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War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
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I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.: Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
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What you risk reveals what you value.: Jeanette Winterson
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Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.: Ken Hakuta
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Never answer a critic, unless he's right.: Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
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)
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.: Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech during 1952 Presidential Campaign
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.: Gordon Atkinson, weblog, 04-29-04
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.: G. H. Hardy (1877 - 1947)
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.: Harper Lee (1926 - ), To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960
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Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.: Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003
Oppression can only survive through silence.: Carmen de Monteflores
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Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.: Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do.: Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972)
I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.: Adrienne E. Gusoff
I hate women because they always know where things are.: James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
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I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.: Dame Rose Macaulay (1881 - 1958)
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.: Peter Ustinov (1921 - 2004)
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.: Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
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