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Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.: Lichty and Wagner
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Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.: Jane Goodall (1934 - )
Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.: Amelia Earhart (1897 - 1937)
It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.: Jerome K. Jerome (1859 - 1927)
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There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.: Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
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But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.: Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Happy Death
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.: Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
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They sicken of the calm, who knew the storm.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), 'Fair Weather,' Sunset Gun, 1928
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Pygmalion, Act 2
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.: John Adams (1735 - 1826)
God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.: Jane Wagner
Everything you do in life, every choice you make, has a consequence. When you do things without thinkin', then you ain't makin' the choice. The choice is makin' you.: Mark Steven Johnson, Ghostrider, 2007
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.: Marie Curie (1867 - 1934)
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