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Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.: Claude Bernard (1813 - 1878)
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Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.: Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)
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Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.: Dan Rather (1931 - )
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Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.: Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965)
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.: William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.: Gertrude Stein (1874 - 1946), The Geographical History of America (1936)
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Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.: Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973), quoted in O Magazine, May 2003
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), Strength to Love, 1963
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One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.: Alice James
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The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.: William James (1842 - 1910)
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade?: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
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When a man plays a woman in a dress, you're halfway there. It's inherently funny. When a woman plays a man, for whatever reason, it's not that instant kind of funny.: Tina Fey, ABC-TV World News Now
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The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.: Eric Berne (1910 - 1970)
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Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.: Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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The most profound statements are often said in silence.: Lynn Johnston (1947 - ), For Better or For Worse, 01-15-04
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Let's assume that each person has an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different. To realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.: John Fischer
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.: Agnes de Mille (1909 - 1993)
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