech, 08-28-08
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To follow, without halt, one aim: There's the secret of success.: Anna Pavlova (1885 - 1931)
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How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children: Lewis B. Frumkes, Book Title (1983)
How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!: Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
The crowd gives the leader new strength.: Evenius
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You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961), New Yorker, Apr. 29, 1939 "The Bear Who Let It Alone"
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.: Emile Chartier
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If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.: Eddie Izzard, Dress To Kill
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), Lynn on Ideas
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.: Bill Gates (1955 - ), Time Magazine, January 13, 1996
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.: Professor Irwin Corey (1914 - )
Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.: Dr. David M. Burns
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Let's assume that each person has an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different. To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.: John Fischer