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If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.: C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), Mere Christianity
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.: Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.: Ethel Mumford
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If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.: Dean Martin
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Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.: Henry George (1839 - 1897)
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In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.: Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
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Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.: Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Time Enough For Love
Indecision may or may not be my problem.: Jimmy Buffett
Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.: John Kord Lagemann
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.: Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), The Song of the Lark, 1915
Our lives teach us who we are.: Salman Rushdie (1947 - )
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.: Kurdish Proverb
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Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better.: Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)
Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.: John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
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If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.: Ausonius
Isn't it good just to be alive on a day like this? I pity the people who aren't born yet for missing it.: L. M. Montgomery (1874 - 1942), Anne of Green Gables, 1908
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Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.: Jim Hightower, The New York Times, March 9, 1986
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Nothing ever goes away.: Barry Commoner (1917 - )
A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp.: Joan Rivers (1935 - )
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