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- Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
- Margaret Young
- Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
- Don Herold
- Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
- Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
- Unknown
- Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water.
- African Proverb
- One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), The Dosadi Experiment
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