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The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), The Conduct of Life, 'Fate,' 1860
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.: Czech Proverb
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Children are all foreigners.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
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A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.: Sir Barnett Cocks (1907 - 1989)
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A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.: Fats Domino (1928 - )
Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his.: George S. Patton (1885 - 1945), (attributed)
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I read part of it all the way through.: Samuel Goldwyn (1882 - 1974)
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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.: Anatole Broyard
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I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.: Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)
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The best way to learn to be an honest, responsible adult is to live with adults who act honestly and responsibly.: Claudia Jewett Jarrett, Adopting the Older Child, 1978
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Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.: Margaret Cho, Margaret Cho's weblog, 03-23-06
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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.: Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), speech to the Republican National Committee, January 31, 1958
Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness.: Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
Little by little, one travels far.: J. R. R. Tolkien (1892 - 1973)
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.: Havelock Ellis (1859 - 1939)
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A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.: Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.: Horace Mann (1796 - 1859), address at Antioch College, 1859
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