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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.: Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you.: William Blake (1757 - 1827)
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
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You can't help someone get up a hill without getting closer to the top yourself.: H. Norman Schwarzkopf (1934 - )
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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Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.: Malayan Proverb
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Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix.: Christina Baldwin
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Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.: Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931)
Do thou restrain the haughty spirit in thy breast, for better far is gentle courtesy.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC)