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A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time.: Alfred E. Wiggam
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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.: James Branch Cabell (1879 - 1958), The Silver Stallion, 1926
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I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble.: John Wayne (1907 - 1979)
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?: Rose Kennedy (1890 - 1995)
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What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.: George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
An affirmation is a strong, positive statement that something is already so.: Shakti Gawain
The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man...only five hundred.: Meredith Willson, The Music Man
Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger.: Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive, 08-23-11
The secret of all success is to know how to deny yourself. Prove that you can control yourself, and you are an educated man; and without this all other education is good for nothing.: R. D. Hitchcock
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Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.: John Lancaster Spalding
Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.: Frank Dane
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There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.: Jay Leno (1950 - ), O Magazine, February 2003
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.: Baltasar Gracian
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There's an evolutionary imperative why we give a crap about our family and friends. And there's an evolutionary imperative why we don't give a crap about anybody else. If we loved all people indiscriminately, we couldn't function.: David Foster, House M.D., TB or Not TB, 2005
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.: Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.: John Kenneth Galbraith (1908 - 2006)
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Actions lie louder than words.: Carolyn Wells
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.: Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content, 11-14-08
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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.: Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), Taxation No Tyranny