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We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.: Jewish Proverb
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.: Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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But seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.: Waiter Rant, Waiter Rant weblog, 11-29-05
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A bully is not reasonable - he is persuaded only by threats.: Marie De France, 12th Century
One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.: Franklin P. Jones
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change in attitude.: Katherine Mansfield (1888 - 1923)
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.: Conan O'Brien, Final Tonight Show Speech, 2010
A mind too active is no mind at all.: Theodore Roethke (1908 - 1963)
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I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832
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Never let the fear of failure be an excuse for not trying. Society tells us that to fail is the most terrible thing in the world, but I know it isn't. Failure is part of what makes us human.: Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.: Anthony Starr
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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.: Kurdish Proverb
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The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.: A. L. Kitselman
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.: George Moore
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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No matter how far you travel or how much you run from it, can you ever really escape your past?: Becky Hartman Edwards and Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, Escape from New York, 2000
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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