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The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.: Jane Wyman (1914 - )
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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I've always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, "Ain't that the truth.": Quincy Jones, Victory of the Spirit
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.: Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680)
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We're not lost. We're locationally challenged.: John M. Ford
It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for. What they're willing to lie for.: David Shore, House M.D., Three Stories, 2004
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Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.: Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or even incompetence.: Gordon Atkinson, Gospel Living in a Superficial World, 05-30-06
The past with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, it punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.: Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.: Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
Management is nothing more than motivating other people.: Lee Iacocca (1924 - )
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Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.: Mae West (1892 - 1980), Klondike Annie (1936 film)
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Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.: Colleen Wainwright, Communicatrix, 08-06-08
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We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.: Robert Wilensky, speech at a 1996 conference
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No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.: Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Pride and Prejudice, 1811
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.: W. N. Taylor
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.: George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
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I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.: Joe Walsh