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If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon.: George Aiken
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Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves.: Peter McArthur
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You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.: Meredith Willson, The Music Man
I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.: Paul Eldridge
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Only the mediocre are always at their best.: Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944)
The way to final freedom is within thy self.: The Book of the Golden Precepts
May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.: Hadewijch of Antwerp
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.: Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.: Howard Dietz
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We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.: Adelle Davis (1904 - 1974)
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Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do necessary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.: Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900 - 1944), "The Little Prince", 1943
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Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.: Arab Proverb
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Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?: Frank Scully
Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.: Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
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