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I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.: Holly Lisle, Fire In The Mist, 1992
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.: Eugene S. Wilson
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It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
The body says what words cannot.: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
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There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there. There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years — block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Election Night Speech in Chicago, 11-04-08
School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come.: Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 10-09-11
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Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.: Publilius Syrus (~100 BC)
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.: Robert A. Humphrey
You can observe a lot just by watching.: Yogi Berra (1925 - ), Berra's Law
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.: Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD)
Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts.: John Gunther (1901 - 1970)
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There is hardly any personal defect which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Persuasion, 1818
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Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!: Og Mandino (1923 - 1996)
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.: Willie Tyler
Anonymity is the truest expression of altruism.: Eric Gibson, in The Wall Street Journal
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.: Edmund Spenser (1552 - 1599), 'The Fate of the Butterfly,' 1591
When a miracle happens, even if not to you, its nature is to naturally expand. You can almost feel the warmth on your face.: Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 06-02-04
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
Almost everything: all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure. These things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), Stanford Commencement Address, 2005
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