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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.: Mother Teresa (1910 - 1997)
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.: H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)
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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.: Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
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The palest ink is better than the best memory.: Chinese Proverb
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The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.: Robert Fulghum (1937 - ), It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.: Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 'Christian Morals,' 1716
Strive for excellence, not perfection.: H. Jackson Brown Jr., O Magazine, December 2003
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Everything has got a moral if you can only find it.: Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898)
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.: George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.: Larry McMurtry (1936 - ), 'Lonesome Dove'
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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.: George Carlin (1937 - 2008)
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.: Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…?: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.: Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?': Don Marquis (1878 - 1937)
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I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.: Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.: Henrik Tikkanen
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Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.: Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
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We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.: Tom Clancy (1947 - )