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Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.): Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), "Song of Myself"
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.: Joseph Roux
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Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), New York TImes, Apr. 29, 1930
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.: Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888), 'God and the Bible,' 1875
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - 1821)
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For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.: Alice Kahn
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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.: Spanish Proverb
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The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.: Bill Gates (1955 - ), Business @ The Speed of Thought
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Joy is not in things; it is in us.: Richard Wagner
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In a mad world only the mad are sane.: Akira Kurosawa (1910 - 1998)
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We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.: Carl Sagan (1934 - 1996)
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A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.: Louis L'Amour (1908 - 1988), 'Bendigo Shafter'
You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you.: Sarah Ban Breathnach
Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.: John Lancaster Spalding
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.: W. N. Taylor
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Success only hurts the first time.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 04-01-2006
We didn't think much in the air corps of a fellow who wangled a cushy job out of his C.O. by buttering him up. It was hard for me to believe that God thought much of a man who tried to wangle salvation by fulsome flattery. I should have thought the worship most pleasing to him was to do your best according to your lights.: W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Razor's Edge, 1943
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Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.: Jack Nicklaus (1940 - ), 'My Story'