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- Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
- Jewish Proverb
- Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865), in a letter to J. M. Cutts, October 26, 1863
- Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
- A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
- Dan Rather (1931 - )
- It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
- Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
- Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
- Mario Puzo (1920 - 1999), 'The Godfather'
- When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
- It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
- D. H. Lawrence (1885 - 1930)
- Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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