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The past is finished. There is nothing to b gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.: Rebecca Beard
Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.: Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
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A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.: R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.: Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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Ask not what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive... then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.: Howard Thurman
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.: Jarvis Klem
We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.: Randy K. Milholland, Midnight Macabre, 10-18-05
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You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.: Robert J. Sawyer (1960 - ), "Calculating God", 2000
We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.: John Mason Brown (1900 - 1969), drama critic
A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.: Joseph F. Newton
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What's another word for Thesaurus?: Steven Wright (1955 - )
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.: John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.: Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998
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Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.: Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.: Alan Patrick Herbert
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The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.: Herbert Agar
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