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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962), 'This Is My Story,' 1937
Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.: Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, I Heart NY, 2002
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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914)
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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.: Ken Hakuta
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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.: T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
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There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.: Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895)
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No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.: Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.: William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)
I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech at Amherst College, October 26, 1963
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The big thieves hang the little ones.: Czech Proverb
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Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.: Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
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No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.: Michael Pritchard
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Children might or might not be a blessing, but to create them and then fail them was surely damnation.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
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Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.: Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
It's better to do nothing with your money than something you don't understand.: Suze Orman, O Magazine, February 2003
To be poor and dependent is very nearly an impossibility.: William Cobbett (1763 - 1835), Advice to Young Men, 1829
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Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.: Claude M. Bristol
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.: Al Capone (1899 - 1947)