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You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.: Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.: Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.: Austin O'Malley
One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944)
Our children change us... whether they live or not.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.: Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.: Joan D. Vinge, Catspaw
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.: Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
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We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.: Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004
Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?: Unknown, Dan Fielding in "Night Court"
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.: Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)
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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.: Franklin P. Jones
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The business of America is not business. Neither is it war. The business of America is justice and securing the blessings of liberty.: George F. Will (1941 - )
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Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.: William Lyon Phelps
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Sometimes the lies you tell are less frightening than the loneliness you might feel if you stopped telling them.: Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England, 2007
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.: Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)