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Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.: Jim Bishop
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.: Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.: Jef Mallett, Frazz, 08-01-05
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When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.: George C. Marshall (1880 - 1959)
Everyone has his burden; what counts is how you carry it.: Joe Brown and David Brown
A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind.: Lois McMaster Bujold, "The Vor Game", 1990
You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.: Larry Page, University of Michigan Commencement Address, 2009
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You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.: Frank Crane
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You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.: Rodney Carrington
We hold in our hands, the most precious gift of all: Freedom. The freedom to express our art. Our love. The freedom to be who we want to be. We are not going to give that freedom away and no one shall take it from us!: Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely, 1992
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Life is just one damned thing after another.: Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.: Will Durant (1885 - 1981)
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.: Anonymous
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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.: Solomon Short
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Silence is more musical than any song.: Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)
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No one can earn a million dollars honestly.: William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)
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When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.: Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
Don't reserve your best behavior for special occasions. You can't have two sets of manners, two social codes - one for those you admire and want to impress, another for those whom you consider unimportant. You must be the same to all people.: Lillian Eichler Watson
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Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.: Joseph P. Thompson