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Fish and visitors smell in three days.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790), Poor Richard's Almanack, 1736
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.: Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.: Bertha Calloway
I didn't really say everything I said.: Yogi Berra (1925 - )
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I have a right to my anger, and I don't want anybody telling me I shouldn't be, that it's not nice to be, and that something's wrong with me because I get angry.: Maxine Waters, in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, 1989
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Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
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The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.: Hasidic Saying
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When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
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The body says what words cannot.: Martha Graham (1894 - 1991)
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Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place.: Ben Azai, Mishna
Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.: Robert Orben
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebook, 1935
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Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones.: Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 8, 2003
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The best way to get approval is not to need it.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 27, 08-22-04
Freedom is a possession of inestimable value.: Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), 'Treasury for the Free World,' 1946
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It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.: Homer (800 BC - 700 BC)
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.: Nancy Reagan (1921 - )