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It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.: Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
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They certainly give very strange names to diseases.: Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Put your whole self into it, and you will find your true voice. Hold back and you won't. It's that simple.: Hugh Macleod, How To Be Creative: 25. You have to find your own schtick., 08-22-04
Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.: Jimmy Wales, Keynote Speech, SXSW 2006
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In this new, hyper competitive age, none of us, none of us can afford to be complacent.: Barack Obama (1961 - ), Arizona State Commencement Speech, 2009
That's just the way things go. We meet people, get to know them and then they get up and leave us behind.: Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.: Nelson Mandela (1918 - )
There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
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Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.: Stephen Vizinczey, An Innocent Millionaire
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Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.: Will Cuppy
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Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.: Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.: Wayne Gretzky (1961 - )
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.: Jack Layton, Letter to Canada, 08-20-2011
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.: Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929)
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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.: Norman Douglas, South Wind, 1917
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Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.: Muriel Spark (1918 - )
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.: Frank A. Clark
Home is where the heart is, so your real home's in your chest.: Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon, Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, 2008
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), 'Narcotics and Dissecting Knives,' Thoughts and Meditations, 1960