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What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), University of Michigan Commencement, 2010
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That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 01-04-07
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The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.: Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.: Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, July 7, 2003
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The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.: Saint Jerome (374 AD - 419 AD)
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), "The Crack-Up" (1936)
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None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.: Ferdinand Foch (1851 - 1929)
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How his death hung over that house. It’s part of what I know to be true—your absence is greater than your presence.: Michael Hainey, After Visiting Friends: A Son's Story, 2013
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Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.: David T. Wolf (1943 - )
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Every crowd has a silver lining.: Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810 - 1891)
It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them.: Joseph de Maistre
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
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We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They all seem to go together like one little tidy confusing package. It's a messy business, life. It's hard to figure--full of surprises. Some good. Some bad.: Henry Bromel, Northern Exposure, The Big Kiss, 1991
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.: Greg Evans, Luann (comic), September 27, 2003
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Years ago my mother said to me, 'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant.' For years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.: Mary Chase (1887 - 1973), Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in "Harvey", 1950
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.: Walter Bagehot (1826 - 1877)
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Leave each one his touch of folly; it helps to lighten life's burden which, if he could see himself as he is, might be too heavy to carry.: John Lancaster Spalding
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.: Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues' initials on 'em, and pass them along. When in doubt, route.: Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.: Slovenian Proverb
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