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The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.: Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.: Henry James (1843 - 1916)
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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.: Italian Proverb
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The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.: Malcolm X (1925 - 1965)
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.: Daniel J. Boorstin (1914 - )
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A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.: Senator Everett Dirksen (1896 - 1969)
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Just a word of advice. Whenever you're furious with your parents or you think they're terrible, just remember, you vomited on them and they kept you.: John Green (1977 - ), Vlogbrothers, The Five Worst Places to Vomit, 09-04-12
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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 - 1962)
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I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.: Emo Phillips, Neuropsychology: Clinical and Experimental Foundations
I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.: Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.: Muriel Spark (1918 - )
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.: Charles Victor Cherbuliez
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.: Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.: David Starr Jordan (1851 - 1931)
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.: Shakti Gawain
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.: Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
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Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!: Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.: Doug Larson
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.: Pancho Villa (1877 - 1923), last words